Founding Backend Engineer – Core Banking Platform NYC

Clera Labs, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation & visa support

Company gear (Apple)

Lunch and gym benefits

Four annual on-/offsites

Development budget

Manhattan office

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to help launch Augustus’s US operations from our NYC office. You will own core banking systems end-to-end for a programmable bank built for digital assets and AI, combining a national charter with Marble core.

You will ship code, own major projects, and shape system design in collaboration with product, clients, and engineering. Relocation support and a path to equity are provided.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• 1+ years in early-stage or small startup environments.
• Ability to ship and iterate with ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Ship meaningful code in your first weeks while ramping on the codebase, domain, and product.
• Own major projects end-to-end as an individual contributor, driving them from conception to production.
• Translate complex financial and banking problems into clean, reliable code that runs at scale.
• Make technical decisions on system design, data modeling, and architectural tradeoffs from day one.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and clients to shape how core banking systems evolve.
• Build systems that automate problems rather than scaling effort, prioritizing simplicity over cleverness.

Skills

Backend engineering

Ownership mindset

Code quality

Shipping code

Git workflows

Willingness to relocate

Job description

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a backend engineer to help launch Augustus’s US operations from our NYC office. You will own core banking systems end-to-end for a programmable bank built for digital assets and AI, combining a national charter with Marble core.

You will ship code, own major projects, and shape system design in collaboration with product, clients, and engineering. Relocation support and a path to equity are provided.