Clera

Founding Engineer

Berlin
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Berlin
Visa
Sponsors visas

Not stated in the posting: salary.

Open. First seen 3 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI and logistics technology team as a Founding Engineer. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on full-stack engineering to turn AI agent demos into reliable, production-ready tools for freight operations, while helping shape product and technical direction.

What You'll Do

  • Lead customer conversations and translate operational insights into product features and technical strategy.
  • Design and build full-stack applications and advance the product's AI capabilities.
  • Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems.
  • Make pragmatic architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
  • Broad product-engineering experience across backend systems and user-facing applications, rather than a focus limited to one discipline.
  • Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, as well as Python backend development.
  • Experience shipping customer-facing LLM features or agents in production, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
  • Experience building and deploying scalable products from MVP to production, including moving beyond prototype or demo stages.
  • Ability to lead customer conversations, turn feedback into product requirements, and make sensible early-stage architecture trade-offs.
  • Experience in a startup or other early-stage environment; freight or logistics technology experience is relevant.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be willing to work from Berlin or relocate there.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

JavaScript · Node.js · Vector Databases

Rare in Clera's other 200 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 191 open in Engineering. 125 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (92 of 191), TypeScript (89 of 191), Python (80 of 191), React (78 of 191), Machine Learning (49 of 191), PostgreSQL (40 of 191), Supabase (36 of 191)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 3 times since 27 September 2026: a posting for this role in Berlin was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

48 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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