Founding Engineer
at Clera · 1-10 employees
Seed · $3M · Apr 2026
- Work model
- Onsite
- Employment
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco
- Posted
- 5d ago
typescriptreactnode.jspostgresawskubernetes
at Clera · 1-10 employees
Clera is a talent-matching platform that replaces traditional job applications by connecting candidates and hiring teams through curated introductions.
ABOUT THE ROLE We're a seed-stage startup building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. As our first engineering hire, you'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire builds on. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders — we want your opinion, not just your code — and ship production-ready systems from day one. This is a rare opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a company at its earliest stage, in one of the most exciting areas of software: AI agents and workflow automation. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end. - Define and establish the engineering patterns, standards, and architecture that every future engineer builds on. - Collaborate directly with the founders, contributing strong technical opinions and leadership. - Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable, and scalable systems. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Must-haves: - 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred. - Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend development. - Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 — whether at an early-stage startup or through a serious side project. - Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms. - Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact. - Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems. - Hands-on experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage. Nice to have: - Familiarity with Bun, Effect-TS, or Kubernetes. - Background at a high-growth product company or enterprise SaaS environment. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience. - Equity participation as the first engineering hire. - Visa sponsorship available. LOCATION This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. We work together in person — it's important to us at this stage of the company.