Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will own entire product modules end-to-end for an AI-driven pricing and monetization platform. You will work directly with customers to design, build, and ship features including agentic AI systems and backend services.

What you will do

  • Own whole product modules end-to-end including scoping, API design, UI, and shipping
  • Design and evolve architecture for agentic AI systems
  • Ensure product features are drivable by LLM agents via MCP/FastMCP servers and conversational interfaces
  • Move pricing and business logic off the client into backend services
  • Extend and maintain a typed pricing ontology
  • Lead technical discussions and architectural reviews
  • Establish testing, observability, deployment, and performance monitoring practices
  • Mentor peers, influence product strategy, and shape engineering culture
  • Prioritize root-cause analysis for production issues
  • Adopt and improve an AI-native SDLC

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience with strong full-stack skills and proven ownership of product areas at startup or staff engineer scope
  • Deep backend expertise with experience with FastAPI, Python, and MongoDB or a comparable modern stack
  • Credible frontend skills with React and TypeScript
  • Track record of taking ambiguous customer problems to shipped features without a dedicated PM
  • Experience designing and building REST or GraphQL APIs with clear contracts and versioning
  • High standards for correctness, especially around financial or pricing logic
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the US

Nice to have

  • Interest or hands-on experience in B2B monetization: pricing models, packaging, quoting, billing, or CPQ
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor, Copilot) and experience integrating LLM agent tooling or MCP-like servers
  • Prior experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup

Benefits

  • Early-employee equity commensurate with founding-team scope
  • Opportunity to shape product, architecture, and engineering culture from the ground up

Before you apply

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the US
  • No visa sponsorship is available

About the company

clera is a small, fast-moving team building an AI-driven pricing and monetization platform for B2B companies.