Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join the founding engineering team at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. This hands-on role spans product engineering, backend systems, frontend experiences, infrastructure, and AI agents that help customers process complex operational documents.

What You'll Do

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.
  • Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.
  • Own products end to end, from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration.
  • Ship quickly, gather feedback from real users, and improve products based on how they work in practice.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of hands-on production coding.
  • Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader at an early-stage startup, and interest in returning to an individual contributor role.
  • End-to-end ownership of products or major features used by real customers, including experience taking products from 0 to 1.
  • Strong full-stack skills, including the ability to take a feature from backend service through to the user interface.
  • Experience building backend services that process real-world data and designing relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, or automation; document processing and unstructured data extraction are relevant.
  • Familiarity with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, React and Next.js, cloud platforms such as GCP, and production model integrations is helpful. Experience with other stacks is welcome.
  • Interest in fast-moving product development and solving problems in manufacturing, supply chain, or other established industries.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

This is a fully on-site role in San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

GCP · Kotlin · Next.js · RAG · Spring

Rare in Clera's other 182 open postings.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 357 open in Engineering. 225 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 (181 of 357), TypeScript (179 of 357), React (155 of 357), Python (150 of 357), Machine Learning (75 of 357), Supabase (73 of 357), PostgreSQL (69 of 357)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 7 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

67 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 156,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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