Founding Engineer

Clera

$140K — $220K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on full-stack development experience
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, Next.js, and Python
  • Experience with AI agent development and evaluation frameworks
  • Deployment and management experience on Google Cloud Platform
  • Familiarity with legacy systems and third-party integrations
  • Strong customer interaction skills for understanding business needs
  • Experience in early-stage startups with rapid iteration cycles

Responsibilities

  • Engage directly with customers to identify and understand their workflows
  • Develop full-stack solutions, including customer features and integrations
  • Enhance implementation processes to improve efficiency and reliability
  • Deliver a production feature to a customer within the first week
  • Design and implement a feature based on customer feedback within your first month
  • Take ownership of a significant product area within the first quarter

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Collaborative environment working directly with founders
  • Opportunity to shape product development from the ground up
  • Fast-paced work environment that encourages rapid skill development
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered workflow automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll work directly alongside the founders, owning problems end to end - from understanding customer workflows to designing, building, and shipping production features.
What You'll Do
  • Talk directly with customers to understand their workflows and surface the right problems to solve.
  • Build across the full stack: customer-facing features, AI agents, third-party integrations, and infrastructure.
  • Improve the evals, tests, and tooling that make each new customer implementation faster and more reliable.
  • Ship your first feature to a live customer within your first week.
  • Design and implement a customer-driven feature end to end within your first month.
  • Own a meaningful surface area of the product, end to end, within your first quarter.
What We're Looking For
  • Hands-on full-stack development experience shipping production web applications with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python.
  • Demonstrated experience building production-ready AI agents, including context engineering, tool design, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience integrating with legacy systems, APIs, and third-party software platforms (ERP/CRM experience is a plus).
  • Comfort conducting customer discovery and translating business problems into technical solutions.
  • Experience building and maintaining automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling for production systems.
  • Prior experience in early-stage startup environments with small teams and rapid iteration cycles.
  • Familiarity with LLM frameworks, prompt engineering, or AI agent orchestration tools is a strong plus.
  • Background in B2B operations automation or enterprise software integration is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $140,000 - $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA.

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