Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)

Clera

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Zero commute

Support with visa processes

Job summary

A fast-growing AI recruitment startup in New York is looking for engineer #4 to join the founding team. You will work directly with the CTO, drive features to production, and own product areas from concept to deployment. Ideal candidates have strong software engineering backgrounds with experience in TypeScript and React, and are passionate about AI. This role offers competitive salary and equity, with a unique opportunity to shape the product at an early stage.

Qualifications

Strong software engineering background with TypeScript and React experience.
Practical experience coding with AI, bonus for LLM APIs.
Resourceful with a startup mindset and focus on value creation.

Responsibilities

Own and ship features to production daily.
Work on building agentic systems to automate complex workflows.
Collaborate constantly with customers to iterate based on feedback.
Build fully agentic AI-driven workflows at scale.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AI experience

Startup mindset

Prisma

LLM APIs

AI experience

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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