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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$150k–$250kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a seed-stage startup as the first engineering hire to build an agentic integration platform serving enterprise customers. You'll own core systems end-to-end, establish engineering patterns, and collaborate directly with founders to ship production-ready AI agent and workflow automation infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Own agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end
  • Define and establish engineering patterns, standards, and architecture for future hires
  • Collaborate with founders on technical decisions and strategic direction
  • Ship production systems with focus on reliability, observability, and scalability
  • Build end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact
  • Implement monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) and agent platforms
  • Observability and distributed systems patterns
  • End-to-end full-stack development

Benefits

  • Equity participation as first engineering hire
  • Direct collaboration with founders
  • Opportunity to shape technical foundation at seed stage
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • On-site team environment in San Francisco
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you built something from 0 to 1 — what was the biggest technical challenge you faced?
  • Describe your experience integrating with or building around LLMs and agent-based systems. What patterns did you use?
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