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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Clera
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** €70,000.0 - €110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Web Portals, Software Engineering, Web Services, Large Language Models, Backend
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5851356790

## About the Role

* 1-3 years of professional software engineering experience.
 * Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs) and agentic/autonomous system development.
 * Strong backend development skills, including building and operating production-grade APIs and services.
 * Experience building or maintaining AI-native operations infrastructure (e.g. accounting, reporting, reconciliation, or treasury systems).
 * Domain knowledge in private markets fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and treasury processes.
 * Comfort working in a founding team environment with high ownership, proactive communication, and comfort with ambiguity.
 * Experience integrating and operating LLMs and agent-based systems in production.
 * Eligibility to work in Germany (visa sponsorship is available).

## Description

This is a founding engineer position at an early-stage AI fintech company building intelligent automation for private market operations. You'll work directly alongside the founding team and customers to shape the core product - an AI-powered platform that automates fund accounting workflows like data capture, reconciliation, and journal entry generation. This is a maximum-ownership role with a clear path into leadership.
What You'll Do

 * Build and iterate on core product components, including AI agents that integrate with inboxes, web portals, and financial data sources.
 * Design and develop production-grade backend APIs and services that power end-to-end private market operations workflows.
 * Work directly with design partners and customers to gather requirements, define the product roadmap, and communicate trade-offs.
 * Contribute to recruiting and help shape the culture and team as an early hire.
 * Operate with high autonomy in a fast-paced, ambiguous founding environment.


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