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Clera
Full time
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USA
09/30/2026
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New York, NY

Responsibilities

Build and ship frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure across the full stack.
Build data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts add sources and maintain sector coverage.
Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability.
Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and issue resolution.
Onboard new information sources and deliver measurable improvements to agentic system speed or reliability.
Build a company ontology and ship an initial version of a core product feature within the first 30 days.

Requirements

2 to 7 years of professional software engineering 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 capability with Python backend development, FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React.
Strong experience with data infrastructure and pipelines, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL.
Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, production observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems.
Familiarity with real-time data systems and streaming updates.
Sound judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic software is more appropriate.
Comfort operating with deep ownership and ambiguity on a small, fast-moving team.
Experience in capital markets, equity research, investment banking, or financial services is a strong plus.
Familiarity with tools such as dbt, columnar databases, or vector search systems is a plus.
Must be a US citizen.

Benefits

Salary range is $156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.
Equity is expected given the founding-team nature of the role.
On-site in New York City five days per week; candidates must already be local or willing to relocate.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $156k - $182k/yr

Clera

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