Founding Engineer

The role

You will own large parts of the product end-to-end and build agentic systems. You will work on context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures using a Go backend and Vite, React, and TypeScript frontend.

What you will do

• Own large parts of the product end-to-end
• Build and continuously improve agentic systems
• Work at the frontier of AI engineering
• Talk to users and scope features
• Ship full-stack using Go, Vite, React, and TypeScript
• Champion AI-first development practices
• Review code quickly

Required qualifications

• Proven production experience building backend services in Go (Golang)
• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
• Experience building frontend applications with React and TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment workflows, and production monitoring/observability
• Experience building and consuming REST and/or gRPC APIs in microservices architectures
• 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience (full-stack or equivalent)

Nice to have

• Prior startup experience or time as a founding/early engineer
• Experience building AI-driven products — agentic systems, LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent orchestration
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or equivalent) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with relational (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL databases
• AI research background or experience at an AI coding or tooling startup
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Generous equity
• Unlimited AI tooling budget
• A true seat at the table

Before you apply

• Authorized to work in the United States
• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a YC-backed enterprise AI SaaS startup building an agentic operating system for the enterprise.