Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$190,000 - $210,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

A well-funded, early-stage fintech startup is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to join a small, senior team building a new kind of collaborative financial product. You'll have broad ownership across the stack, working directly with the founding team to ship high-quality, polished features for a consumer-facing application with a 40,000+ person waitlist.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of major product areas — such as debit card functionality or internal risk assessment tooling — from concept through launch.
  • Work closely with the founder, lead engineer, and designer to architect and implement solutions that delight users.
  • Build and wire up APIs across a full stack of React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL.
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and contribute to a culture of high-quality engineering.
  • Help scale the product to meet rapidly growing consumer demand.

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript (React) on the front end and comfort with Go on the back end.
  • Prior experience shipping and maintaining features for B2C / consumer-facing products.
  • Solid experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, and Docker for infrastructure and deployment.
  • Experience building and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment with broad ownership.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience using AI coding assistants and prototyping tools to accelerate development.
  • Background in fintech, payments, or financial services.
  • Familiarity with tools like Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Figma.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $190,000 – $210,000 USD annually
  • Early-stage equity
  • Visa sponsorship is not available

Location

This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA. Candidates in Los Angeles, CA or New York City, NY may also be considered. Remote-only candidates will not be considered at this time.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 357 open in Engineering. 225 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 (181 of 357), TypeScript (179 of 357), React (155 of 357), Python (150 of 357), Machine Learning (75 of 357), Supabase (73 of 357), PostgreSQL (69 of 357)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 4 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

27 other open postings titled Founding Product Engineer state a salary: median USD 175,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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