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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-313079c5-1c29-4bee-b941-7893de6a9991"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/566aa581-8ada-4bc8-8893-acfac6f94f0c"
workplace: remote
location: "New York"
remote_scope: "New York"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "dbt", "llm", "postgres", "python", "react", "sql", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-15T17:19:26.656Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T17:50:31.424Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · New York

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/566aa581-8ada-4bc8-8893-acfac6f94f0c

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage AI fintech startup building an AI-native financial research platform for professional investors in the healthcare sector. You will be one of the first engineers on a three-person team, owning infrastructure, agentic systems, and the full stack end to end. Your work will directly shape how the product is built and how reliably it serves institutional investors.

##### What You'll Do

- Ship across the full stack: frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.

- Build data pipelines and internal tools that let analysts add new sources and maintain sector coverage faster and more reliably.

- Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems, making AI agents more capable and dependable in production.

- Own work end to end: inspecting data, QA, instrumentation, shipping, and fixing issues in production.

- In your first 30 days: integrate a new data source, improve system speed or reliability, build a company ontology, and ship the first version of a core product module.

##### What We're Looking For

- 2 to 7 years of professional experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production.

- Full-stack capability: Python backend (FastAPI or equivalent), TypeScript, and React frontend.

- Data infrastructure and pipeline development: ETL, data modeling, and SQL.

- Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL or a similar relational database.

- Production observability, monitoring, and debugging of distributed systems.

- AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment experience.

- Experience with real-time data systems and streaming updates.

- Strong judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic logic is the right call.

- Deep ownership mentality and comfort with ambiguity on a small, fast-moving team.

- US citizenship required; no visa sponsorship available.

- Bonus: capital markets, equity research, or broader financial services domain experience.

- Bonus: familiarity with modern data tools such as dbt, columnar stores, or vector databases.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: **$156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.** No visa sponsorship available.

##### Location

On-site in **New York City, NY**, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.

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