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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$120k–$190kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join an early-stage startup as a Founding Engineer to build AI-powered billing automation software for emergency medical services. You'll own end-to-end development, work directly with customers, and shape the product and engineering culture from the ground up.

What you'll do

  • Own full-stack development including architecture, deployment, and on-call responsibility
  • Build and ship customer-facing features based on direct conversations with EMS operations leaders and billers
  • Develop automation systems that reduce manual work and improve financial outcomes for agencies
  • Make product and design tradeoffs with strong UX sensibility
  • Deploy features rapidly, gather customer feedback, and iterate continuously
  • Collaborate closely with the founding team in-person 2–3 days per week in San Francisco

What they're looking for

  • React and frontend development with strong UX sensibilities
  • Full-stack product development and end-to-end feature delivery
  • LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
  • API integration and backend development
  • Go, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud (preferred)
  • Customer needs translation and technical scoping
  • Computer science fundamentals and attention to detail
  • Clear communication and rapid learning ability

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity participation
  • Opportunity to shape technical direction and company culture from day one
  • Hybrid work arrangement with 2–3 days per week in-person in San Francisco
  • Direct customer impact in healthcare/public safety sector
  • Ownership of meaningful technical projects
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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

  • Can you walk us through a full-stack feature you shipped end-to-end? What was your process from understanding the customer need to deployment?
  • Tell us about your experience with RAG architectures and LLMs—what projects have you built and what did you learn?