Founding Engineer

Posted:
7/31/2026, 1:25:26 PM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$150k–$250k/yr

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.

Clera

Website: https://www.getclera.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 1-10

Year Founded: 2025

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Pre-Seed

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