Founding Engineer

CLERA, LLC
San Francisco, CA, United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$150,000.0 - $250,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Distributed Systems PostgreSQL Software Engineering TypeScript Data Storage Technologies ReactJS Large Language Models Backend Kubernetes Front End Software Development

Job description

  • Establish engineering patterns, conventions, and architecture decisions that will define how the team operates as it scales.
  • Partner directly with the founders - your technical opinion matters as much as your code.
  • Ship to production constantly, building observable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems.
  • Drive end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.

Requirements

Must-haves:

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend.
  • Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 - whether at an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.
  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS (cloud infrastructure) and PostgreSQL (data storage).
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
  • Track record of owning features across the full stack - frontend, backend, and infra - with measurable customer outcomes.

Nice to have:

  • Familiarity with Bun, Effect-TS, or Kubernetes.
  • Background in supply chain, logistics, or enterprise SaaS integrations.

About the company

We’re a small, fast-moving team building an agentic integration platform for the physical economy - helping supply chain businesses connect their ERP, WMS, OMS, TMS, EDI, and logistics systems in hours instead of months. Our AI-generated integration platform is already serving paying enterprise customers, and we’re now bringing on our first engineering hire.

This is a true founding engineer role: you’ll own core systems end-to-end, set the technical patterns every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-grade software every day.

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