Founding Engineer (Full Stack)

Clera

$120K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience shipping dependable systems in production environments.
  • Strong engineering judgment for ship readiness and minimizing technical debt.
  • Hands-on experience with large language model systems and scaling challenges.
  • Full-stack proficiency, capable of addressing complex problems across various layers.
  • Proactive ownership mindset, tackling issues without needing direction.
  • Pragmatic approach to technology selection based on problem requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end solutions across LLM orchestration, conversation flow, and infrastructure.
  • Debug production issues swiftly from conversation logs to deployment errors.
  • Design and prototype new features with minimal documentation.
  • Build and maintain essential technical components like orchestration and APIs.
  • Create evaluation metrics to assess system quality and inform product improvements.
  • Address a wide range of tasks including frontend bugs and database migrations.

Benefits

  • Remote or onsite work options available for flexibility.
  • Opportunity to be a founding engineer shaping the technical culture.
  • Significant autonomy and ownership of projects.
  • Involvement in all stages of development from debugging to design.
Full Job Description
About the Role

You'll be one of the first two founding engineers setting the technical culture for a fast-growing team. The company has seen rapid growth and just closed funding to scale. You'll work across the entire technical stack with significant ownership and autonomy.
What You'll Do
  • Own problems end-to-end across multiple technical domains: LLM orchestration, conversation flow, tool integration, voice, UI, and infrastructure
  • Debug production issues in real-time-from conversation logs to deployment regressions-and ship fixes quickly
  • Design and prototype new features with minimal specification, from generative UI to agent versioning systems
  • Build and maintain the core technical pillars: agent orchestration, embeddable adaptive UI, customer-facing platform, evaluation pipelines, and zero-cold-start infrastructure
  • Write and iterate on evals that measure system quality and feed improvements back into the product
  • Handle the full spectrum of early-stage work: frontend bugs, database migrations, customer debugging, and infrastructure design
What We're Looking For
  • Proven track record shipping systems that real users depend on. You can speak to what actually broke in production and how you fixed it
  • Strong engineering judgment about what's ready to ship versus what needs more work. You move fast without creating hidden technical debt
  • Hands-on experience making LLM systems work at scale. You understand the gap between demo and production, and you know how to close it through design and iteration
  • Comfortable working across the stack-not for the title, but because the hardest problems don't fit into one layer
  • Ability to take ownership without waiting for direction. If something is broken or unclear, you fix it
  • Pragmatic about technology choices. You pick tools based on the problem, not preference
Compensation & Details

Work Arrangement: Full-time, founding-level role
Location

Remote or onsite options available

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