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Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco$140k–$180kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join an early-stage legal AI startup as a founding product engineer to build core features that transform how attorneys work. You'll own full-stack development across the entire product, collaborate closely with AI engineers and legal experts, and shape engineering culture from the ground up.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement full-stack product features from database schemas to user interfaces for legal professionals
  • Collaborate with AI engineers and attorneys to translate legal workflows into production software
  • Make architectural and tooling decisions balancing rapid development with long-term maintainability
  • Write production-grade code and take complete ownership of shipped features
  • Help establish engineering standards, culture, and hiring practices as the team grows
  • Drive features to completion with focus on customer experience and reliability

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack development with TypeScript and React
  • Modern backend development and relational databases
  • AI/LLM integration and hands-on experience
  • End-to-end feature ownership and production deployment
  • Pragmatic decision-making under time pressure
  • DevOps, CI/CD, and production monitoring
  • Strong communication and technical judgment
  • Product thinking and entrepreneurial mindset

Benefits

  • Equity stake at early-stage startup
  • Outsized impact on product direction and engineering culture
  • Mentorship from experienced founders and attorneys
  • Fast-paced, high-ownership environment with minimal bureaucracy
  • Legal tech domain expertise development
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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 full-stack feature you owned end-to-end, from conception to production—what were the key technical decisions?
  • Describe your hands-on experience with AI or LLMs. What did you build, and what surprised you?
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