Clera
Founding Product Engineer
About this role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS startup as a founding product engineer to design and ship end-to-end AI-driven pricing and monetization platform modules. You'll work across full-stack architecture, React UIs, and agentic AI systems while partnering directly with customers and leadership to build financial-grade software.
What you'll do
- Own entire product modules from design through deployment, including versioned APIs and React frontends
- Design agentic AI systems spanning Slack bots, terminal interfaces, web surfaces, and vendor integrations
- Architect backend services and pricing ontologies using Pydantic to enforce financial correctness
- Build MCP/FastMCP servers enabling LLM agents to operate features via conversational interfaces
- Lead architectural reviews and establish testing, observability, and deployment practices
- Mentor peers, influence product strategy, and drive engineering culture at an early-stage company
What they're looking for
- FastAPI and Python backend development
- MongoDB (or comparable database)
- React and TypeScript UI development
- REST/GraphQL API design and versioning
- LLM agents, tool-use, and MCP integration
- B2B SaaS monetization and pricing concepts
- Financial logic correctness and production debugging
- Full-stack product ownership in ambiguous environments
Benefits
- Equity participation at founding-team level
- Direct influence on product strategy and architecture
- Work on AI-native development practices and tooling
- Mentor and leadership opportunities from day one
- On-site collaboration in San Francisco with early team
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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 a product module you owned end-to-end; how did you handle the ambiguity between technical feasibility and customer needs?
- Describe your experience building financial or monetization logic in production. How do you ensure correctness?