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Clera

Founding Frontend Engineer

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About this role

Join an early-stage AI talent acquisition startup as their first founding frontend engineer, building a consumer-facing product that uses AI to connect candidates with opportunities. You'll own the full frontend architecture, work directly with design and product, and help establish engineering practices from the ground up.

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end frontend architecture and development of the core consumer product
  • Translate Figma designs into polished, performant UI experiences in close collaboration with design and product
  • Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality
  • Establish frontend best practices, tooling, and processes as a founding team member
  • Contribute to product decisions that shape what the team builds and prioritizes
  • Work in an iterative, fast-paced environment directly impacting user experience

What they're looking for

  • Frontend development (3–5 years)
  • B2C/consumer product experience (2+ years)
  • Figma design-to-code workflow
  • AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
  • Modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
  • UI/UX implementation and performance optimization
  • Product thinking and collaboration
  • Early-stage startup experience (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Founding team equity and early-stage upside
  • Direct impact on product direction and company culture
  • High ownership and autonomy in shaping the frontend
  • Hybrid work arrangement (San Francisco-based, occasional travel to LA/NYC)
  • Opportunity to establish best practices and engineering culture
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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 B2C product you built where you had high ownership—what was your biggest design or UX challenge and how did you solve it?
  • How have you used AI coding tools in production, and what's your approach to maintaining code quality when relying on them?
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