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  • Clera
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 25 days ago
  • USD 150,000 – USD 250,000 / year
Clera VERIFIED EMPLOYER

Founding Engineer.

Software Engineering & Dev Full-Time

Founding Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for a founding engineer at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building an agentic integration platform for enterprise customers.
  • The Person:The person will own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime, define engineering standards, work with the founders, and ship reliable, observable production systems.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has 3+ years of software engineering experience, TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, and hands-on experience integrating or building workflows around large language models and agent-based platforms.

About the role

About the Role

This is a first engineering hire opportunity at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building an agentic integration platform for enterprise customers. You'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future teammate will build on — working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship production-ready software from day one.

What You'll Do

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime from end to end.

  • Define the engineering standards and patterns that the growing team will inherit.

  • Partner directly with the founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership — not just code.

  • Ship to production continuously, delivering reliable and observable systems to paying enterprise customers.

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced startup environments.

  • Demonstrated ability to build something 0-to-1, whether at an early-stage company or through a serious side project.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend development.

  • Proficiency in Node.js for backend development.

  • Hands-on experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

  • Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.

  • Track record of owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.

  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and tracing in production systems.

  • Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.

Published September 1, 2026
Location San Francisco, CA
Job Type Full-Time