Senior Backend / Full Stack Engineer

The role

You will build messaging infrastructure for AI agents. You will own complex systems from architecture through production to help developers build reliable agent experiences.

What you will do

• Design and operate highly available backend services for large-scale, real-time messaging workloads.
• Own projects end to end including problem definition, architecture, implementation, deployment, observability, and ongoing operation.
• Build intuitive APIs, SDKs, developer tools, dashboards, and internal platforms.
• Address distributed systems challenges involving reliability, concurrency, fault tolerance, message delivery, queuing, and consistency.
• Contribute across backend services, infrastructure, internal tooling, and user-facing developer experiences.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs and make pragmatic decisions.
• Use AI coding agents thoughtfully.
• Take part in architecture discussions, code reviews, and incident analysis.

Required qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Substantial experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience with another backend language such as Go, Rust, or Swift.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, networking, databases, and API design.

Benefits

• H-1B sponsorship and OPT and CPT support are available.

About the company

clera is a small engineering team building messaging infrastructure for AI agents.