Founding Engineer

Clera

$150K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend.
  • Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 in early-stage startups or through serious side projects.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS (cloud infrastructure) and PostgreSQL (data storage).
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • Track record of owning features across the full stack - frontend, backend, and infra, with measurable customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
  • Establish engineering patterns, conventions, and architecture decisions for team operations as it scales.
  • Partner directly with the founders, contributing valuable technical opinions alongside coding.
  • Ship to production constantly, focusing on building observable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Drive end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure to achieve measurable customer impact.

Benefits

  • Equity participation as a founding team member
  • Visa sponsorship available
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're a small, fast-moving team building an agentic integration platform for the physical economy - helping supply chain businesses connect their ERP, WMS, OMS, TMS, EDI, and logistics systems in hours instead of months. Our AI-generated integration platform is already serving paying enterprise customers, and we're now bringing on our first engineering hire.

This is a true founding engineer role: you'll own core systems end-to-end, set the technical patterns every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-grade software every day.
What You'll Do
  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
  • Establish engineering patterns, conventions, and architecture decisions that will define how the team operates as it scales.
  • Partner directly with the founders - your technical opinion matters as much as your code.
  • Ship to production constantly, building observable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Drive end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.
What We're Looking For

Must-haves:
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend.
  • Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 - whether at an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS (cloud infrastructure) and PostgreSQL (data storage).
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • Track record of owning features across the full stack - frontend, backend, and infra - with measurable customer outcomes.

Nice to have:
  • Familiarity with Bun, Effect-TS, or Kubernetes.
  • Background in supply chain, logistics, or enterprise SaaS integrations.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $150,000 - $250,000 USD annually (depending on experience)
  • Equity participation as a founding team member
  • Visa sponsorship available
Location
  • On-site in San Francisco, CA
  • This is an in-person role - we work together closely as a small team

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