Founding Product Engineer

The role

You will work with the founding team to build AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. You will own products end to end from customer discovery to shipping software across backend, AI agents, frontend, and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Speak with manufacturers to understand workflows and translate needs into product improvements.
• Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer ERPs and inboxes.
• Develop AI agents that help complete complex food safety and compliance documents.
• Own features across the full stack.
• Define problems, build user interfaces, and ship and iterate based on feedback.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions and take on emerging product and engineering needs.

Required qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional experience, including substantial hands-on software engineering and production coding.
• Experience as a product manager who transitioned into engineering, or as a sole or first product engineer with end-to-end ownership of product discovery, development, launch, and iteration.
• A record of shipping products or major features used by real customers.
• Ability to explain technical and product tradeoffs.
• Strong full-stack skills, including backend services, frontend development, and relational database design such as PostgreSQL.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, plus React and Next.js
• Production experience with AI or LLM products, agents, search, RAG, document processing, or unstructured data extraction
• Experience with GCP or another major cloud platform
• Familiarity with food manufacturing, supply chains, or other traditional industrial sectors

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

About the company

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