Clera
Founding Engineer
About this role
Join a YC-backed enterprise AI startup as a Founding Engineer to build agentic systems at scale. You'll own full-stack development across backend (Go), frontend (React/TypeScript), and AI infrastructure, working autonomously to ship products that solve real enterprise problems.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize agentic systems for accuracy, reliability, and enterprise-scale deployment
- Own features end-to-end from user research through production, with minimal guidance
- Build full-stack services using Go backend and React/TypeScript frontend
- Engage with users to understand pain points and scope valuable product solutions
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring systems
- Champion AI-first development practices and code quality across the team
What they're looking for
- Go (Golang) backend development
- React and TypeScript frontend development
- Agentic systems and LLM engineering
- REST/gRPC APIs and microservices architecture
- CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment workflows
- Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and Docker/Kubernetes
- Relational and NoSQL database design
- Full-stack product thinking and rapid iteration
Benefits
- Salary: $120,000–$250,000 USD annually
- Generous equity with outsized founding-level impact
- Unlimited AI tooling budget
- Direct influence on product direction and company strategy
- Work with proven product-market fit and rapidly growing revenue
- On-site collaboration in San Francisco with high-output founding 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 production Go backend service you built end-to-end. What were the key architectural decisions, and how did you handle scaling or reliability challenges?
- Describe your experience building agentic AI systems or working with LLMs in production. What's one challenge you solved around agent reliability or accuracy?