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Founding Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
09/16/2026
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New York, NY

Responsibilities

Ship full-stack features spanning frontend, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.
Build data pipelines and internal tools for adding data sources and maintaining sector coverage.
Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems for reliable production use.
Own the full development lifecycle, including data inspection, QA, instrumentation, shipping, monitoring, debugging, and production fixes.
Integrate new data sources, improve system speed or reliability, build a company ontology, and ship an initial core product module.

Requirements

2–7 years of professional experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end.
Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production.
Full-stack experience with Python backend development using FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React.
Experience developing data infrastructure and pipelines, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL.
Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
Experience with observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems, plus AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment.
Experience with real-time data systems and streaming updates.
Strong judgment in choosing between agentic reasoning and deterministic logic.
US citizenship is required; visa sponsorship is not available.
Capital markets, equity research, financial services, dbt, columnar stores, or vector databases are bonus qualifications.

Benefits

Base salary of $156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.
On-site in New York City five days per week; candidates must be local or willing to relocate.
Opportunity to join a three-person founding engineering team at a YC-backed seed-stage startup and directly shape the product and engineering approach.

Salary: $156k - $182k/yr

Clera

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