Founding Engineer
In short. Founding Engineer at Clera: a full-time mid-level role, on-site in San Francisco, CA. Posted salary: $180K – $250K. Asks for 4+ years of experience. Main work: Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes. Skills mentioned: LLMs, AI agents, Google Cloud, React. Posted Nov 6, 2026, checked on the employer's site 28 min ago.
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Summary
Join the founding engineering team at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. This hands-on role spans product engineering, backend systems, frontend experiences, infrastructure, and AI agents that help customers process complex operational documents.
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About the Role
Join the founding engineering team at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. This hands-on role spans product engineering, backend systems, frontend experiences, infrastructure, and AI agents that help customers process complex operational documents.
What You'll Do
Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.
Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.
Own products end to end, from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration.
Ship quickly, gather feedback from real users, and improve products based on how they work in practice.
What We're Looking For
At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of hands-on production coding.
Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader at an early-stage startup, and interest in returning to an individual contributor role.
End-to-end ownership of products or major features used by real customers, including experience taking products from 0 to 1.
Strong full-stack skills, including the ability to take a feature from backend service through to the user interface.
Experience building backend services that process real-world data and designing relational databases such as Postgres.
Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, or automation; document processing and unstructured data extraction are relevant.
Familiarity with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, React and Next.js, cloud platforms such as GCP, and production model integrations is helpful. Experience with other stacks is welcome.
Interest in fast-moving product development and solving problems in manufacturing, supply chain, or other established industries.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
This is a fully on-site role in San Francisco, California.
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