Clera
Founding Engineer
About this role
Join a pre-seed AI startup as Engineer #4 to build fully agentic systems that automate complex workflows. You'll own entire product areas end-to-end, shipping features daily while working directly with the CTO and founding team in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment.
What you'll do
- Ship production features on a daily cadence
- Own complete product areas from concept through deployment
- Design and build REST APIs on the backend
- Build scalable frontend interfaces using React
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities via providers like OpenAI or Claude
- Collaborate with CTO on technical direction and architecture
What they're looking for
- Full-stack development (TypeScript/JavaScript and Python)
- Node.js backend development
- REST API design and consumption
- React frontend development
- PostgreSQL and Supabase
- AI/ML provider integration
- Startup mentality and rapid shipping
- Cross-functional communication
Benefits
- Founding team position with high ownership
- On-site hackerhouse/office environment in San Francisco
- Visa sponsorship available
- Work on technically challenging AI automation problems
- Direct collaboration with CTO
- Early-stage equity opportunity
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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 full-stack feature you've built end-to-end—from backend API design to React frontend. How did you approach data modeling and what challenges did you face?
- Tell us about a time you integrated an AI/ML API (like OpenAI or Claude) into a production system. What were the technical hurdles and how did you solve them?