Founding Engineer
Clera · Berlin
About the Role
Join an early-stage team building AI software for enterprise procurement. You will own customer problems from discovery through production while helping shape the technical direction and engineering practices of the company.
What You'll Do
Discover customer needs and deliver end-to-end product features across the frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Build AI-enabled workflows and shared foundations for agent context, tool use, and evaluation.
Set architectural direction and make decisions that support performance, security, and developer experience.
Review AI-assisted code and improve product quality through frequent releases and user feedback.
Contribute to hiring, code review, and the team's engineering practices.
What We're Looking For
At least 3 years of experience building and shipping full-stack production software, with clear evidence of strong engineering ability and ownership.
Production experience with TypeScript and Python, including applications built with Next.js; familiarity with React, PostgreSQL or Supabase, and Vercel is relevant.
Hands-on experience with production LLM applications, retrieval systems, and embeddings, including trade-offs in latency, cost, and quality.
Experience designing reliable LLM workflows with evaluations, guardrails, and observability.
Strong frontend, backend, database, API, and infrastructure fundamentals, with experience shipping features frequently.
Startup or entrepreneurial product-building experience and the ability to work hands-on in a small team.
Experience with real-time data pipelines, data normalization, and enterprise integrations is valuable.
Procurement, ERP, or enterprise supply chain experience is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in Berlin, Germany, working primarily in person with the team.