Full-Time
Founding Engineer
Updated on 8/1/2026
Clera
11-50 employees
AI-powered candidate matching for startup roles
Compensation Overview
$200k - $300k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Candidates must be based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.
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- Three to seven years of full-stack software development experience.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a top-20 Computer Science program.
- Strong product sense and comfort owning decisions in a small, cross-functional team.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced founding-team environments.
- Based in San Francisco, California, or willing to relocate.
- Must be legally eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
- Build and ship full-stack features across the product in a 0-to-1 environment.
- Own product decisions and contribute to roadmap prioritization alongside the founders.
- Set early engineering standards, architecture decisions, and development practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally in a small, high-trust team with minimal hierarchy.
- Iterate rapidly based on user feedback and business needs.
- Experience at a FAANG-scale organization and/or an early-stage startup.
- Prior experience shipping products in a 0-to-1 context.
Clera is a candidate-first AI recruitment platform that helps professionals connect with roles at venture-backed startups. It analyzes a candidate’s CV or LinkedIn profile with AI to match skills, experience, and career goals, delivering curated job opportunities across engineering, product, design, operations, and sales, plus interview prep and application support. Employers receive pre-vetted candidates and a curated list within 24 hours of sharing a job description, using a flat-fee, no upfront cost model. The goal is to speed up hiring for startups by quickly pairing strong, culture-fit candidates with suitable roles while supporting candidates through a tailored job-search experience.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2025
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Clera surpassed $1M annualized revenue in six months post-launch.
- It now connects 25,000+ talents with 130+ venture-backed startups.
- The platform maintains 40% month-over-month growth from strong demand.
What critics are saying
- Standout.work erodes Clera’s passive candidate pool by 25–40% in 6–12 months.
- Alpha Apex Group undercuts Clera’s flat-fee model for high-value hires in 9–15 months.
- Y Combinator’s Contrario could replace Clera’s agentic matching entirely in 12–24 months.
What makes Clera unique
- Clera is the first AI talent agent representing candidates, not employers.
- It uses deep profile analysis instead of keyword matching for relevant roles.
- Candidates get direct intros to hiring managers within hours, not weeks.
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