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Founding Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/07/2026
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New York, NY

Responsibilities

Ship features across frontend, backend infrastructure, and real-time systems.
Build data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage reliably.
Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for complex research tasks.
Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and debugging.
Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.

Requirements

At least two years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately seven years or less of professional experience.
Hands-on experience deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production and sound judgment about AI reasoning versus deterministic software.
Full-stack capability with depth in backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
Python backend experience with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, plus TypeScript and React.
Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production monitoring and debugging.
Familiarity with AWS, real-time data systems, and streaming updates; modern data tools or edge infrastructure experience is a plus.
Software engineering experience at an investment firm, including recent AI project work, is required; capital markets, financial research, or investment banking experience is a plus.
Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City five days per week, locally or after relocating.

Benefits

Salary of $156,000 to $182,000 annually.
Equity and other benefits were not specified.
On-site in New York City five days per week.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $156k - $182k/yr

Clera

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