Founding Product Engineer

The role

You will design, develop, and deliver features across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools. You will work with the founding team to build a consumer-facing financial product using React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools.
• Take end-to-end ownership of major product areas from concept through launch.
• Work closely with the founder, lead engineer, and designer to architect and implement solutions.
• Build and wire up APIs across a full stack of React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development.
• Help scale the product to meet rapidly growing consumer demand.

Required qualifications

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript (React) on the front end and comfort with Go on the back end.
• Prior experience shipping and maintaining features for B2C / consumer-facing products.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, and Docker for infrastructure and deployment.
• Experience building and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment with broad ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI coding assistants and prototyping tools to accelerate development.
• Background in fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Familiarity with tools like Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Figma.

Benefits

• Salary: $190,000 – $210,000 USD annually
• Early-stage equity

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a well-funded, early-stage fintech startup building a new kind of collaborative financial product.