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Founding Engineer

CleraSan Francisco🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As the Founding Engineer, you'll have an unparalleled opportunity to shape core systems and establish engineering best practices from the ground up at an innovative agentic integration platform. This role is perfect for a proactive engineer with 3+ years of experience, particularly those adept in TypeScript, React, Node.js, LLMs, AWS, and PostgreSQL, eager to make a significant impact and grow with a rapidly scaling company. Apply now to build the future of agentic integration!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Location
San Francisco, United States
Posted
1 week ago
Node.jsAWSPostgreSQLReactTypeScript

Job Description

About the Role

This is a first engineering hire opportunity at an early-stage agentic integration platform serving paying enterprise customers. You'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire will build on — working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-ready software.

What You'll Do

  • Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.

  • Establish engineering patterns and standards that will guide the team as it scales.

  • Collaborate directly with founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership — not just code.

  • Ship to production continuously, delivering observable and reliable systems with measurable customer impact.

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in fast-paced startup environments.

  • Demonstrated ability to take a product from 0 to 1, whether in an early-stage startup or a substantial side project.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript and React for front-end development.

  • Proficiency in Node.js for back-end development.

  • Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

  • Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.

  • Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

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