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 production systems, preferably in startups
  • Proven track record of developing a product from inception to launch
  • Strong skills in TypeScript and React for front-end development
  • Strong skills in Node.js for back-end development
  • Experience with large language models and agent-based platforms
  • Familiarity with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for database management
  • Demonstrated experience in end-to-end feature development within various components of systems

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform and its integrations end-to-end
  • Define engineering patterns and standards for future team members
  • Work closely with founders, providing technical insights and leadership
  • Continuously deliver reliable and observable systems to production
  • Ensure measurable impacts on customer experience through technology

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • On-site position in San Francisco, California
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a first engineering hire opportunity at an early-stage agentic integration platform serving paying enterprise customers. You'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire will build on - working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-ready software.
What You'll Do
  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
  • Establish engineering patterns and standards that will guide the team as it scales.
  • Collaborate directly with founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership - not just code.
  • Ship to production continuously, delivering observable and reliable systems with measurable customer impact.
What We're Looking For
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in fast-paced startup environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to take a product from 0 to 1, whether in an early-stage startup or a substantial side project.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for front-end development.
  • Proficiency in Node.js for back-end development.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
  • Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.
  • Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 - $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

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