Clera
Founding Full-Stack iOS Engineer
About this role
A Y Combinator-backed wearable AI startup seeks a founding iOS engineer to build and own the companion mobile app that surfaces real-time emotional and cognitive insights from proprietary AI models. You'll be the primary builder of the consumer-facing experience, working autonomously on a distributed team with significant equity upside and a clear path to lead mobile engineering.
What you'll do
- Own the iOS app architecture, development, and deployment end-to-end
- Translate proprietary AI model outputs into intuitive, polished user interfaces
- Integrate backend APIs for authentication, data synchronization, and data models
- Set technical patterns and standards for the mobile codebase as a founding engineer
- Ship consumer-grade features with attention to performance and design quality
- Collaborate asynchronously across distributed teams in London and San Francisco
What they're looking for
- Swift and iOS development (3+ years production experience)
- Full-stack mobile development with backend API integration
- Shipping end-to-end consumer mobile features
- Integrating machine learning model outputs into app UX
- Consumer-grade UI/UX design and performance optimization
- Autonomous architectural decision-making
- Remote and asynchronous collaboration
- Data-driven product thinking
Benefits
- Meaningful founding-team equity (1–2%)
- Clear path to lead mobile engineering function
- High autonomy and ownership of core product
- Hybrid and remote work flexibility
- Y Combinator-backed seed-stage company
- Distributed team with global presence
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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
- Walk us through an iOS app you shipped end-to-end—what was your role, and what were the biggest technical decisions you made?
- Describe your experience integrating machine learning model outputs or AI inferences into a mobile app. How did you surface complex model data through intuitive UI?