Founding Engineer (Generalist)
Clera
Berlin, Germany
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
JuniorJob location
Berlin, Germany
Tech stack
Backend
Front End Software Development
Job description
Our client is a Pre-Seed / Seed-stage startup with a strong founding team and notable angel backing. They are hiring a Founding Engineer to ship the first product and shape the engineering culture. Full-time, on-site in Berlin.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production software, ideally at an early-stage startup
- Strong generalist: comfortable across backend, frontend, and infra
- High agency and tolerance for ambiguity
- Track record of shipping fast without breaking the product long-term
- Bonus: prior 0 to 1 product experience as an early engineer
Benefits & conditions
- Ship the first version of the product end-to-end across stack
- Make foundational architecture choices (language, infra, deployment)
- Talk to early users and translate their problems into product
- Set engineering culture: testing, code review, documentation
- Help hire the next 3 to 5 engineers