Founding Engineer

The role

You will build core agent infrastructure and scale a people-data and agent platform. You will design APIs, LLM-powered workflows, web scraping systems, and knowledge graph architecture.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, web scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.
• Architect and maintain production-grade systems for millions of API requests.
• Own projects end-to-end from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
• Collaborate with the CEO and CTO on technical decisions and roadmap priorities.
• Contribute across the stack including developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in full-stack or backend software engineering.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.
• Experience working with Linux servers in a production environment.
• Proven track record of shipping code to production supporting a large user base.
• Experience building entire products end-to-end.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be available to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days per week.
• Relocation is required.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a founder or early-stage engineer at a startup.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).

Benefits

• Equity participation as a founding team member.

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Relocation to San Francisco is required.

About the company

clera is a seed-funded B2B SaaS startup in the people-data and AI agents space.