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title: "Founding Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-251d426d-3ac4-410a-80bc-3873c3794bdb"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/ea2cac82-39af-4d7f-a4ff-e2bff74c588c"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "llm", "nodejs", "postgres", "react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-16T17:30:03.829Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-16T17:35:43.364Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/ea2cac82-39af-4d7f-a4ff-e2bff74c588c

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building an agentic integration platform with paying enterprise customers. You will own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns every future hire builds on, working directly with the founders to ship production-ready software.

##### What You'll Do

- Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.

- Define the engineering standards and architectural patterns the growing team will inherit.

- Collaborate closely with the founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership, not just code.

- Ship to production consistently, delivering reliable and observable systems with measurable customer impact.

##### What We're Looking For

- 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.

- Demonstrated ability to build something from zero to one, in an early-stage startup or a serious side project.

- Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

- Proficiency in TypeScript for full-stack development, React for frontend, and Node.js for backend.

- Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.

- Track record of owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and tracing in production systems.

- Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.

- Strong computer science or engineering fundamentals, ideally from a rigorous academic background.

- Background at an early-stage, venture-backed startup, or comparable fast-paced environment.

- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.

##### Location

On-site, five days a week in **San Francisco, California, United States.**

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