Founding Product Engineer

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Clera seeks a founding-level product engineer to join a fast-moving team building an AI phone assistant for SMEs across Europe. You will own features from discovery to production with influence over product direction and architecture.

We look for 3+ years of full-stack experience (Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, React), German at least B2 and fluent English. This fully remote role requires CET overlap; optional Vienna office; equity included.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product engineering experience delivering features end-to-end in a startup environment.
• Strong full-stack proficiency across Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React.
• Native or near-native German proficiency (B2 or above), essential for this role.
• Fluent English for team communication.
• Experience integrating large language models or building AI-powered product features is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end, from discovery and prototyping through to production release.
• Lead product discovery by forming and testing hypotheses through rapid, lightweight experiments.
• Maintain close contact with customers, partners, and Sales to surface and prioritize real pain points.
• Design and implement tracking to gather the metrics needed for data-driven iteration.
• Build across the full stack, driving architecture decisions and seeing them through to release.
• Balance pragmatic short-term validation with longer-term scalability in every solution.
• Take radical ownership of initiatives and move them forward autonomously.

Skills

3+ years product eng

Full-stack Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

React

German B2+

English

Product mindset

Metrics-driven

AI features experience

Job description

About the Role

This is a founding-level product engineering role on a small, fast-moving team building an AI phone assistant for SMEs across Europe. You will sit in the Engineering team and take end-to-end ownership of features, from early hypothesis through production, with real influence over product direction and architecture.

What You'll Do

• Own features end-to-end, from discovery and prototyping through to production release.

• Lead product discovery by forming and testing hypotheses through rapid, lightweight experiments.

• Maintain close contact with customers, partners, and Sales to surface and prioritize real pain points.

• Design and implement tracking to gather the metrics needed for data-driven iteration.

• Build across the full stack, driving architecture decisions and seeing them through to release.

• Balance pragmatic short-term validation with longer-term scalability in every solution.

• Take radical ownership of initiatives and move them forward autonomously.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of product engineering experience delivering features end-to-end in a startup environment.

• Strong full-stack proficiency across Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React.

• Proven ability to own software from architecture and implementation through production release.

• Native or near-native German proficiency (B2 or above), essential for this role.

• Fluent English for team and cross-functional communication.

• Deep product mindset with responsibility that extends well beyond writing code.

• Comfort extracting and owning metrics to drive and defend decisions.

• Experience integrating large language models or building AI-powered product features (strong advantage).

• Available to work with overlap in Central European Time (CET).

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: 80,000 to 120,000 EUR annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

Fully remote, with CET overlap required. An optional office in Vienna, Austria is available. The primary location for this role is Germany.