Founding Engineer

Clera

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

Qualifications

  • 3 to 9 years of software engineering experience, ideally in early-stage startups.
  • Proficient in TypeScript and React for frontend development.
  • Skilled in Node.js for backend development.
  • Experience with large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
  • Familiar with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for database design.
  • Proven track record of end-to-end feature development with measurable customer impact.
  • Strong academic background in computer science or engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
  • Define and establish engineering patterns and standards for the team.
  • Collaborate with founders, providing technical leadership and opinions.
  • Ship reliable and observable production systems consistently.
  • Contribute to the development of workflows around agent-based platforms.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates.
  • Opportunity to shape engineering practices from the ground up.
  • Work directly with founders in a collaborative environment.
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. You will own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire will build on, working directly alongside the founders.
What You'll Do
  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
  • Define and establish engineering patterns and standards that the growing team will build on.
  • Collaborate directly with the founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership, not just code.
  • Ship reliable, observable production systems consistently and at pace.
What We're Looking For
  • 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably at early-stage startups or with a strong track record of 0-to-1 building.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend development.
  • Proficiency in Node.js for backend 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.
  • Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • A broad software engineering background rather than a narrow ML research or single-domain specialisation.
  • Strong academic foundation in computer science or engineering, or comparably strong demonstrated achievement.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area for on-site work.
Compensation & Benefits

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

On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, California, United States. Candidates must be based locally or have a concrete relocation plan.

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