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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Clera
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Data Integrity, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), SQLAlchemy, TypeScript, Unstructured Data, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Fastapi
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5861251337

## About the Role

* 3+ years building full-stack applications with Python backends and React frontends in production environments.
 * Practical production experience building and deploying LLM-based agentic systems or AI agents.
 * Strong proficiency with Python backend frameworks - FastAPI, Pydantic, and SQLAlchemy.
 * Production experience with TypeScript and React for building user interfaces for complex workflows.
 * Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as PydanticAI, Google ADK, LangGraph, or equivalent tools.
 * Experience designing mission-critical systems with high reliability, security, and data integrity requirements.
 * Comfortable shipping rapidly using AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, Gemini) to increase velocity.
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure deployment and management for production applications.
 * Nice to have: Experience with LLM observability/evaluation tools, ERP or enterprise supply chain integrations, document extraction and unstructured data processing, or fluency in German.

## Description

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building autonomous agents that automate complex processes for industrial enterprises. You'll work across the full stack - from React frontends to cloud infrastructure to LLM-powered backends - with direct influence over both the product and the engineering culture being built from the ground up.
What You'll Do

 * Architect and ship end-to-end features, balancing near-term impact with long-term scalability.
 * Design agentic systems that use LLMs for reasoning, document extraction, and enterprise process automation.
 * Implement AI best practices to ensure autonomous agents operate with precision, security, and industrial-grade reliability.
 * Own the complete user journey - refining frontends, architecting backend logic, and managing cloud infrastructure as needed.
 * Build mission-critical, secure, and resilient AI solutions held to the highest standards for data integrity.
 * Proactively identify and resolve critical problems outside your immediate scope, from infrastructure bottlenecks to customer friction points.


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