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Clera

Founding Engineer (Full-Stack)

San Francisco$175k–$200kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join this Y Combinator-backed AI marketing automation startup as a Founding Engineer, taking full ownership of full-stack feature development. You'll architect and ship critical backend and frontend systems across Node.js/TypeScript, Vue.js/Nuxt, PostgreSQL, and AI/LLM integrations in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

What you'll do

  • Own complete feature development cycles from architecture and design through deployment and iteration
  • Build and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, including event-driven workflows with Inngest
  • Develop responsive frontend experiences with Vue.js and Nuxt
  • Design PostgreSQL schemas via Supabase with focus on data integrity and performance
  • Integrate AI/LLM capabilities using LangGraph and APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google
  • Manage deployments on Render and Microsoft Azure, and collaborate directly with customers and operations

What they're looking for

  • TypeScript and Node.js backend development
  • PostgreSQL and relational database design
  • Vue.js and Nuxt frontend development
  • Full-stack feature ownership and project delivery
  • Inngest and event-driven architecture
  • LLM/AI API integration
  • Render and Microsoft Azure deployment
  • Serverless workflows and cloud infrastructure

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity
  • Competitive salary ($175,000–$200,000)
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • High autonomy and direct customer impact
  • Relocation support for qualified candidates
  • Founding team experience and engineering culture influence
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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

  • Walk us through a full-stack feature you owned from concept to production—what challenges did you face and how did you solve them?
  • Describe your experience designing PostgreSQL schemas for performance and data integrity at scale.
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