Founding Engineer

The role

This role involves building backend systems, production AI agents, and end-to-end products for an early-stage B2B SaaS company. You will work on AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers.

What you will do

• Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.
• Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.
• Own products end to end from customer discovery to architecture, launch, and iteration.
• Ship quickly and gather feedback from real users.
• Improve products based on how they work in practice.

Required qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Track record of hands-on production coding.
• Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader at an early-stage startup.
• Interest in returning to an individual contributor role.
• End-to-end ownership of products or major features used by real customers.
• Experience taking products from 0 to 1.
• Strong full-stack skills.
• Experience building backend services that process real-world data.
• Designing relational databases such as Postgres.
• Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, or automation.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend
• React and Next.js
• Cloud platforms such as GCP
• Production model integrations

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

About the company

clera is an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers.