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Founding Engineer in Others

Clera
Full time
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10/18/2026
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Berlin, Germany

Responsibilities

Build and ship full-stack product features from customer discovery through production release.
Develop agent-powered workflows and shared foundations for context, tool use, evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
Make architectural decisions across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, including performance, security, and developer experience considerations.
Review AI-assisted code and use frequent releases and customer feedback to improve product quality.
Contribute to engineering practices, hiring standards, and team processes while working hands-on as an individual contributor.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience building and shipping end-to-end product features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Evidence of strong engineering ability through shipped products, technical leadership, open-source work, or other substantial accomplishments.
Production experience with TypeScript and Python, plus experience building and deploying applications with React and Next.js.
Hands-on experience with production LLM applications, retrieval systems, and embeddings, including latency, cost, and quality trade-offs.
Experience designing reliable LLM workflows with evaluation loops, guardrails, and observability.
Strong foundations in databases, APIs, and full-stack architecture, with relevant experience in PostgreSQL, Supabase, Vercel, REST or GraphQL, and real-time data integrations.
Startup or entrepreneurial product-building experience is valued; familiarity with procurement, ERP, or enterprise supply chains is also valued.
Clear communication, high agency, sound judgment, and comfort working closely with an in-person team.

Benefits

Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
Full-time, on-site work in Berlin, Germany.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: Competitive

Clera

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