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Founding Engineer

Clera
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 20 days
Location

San Francisco, CA, US

Salary

$150,000 - $250,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The role is for the first engineering hire at a seed-stage startup focused on building an integration platform for enterprise customers.
  • Candidates must have at least 3 years of software engineering experience and a proven ability to build products from the ground up.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, as well as experience with AWS and PostgreSQL, are required for this position.
  • The salary range for this role is between $150,000 and $250,000 annually, depending on experience.
  • This on-site position is based in San Francisco, CA, and visa sponsorship is available.

About the Role

We're a seed-stage startup building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. We're looking for our first engineering hire — someone who will own core systems end-to-end, set the engineering patterns that every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship production-ready software every day.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, loves building from zero to one, and wants their technical fingerprints on the entire stack.

What You'll Do

  • Own core systems end-to-end: agent platform, infrastructure, and the integrations runtime.

  • Define and establish the engineering patterns and standards that every future hire will build upon.

  • Work directly with the founders — your opinions and technical leadership matter as much as your code.

  • Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable, and well-instrumented systems.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves (dealbreakers):

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.

  • Proven ability to build something 0 to 1 — in an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend development.

  • Proficiency in Node.js for backend development.

  • Hands-on experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

Required skills:

  • Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure.

  • Experience with PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.

  • Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.

  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing in production systems.

  • Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.

Nice to have:

  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.

  • Experience setting engineering patterns and standards for growing teams.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience.

  • Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

  • On-site in San Francisco, CA.

  • This is not a remote role.




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