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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-2f7a3702-55ec-4e42-9694-df1b83e97fbd"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/ecadffa5-8a75-4c16-a21a-de8aa38a1150"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "azure", "gcp", "kotlin", "llm", "nextjs", "postgres", "react"]
date_posted: 2026-09-16T17:32:33.645Z
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/ecadffa5-8a75-4c16-a21a-de8aa38a1150

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

You'll be the second engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI agents for the industrial ingredient manufacturing industry, a sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars that underpins the global food supply. Working directly alongside the founding team, you'll have broad ownership across the full stack and a direct hand in every major product decision the company makes.

##### What You'll Do

- Build backend systems that ingest and process messy real-world documents from customer ERPs and inboxes, including large-scale PDF pipelines.

- Develop LLM-powered agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents end to end.

- Own features across the entire stack, from backend services through to the UI, picking up whatever the company needs next.

- Ship fast and iterate directly on real user feedback rather than prolonged architecture debate.

##### What We're Looking For

- A track record of shipping products or major features that real users actively used, with the ability to articulate tradeoffs and lessons learned.

- Full-stack range: comfortable taking a feature from backend service through to the UI without waiting for a specialist.

- Production experience with LLM-powered features or agents (not just prototypes or demos), ideally integrating multiple model providers.

- Strong backend engineering skills: services that ingest and process unstructured real-world data, plus solid relational schema design (Postgres or equivalent).

- Experience with or ability to ramp quickly on Kotlin and Spring Boot, React and Next.js, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

- Document processing, PDF parsing, or unstructured data extraction experience is a strong plus.

- Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience, or a demonstrated appetite for the ambiguity and ownership that comes with it.

- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco, this role is fully on-site five days a week.

- No degree or years-of-experience requirement; what you have built and how you think matters most.

##### Compensation & Benefits

**Base salary:** $200,000 to $300,000 annually. **Equity:** 0.5% to 2%. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

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

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