Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)

Clera

Toronto

On-site

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive salary

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Job summary

A leading AI recruiting startup located in Toronto, Canada is seeking an exceptional engineer to join their founding team. As engineer #4, you will have full ownership over projects and responsibilities to ship features to production daily. The role requires strong experience in TypeScript, React, and AI. The team values a startup mindset and offers meaningful equity in a fast-growing company. If you're ready for significant impact in the future of recruiting, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

Very strong software engineering background with experience in TypeScript and React.
Strong practical experience working with AI and coding with AI.

Responsibilities

Ship features to production daily and own product areas from concept to deployment.
Build fully agentic systems that automate complex workflows.

Skills

Software engineering background

Experience in TypeScript

Experience in React

Experience working with AI

Experience with LLM APIs

Startup mindset

Tools

Cursor

Supabase

Prisma

Typesense

Trigger.dev

Job description

We're building the future of recruiting with AI – and we need an exceptional engineer to join our founding team in our San Francisco hackerhouse.

We just raised a $3M pre‑seed from top‑tier investors and are looking for someone to be one of our first engineering hires. This is the real deal: meaningful equity, direct impact on product direction, and the chance to build something massive in a $600B industry ripe for disruption.

What We’re Building

Clera is reimagining how top talent finds their dream jobs. We're already working with leading VC‑backed startups like Mintlify, Luminai, and Windsurf – automating the entire headhunting process end‑to‑end with AI agents.

Thousands of talents engage with Clera every week. We've helped many land roles at companies they're genuinely excited about. Traditional recruiting is broken – we're fixing it with AI‑first automation that delivers better outcomes for both candidates and companies.

We're at the perfect inflection point: early enough that you'll have massive ownership and impact, but far enough that we have a working product, paying customers, and strong traction.

The Role

You’ll be engineer #4 on the founding team, working directly with our CTO and the other founding engineers. You’ll ship features to production daily and own entire product areas from concept to deployment.

We're building fully agentic systems that automate complex workflows. It's technically challenging, fast‑paced, and high‑impact.

Your Experience

Very strong software engineering background: Experience in TypeScript and React
Strong practical experience working with AI: We work 24/7 in Cursor - ideally you have experience coding with AI. Bonus if you have an experience working with LLM APIs
Startup mindset - high agency, resourceful, and obsessed with creating value

Who You Are

Take full ownership of projects, from concept to deployment and do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Write code fast and scrap it even faster, but know when to transition to building for scale and quality.
Enjoy talking to customers and iterating based on feedback.
Are willing to work hard, to create something new with a lot of impact, changing how millions of talents find their jobs in the future.

Tech Stack

TypeScript, React, Cursor, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, LLM APIs, Trigger.dev

The SF Hackerhouse Setup

We're living and building together in SF. Zero commute, 10× faster feedback loops, constant collaboration.

It's intense, but it's also incredibly productive and fun. You'll be surrounded by A-players who are all-in on building something great.

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