Clera
Product Engineer (Software Engineer)
About this role
Full-stack product engineer at an early-stage fintech startup building consumer financial tools. You'll own features end-to-end across frontend and backend, ship frequently to production, and directly impact users' financial lives through cash advances, paycheck bridging, and credit-building products.
What you'll do
- Build full-stack product features including domain models, business logic, and third-party API integrations
- Drive data-informed, incremental product releases using SQL and analytics tools to measure impact
- Design and debug event-driven backend systems with message queues to ensure reliable user experiences
- Ship to production daily via CI/CD pipelines and respond to production incidents
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and business leaders on high-impact feature prioritization
- Own implementations end-to-end from design through deployment and monitoring
What they're looking for
- Backend development (3+ years production experience)
- RESTful API design and consumption with auth/authorization patterns
- Event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with data modeling and query optimization
- SQL and analytics tools for performance evaluation
- CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automated testing
- Go/Golang and GCP (preferred)
- System design and computer science fundamentals
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship available
- On-site work in San Francisco
- Direct impact on consumer financial products
- Early-stage startup environment with rapid iteration
- Ownership of end-to-end feature delivery
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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 backend feature you built end-to-end in production—what was the domain model and how did you ensure data consistency?
- Describe your experience designing or consuming RESTful APIs. How have you handled authentication, authorization, and rate limiting?