Clera

Founding Engineer

Berlin
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Berlin
Visa
Not offered

Not stated in the posting: salary.

Open. First seen 25 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage team building AI software for enterprise procurement. You will own customer problems from discovery through production while helping shape the technical direction and engineering practices of the company.

What You'll Do

  • Discover customer needs and deliver end-to-end product features across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Build AI-enabled workflows and shared foundations for agent context, tool use, and evaluation.
  • Set architectural direction and make decisions that support performance, security, and developer experience.
  • Review AI-assisted code and improve product quality through frequent releases and user feedback.
  • Contribute to hiring, code review, and the team's engineering practices.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping full-stack production software, with clear evidence of strong engineering ability and ownership.
  • Production experience with TypeScript and Python, including applications built with Next.js; familiarity with React, PostgreSQL or Supabase, and Vercel is relevant.
  • Hands-on experience with production LLM applications, retrieval systems, and embeddings, including trade-offs in latency, cost, and quality.
  • Experience designing reliable LLM workflows with evaluations, guardrails, and observability.
  • Strong frontend, backend, database, API, and infrastructure fundamentals, with experience shipping features frequently.
  • Startup or entrepreneurial product-building experience and the ability to work hands-on in a small team.
  • Experience with real-time data pipelines, data normalization, and enterprise integrations is valuable.
  • Procurement, ERP, or enterprise supply chain experience is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany, working primarily in person with the team.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Next.js · Supabase · Vercel

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 464 open in Engineering. 398 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (196 of 464), LLM (195 of 464), TypeScript (183 of 464), React (145 of 464), Machine Learning (119 of 464), PostgreSQL (87 of 464), JavaScript (82 of 464)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Other openings for this role

9 open postings for this role in Berlin, first posted 27 September 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

103 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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SKILLSJavaScript 14,976LLM 18,618Next.js 2,092PostgreSQL 8,516
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COMPANYJobs at Clera 764

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