Clera
Founding Engineer
About this role
Join an early-stage startup as a Founding Engineer to build core product infrastructure from scratch. You'll work directly with founders on architectural decisions, full-stack development, and establishing engineering practices as the team scales.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable systems and product features as an early engineering hire
- Collaborate with founders to translate product vision into production code
- Make foundational architectural and technical direction decisions
- Own the full development lifecycle from scoping through deployment and iteration
- Establish engineering culture, best practices, and processes as the team grows
- Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to ship reliable features
What they're looking for
- Full-stack or backend engineering
- System architecture and software design
- Scalable systems development
- Engineering best practices
- Ability to operate with ambiguity
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Rapid prototyping and iteration
- Communication and leadership
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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.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you made a foundational architectural decision early in a project—what was your reasoning and how did it scale?
- How do you approach operating in ambiguous environments with competing priorities?