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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$150k–$250kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join an early-stage B2B SaaS startup as the first engineering hire to build an agentic integration platform. You'll own core systems end-to-end, define engineering standards, and work directly with founders to deliver production-ready software for paying enterprise customers.

What you'll do

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end
  • Define engineering standards and architectural patterns for future team members
  • Collaborate with founders on technical strategy and decision-making
  • Ship production systems consistently with strong observability and reliability
  • Build and maintain distributed systems with robust retry and queuing patterns
  • Implement end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript (full-stack)
  • React
  • Node.js
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • LLM and agent-based platforms
  • Observability and monitoring
  • Distributed systems design

Benefits

  • Equity as founding engineer
  • Competitive base salary $150K–$250K
  • Visa sponsorship (O-1 visa path)
  • Direct impact on product direction
  • Working with paying enterprise customers
  • On-site collaborative environment
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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

  • Describe a zero-to-one project you built—what was your biggest technical decision and why?
  • How have you designed observability and monitoring into a production system, and what surprised you?