# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $150K – $250K - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is an early-stage agentic integration platform serving paying enterprise customers, and you will be the first engineering hire. You will own core systems end-to-end and set the technical patterns that every future engineer builds on, working hand-in-hand with the founders from day one. ### What You'll Do * Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end. * Define the engineering patterns and standards that the growing team will build on. * Work directly with the founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership, not just code. * Ship production-ready, observable, and reliable systems continuously. ### What We're Looking For * 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems. * Demonstrated ability to build something from 0 to 1, whether at an early-stage startup or through a serious side project. * Strong background from an early-stage, venture-backed startup environment; a career spent exclusively at large tech companies, enterprise, or consulting does not meet the bar. * Proficiency in TypeScript and React for full-stack and frontend development. * Proficiency in Node.js for backend development. * Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models and agent-based platforms. * Hands-on experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage. * Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact. * Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and tracing in production systems. * Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems. * A strong CS or engineering foundation, ideally from a rigorous degree program. * Genuine enthusiasm for joining as employee number one at a true early-stage company. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **$150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path. ### Location On-site, five days a week in **San Francisco, CA**. Candidates currently based in the Bay Area are preferred; US-based candidates with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco will also be considered. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: