Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 30 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage B2B software team as its first engineering hire. You will own core systems for an agentic integration platform serving enterprise customers and help establish the technical foundations for future growth.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.
  • Set engineering practices and technical patterns that support a growing team.
  • Work closely with the founding team, contributing technical opinions and leadership.
  • Ship production improvements regularly, with a focus on reliability and observability.

What We're Looking For

  • Three or more years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in fast-paced startups.
  • Experience building a product or system from zero to one, through a startup or a substantial side project.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React, and Node.js for full-stack development.
  • Experience building or integrating workflows involving large language models and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, and database design.
  • Experience owning features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, with measurable customer impact.
  • Experience with production observability, monitoring, tracing, and dependable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • A computer science or engineering undergraduate degree and a strong record of technical achievement.
  • Prior experience as an early startup employee or founder, with the ability to help shape engineering standards.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $150,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated plan to relocate to San Francisco.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Node.js

Rare in Clera's other 205 open postings.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 201 open in Engineering. 135 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

LLM (94 of 201), TypeScript (88 of 201), Python (81 of 201), React (74 of 201), Machine Learning (41 of 201), PostgreSQL (40 of 201), Supabase (36 of 201)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

49 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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