Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)

Clera

Austin (TX)

Remote

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

No micromanagement

Fast-paced environment with direct collaboration

Support with visa processes

Job summary

A leading AI recruitment startup seeks an exceptional engineer to join its founding team in Austin. As engineer #4, you'll directly impact product direction and automate complex workflows with your expertise in TypeScript, React, and AI. This role offers meaningful equity and daily responsibilities, making it perfect for a driven individual looking to shape the future of recruiting. Work closely with experienced founders and be part of an innovative environment that emphasizes ownership and quick iterations.

Qualifications

Experience in software engineering with a focus on TypeScript and React.
Strong practical experience with AI, ideally using LLM APIs.
Ability to take full ownership of projects and quickly iterate.

Responsibilities

Work with CTO and founding team to ship features daily.
Own product areas from concept to deployment.
Automate complex workflows through agentic systems.

Skills

Strong software engineering background in TypeScript and React

Experience working with AI and LLM APIs

Startup mindset and resourceful

Tools

Cursor

Supabase

Prisma

Typesense

LLM APIs

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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