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Founding Engineer in Others

Clera
Full time
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10/11/2026
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Berlin, Germany

Responsibilities

Build and ship full-stack product features from customer discovery through production.
Develop AI-enabled workflows and shared foundations for agent context, tool use, evaluation, and observability.
Design reliable LLM workflows with evaluation loops and guardrails while balancing latency, cost, and quality.
Build real-time data pipelines, normalization, and integrations with enterprise systems.
Set architectural direction across performance, security, and developer experience.
Contribute to code reviews, engineering practices, frequent releases, and customer-feedback-driven product improvements.

Requirements

At least 3 years of full-stack engineering experience building and shipping production features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Production experience with TypeScript and Python and experience building applications with Next.js.
Hands-on production experience with LLMs, retrieval systems, and embeddings, including workflow evaluation and production trade-offs.
Strong foundations in APIs, databases, full-stack system design, data-intensive products, and enterprise integrations.
Evidence of strong engineering ability, initiative, ownership, clear communication, sound judgment, and reliable follow-through in a small or entrepreneurial product team.

Benefits

Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
Visa sponsorship is not available.
On-site in Berlin, Germany, working primarily in person with the team.

Salary: Competitive

Clera

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