Clera

Founding Engineer

Berlin
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Berlin
Visa
Sponsors visas

Not stated in the posting: salary.

Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage freight technology team building AI-powered tools for sea and air freight operations. You will combine hands-on full-stack engineering with customer conversations to turn operational needs into scalable, production-ready products and help shape the product and technical direction.

What You'll Do

  • Lead conversations with customers and translate their feedback into product features and technical decisions.
  • Design and build full-stack applications while advancing user-facing AI capabilities.
  • Move products from demos and prototypes to scalable, high-quality production systems.
  • Contribute to product, technology, and company direction through practical engineering work.
  • Make architecture trade-offs suited to an early-stage environment without over-engineering.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
  • Broad product-engineering experience across frontend, backend, and systems, with recent hands-on development work.
  • Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus Python backend development.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
  • Experience shipping user-facing LLM features or agents for customers, and taking products from MVP to production.
  • Experience leading customer conversations and turning feedback into product requirements.
  • Experience in a startup or early-stage environment; freight or logistics technology experience is relevant.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid, Berlin, Germany.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Node.js · Vector Databases

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 449 open in Engineering. 383 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 (198 of 449), LLM (189 of 449), TypeScript (180 of 449), React (143 of 449), Machine Learning (118 of 449), PostgreSQL (84 of 449), JavaScript (80 of 449)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Other openings for this role

10 postings for this role in Berlin since 27 September 2026, 8 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

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

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