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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Engineer - **Company:** Y Combinator - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $182,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Software Debugging, PostgreSQL, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Real Time Systems, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Fastapi, Front End Software Development, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Data Pipelines - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-clera-9843042 ## About the Role * 2+ years of hands-on experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end. * Practical experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production. * Full-stack capability: Python backend (FastAPI or equivalent), TypeScript/React frontend, and data pipeline development. * Strong data infrastructure skills - ETL, data modeling, SQL, and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases. * Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production observability/debugging. * Familiarity with real-time or streaming data systems. * Strong judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic software is the right tool. * Deep ownership mentality - you want accountability for the whole result, not just a slice of it. * Bonus: capital markets, equity research, or investment banking domain experience. * Bonus: experience with modern data tools (dbt, columnar/vector databases), edge computing infrastructure, or AI/ML system abstractions. * Must be authorized to work in the US; visa sponsorship is not available. ## Description This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage AI fintech startup building an AI-native financial research terminal for the healthcare sector. You'll be the third person on the team, working directly with the founders to architect and ship the core infrastructure, agentic systems, and data pipelines that power the product. The work you do here will define how the platform scales., * Work across the full stack - shipping frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure. * Build data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts onboard new sources and maintain sector coverage faster and more reliably. * Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems, making AI agents more capable and reliable at processing complex financial data. * Own work end to end: inspecting data, QA-ing what you build, instrumenting it, shipping it, and fixing it in production. * In your first 30 days: add a new information source, improve agentic system speed or reliability, and build a company ontology with a first-version data feature. ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Intro to FastAPI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/462-intro-to-fastapi) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Never delegate the understanding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/749-never-delegate-the-understanding) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care)