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Founding Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping full-stack products
  • Strong backend foundation and product engineering mindset
  • Experience building AI agents or similar AI systems
  • Ability to own product decisions and deliver end-to-end work

Responsibilities

  • Build and iterate on AI agent systems that power the core product
  • Own full-stack development across backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces
  • Partner with the founding team on product decisions, balancing technical feasibility with user needs
  • Architect scalable backend systems that support AI workloads

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration

About the company

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Clera Inc.

Staffing & Recruiting

Clera is an AI talent agent that represents job candidates and connects them directly with hiring managers at venture-backed startups. The platform uses artificial intelligence to match professionals with suitable career opportunities and facilitates introductions via email, iMessage, and WhatsApp, bypassing traditional job application processes.

Company details

IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size11-50

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Job description

About the Role

Join a small, product-focused team as its first full-time engineering hire. You will help shape the technical direction of an early-stage insurance technology company, building AI agent systems and product capabilities that address meaningful customer needs.

What You'll Do

  • Build and iterate on AI agent systems that power the core product.

  • Own full-stack development across backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces.

  • Partner with the founding team on product decisions, balancing technical feasibility with user needs.

  • Architect scalable backend systems that support AI workloads.

  • Contribute to platform infrastructure as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping full-stack products, with a strong backend foundation and product engineering mindset.

  • Experience building AI agents or similar AI systems, ideally with AI or machine learning systems in production.

  • Ability to own product decisions and deliver end-to-end work with both product and platform considerations.

  • Strong technical fundamentals, with experience at an established company or an early-stage startup; startup experience can be an alternative to a traditional academic background.

  • Insurance or financial services experience is helpful.

  • Comfort working independently and contributing across a broad engineering scope.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 to $190,000 annually, depending on experience. Equity: 1% to 3%. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid in New York City, with an expectation to work from the office most days and some flexibility.

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