Founding Engineer

Clera
  • New York, New York
    3 days ago

    Job Description

    About the Role

    Join a small, product-focused team as its first full-time engineering hire, shaping the technical direction of an early-stage company in the insurance sector. You will build AI agent systems and help turn meaningful product and infrastructure challenges into solutions for users.

    What You'll Do

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

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

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

    • Design 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 strong backend and product engineering skills.

    • Hands-on experience building AI agents, ideally with AI or machine learning systems in production.

    • Experience with infrastructure and distributed systems, and the ability to own work from product decisions through delivery.

    • A strong academic foundation or startup experience, along with experience at an established company.

    • Insurance or financial services experience is helpful.

    Compensation & Benefits

    Base salary: $150,000 to $190,000 annually, depending on experience, plus 1% to 3% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

    Location

    Hybrid in New York City, with in-office work expected most days and some flexibility.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNew York, New York
    Websitehttps://www.getclera.com/

    Skills

    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Engineeringunmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • Insuranceunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Production Systemsunmatched
    • Startupunmatched
    • Systems Scalabilityunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched

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