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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-3d6f52db-158b-49fb-88e3-0450f918093a"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/011642f9-4c40-4f9c-807b-43e8f4d8384a"
workplace: onsite
location: "Berlin"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: europe
skills: ["llm", "nodejs", "python", "react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-13T17:23:27.535Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:36.640Z
---

# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · Berlin

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/011642f9-4c40-4f9c-807b-43e8f4d8384a

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding-level engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building purpose-built automation for the sea and air freight industry. You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success, helping take the product from demo-stage to a scalable, production-ready system that freight forwarders rely on daily. Your work will directly shape the company's technical and product direction from the ground up.

##### What You'll Do

- Lead customer conversations and translate insights into concrete product features and technical strategy.

- Design, build, and ship full-stack applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Python.

- Push the AI capabilities of the product forward, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

- Transition the product from prototype and demo mode into a scalable, high-quality production system.

- Contribute to shaping the product roadmap, architecture decisions, and overall company direction.

##### What We're Looking For

- 2 or more years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.

- Full-stack development skills: Node.js, TypeScript, and React on the frontend; Python on the backend.

- Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

- Experience designing and deploying scalable products from MVP through to production.

- Comfort leading customer conversations and turning feedback into clear product requirements.

- Strong system-design ability, including reasoning about scope, constraints, and trade-offs in a startup context.

- Experience in startup or early-stage environments, with a bias toward pragmatic, startup-appropriate architecture decisions.

- Broad product-engineering range rather than a background concentrated in a single discipline such as ML, data, or frontend.

- Bonus: experience with vector databases, semantic search, or transitioning products from prototype to production.

##### Location

Hybrid from Berlin, Germany. Visa sponsorship is available.

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