Clera
Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)
About this role
Join Clera as engineer #4 to build AI-powered recruiting automation that disrupts a $600B industry. You'll have full ownership of product areas, ship to production daily, and work alongside experienced founders in a SF hackerhouse with $3M pre-seed funding and paying customers.
What you'll do
- Own entire product features from concept through deployment with direct impact on product direction
- Build agentic AI systems that automate complex recruiting workflows end-to-end
- Ship production code daily and iterate rapidly based on customer feedback
- Collaborate closely with CTO and founding engineering team on technical strategy
- Scale systems from early-stage to handle thousands of weekly user engagements
- Transition code from rapid prototyping to production-grade quality as needed
What they're looking for
- TypeScript and React
- AI/LLM API integration and implementation
- AI-assisted coding with tools like Cursor
- Full-stack development and system design
- Startup mentality with high agency and resourcefulness
- Customer-focused iteration and feedback incorporation
- Database and backend technologies (Supabase, Prisma, Typesense)
Benefits
- Meaningful equity stake in fast-growing startup
- Competitive salary with significant equity package
- Live and work in SF hackerhouse with zero commute
- True ownership with no micromanagement
- Visa support available
- 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 recent project where you built and shipped a feature end-to-end. How did you decide what to build first, and how quickly did you get it to production?
- Tell us about your experience working with LLM APIs and AI-powered features. What's a project where you've integrated AI into a product, and what challenges did you face?