- Clera
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 25 days ago
Founding Engineer.
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Founding Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered workflow automation for distributors and manufacturers.
- The Person:The person will talk to customers, build full-stack product features and integrations, and improve the tests, evals, tooling, and infrastructure that support each customer implementation.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has hands-on full-stack development experience with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python, plus experience with Google Cloud Platform and production-ready AI agents.
About the role
About the Role
This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered workflow automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll work directly alongside the founders, owning problems end to end — from understanding customer workflows to designing, building, and shipping production features.
What You'll Do
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Talk directly with customers to understand their workflows and surface the right problems to solve.
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Build across the full stack: customer-facing features, AI agents, third-party integrations, and infrastructure.
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Improve the evals, tests, and tooling that make each new customer implementation faster and more reliable.
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Ship your first feature to a live customer within your first week.
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Design and implement a customer-driven feature end to end within your first month.
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Own a meaningful surface area of the product, end to end, within your first quarter.
What We're Looking For
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Hands-on full-stack development experience shipping production web applications with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python.
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Demonstrated experience building production-ready AI agents, including context engineering, tool design, and evaluation frameworks.
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Experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform.
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Experience integrating with legacy systems, APIs, and third-party software platforms (ERP/CRM experience is a plus).
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Comfort conducting customer discovery and translating business problems into technical solutions.
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Experience building and maintaining automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling for production systems.
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Prior experience in early-stage startup environments with small teams and rapid iteration cycles.
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Familiarity with LLM frameworks, prompt engineering, or AI agent orchestration tools is a strong plus.
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Background in B2B operations automation or enterprise software integration is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $140,000 – $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, CA.
