Clera
Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)
About this role
Join Clera as engineer #4 to build AI-powered recruiting automation that's transforming how talent finds jobs. You'll own entire product areas, ship daily, and help scale a $3M pre-seed startup with proven traction and paying customers.
What you'll do
- Ship features to production daily and own complete product areas from concept to deployment
- Build fully agentic systems that automate complex recruiting workflows
- Collaborate directly with the CTO and founding engineering team on product direction
- Engage with customers to iterate on products based on feedback
- Scale systems as the product grows from early traction to larger deployment
What they're looking for
- TypeScript and React
- AI-assisted coding (Cursor experience preferred)
- LLM API integration
- Full-stack development
- Startup mentality with high agency and resourcefulness
- Fast prototyping and iteration
- Customer-focused product thinking
Benefits
- Meaningful equity stake in early-stage startup
- Direct impact on product strategy and company direction
- Live and work in SF hackerhouse with founding team
- Visa sponsorship support
- Competitive salary plus significant equity
- Work with experienced founders and A-player team
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a project where you shipped features to production quickly in an early-stage startup. How did you balance speed with code quality?
- Tell us about your experience working with LLM APIs and AI-assisted coding tools like Cursor. How has it changed your development workflow?