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Clera

Founding Frontend Engineer

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About this role

Join a pre-seed AI-powered talent acquisition startup as the first founding frontend engineer. You'll own all frontend development, build consumer-facing interfaces, and collaborate closely with founders to shape the product roadmap from the ground up.

What you'll do

  • Lead frontend architecture and establish engineering standards early
  • Build polished, intuitive consumer interfaces with seamless user experience
  • Collaborate with design and product to translate concepts into production-ready UI
  • Leverage AI-assisted coding tools to ship features quickly and reliably
  • Contribute to product strategy and roadmap decisions
  • Mentor and grow the frontend team as the company scales

What they're looking for

  • Frontend development (3–5 years B2C experience)
  • User-facing feature shipping and product sense
  • Figma design collaboration
  • AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, or similar)
  • Architecture and engineering standards design
  • Consumer product development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • UI/UX implementation

Benefits

  • Founding team equity and meaningful ownership stake
  • Direct impact on product strategy from day one
  • Hybrid work in San Francisco with flexibility
  • Early-stage startup environment with high autonomy
  • Leadership opportunity to build and mentor engineering team
  • Close collaboration with founders
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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 B2C product feature you shipped end-to-end and the impact it had on users.
  • How do you approach establishing frontend architecture and standards when building from scratch?
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