Clera

Software Engineer - Full Stack

San Francisco. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will own technical projects from design through production maintenance. You will work on an advertiser-facing platform, attribution systems, and analytics pipelines.

What you will do

  • Own technical projects from scoping and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production maintenance
  • Build and maintain reliable backend systems and production-grade APIs
  • Operate and improve production services including monitoring, observability, incident response, and performance troubleshooting
  • Work with AWS cloud services
  • Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries
  • Collaborate with GTM and product stakeholders
  • Contribute to analytics, attribution, and event-driven data pipelines

Required qualifications

  • Proven track record owning technical projects end to end in production environments
  • Hands-on experience building backend systems and designing/consuming production APIs
  • Strong practical AWS experience
  • Proficiency in Python (Django and/or FastAPI), REST API design, and async patterns
  • PostgreSQL experience: query optimization and schema design
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice to have

  • Experience with analytics, attribution, adtech, or event-driven/data pipelines and instrumentation
  • Familiarity with ClickHouse or other column-oriented OLAP databases at scale
  • Containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
  • Background in real-time data systems, event streaming (Kafka, Redis Streams), or high-throughput API design
  • Prior experience at an early-stage startup or a major tech company shipping production code
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity opportunity

Before you apply

  • Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (now or in the future)
  • The company does not provide visa sponsorship

About the company

clera is an early-stage adtech startup building AI-native advertising infrastructure.