Backend-Leaning Product Engineer

Clera

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Join a small, high-ownership product team at an early-stage AI and automation startup as a Backend-Leaning Product Engineer.
• This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role where you'll build real-world AI-driven products, navigate messy integrations, and make fast product and engineering trade-offs with strong judgment — without heavy PM support.
• You'll work closely with founders and customers in a hybrid in-office environment in San Francisco.
• This is a great fit if you thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments and have a track record of shipping, not just planning.
• Own features end-to-end — from design through shipping and iteration.
• Make independent product and engineering decisions with minimal oversight.
• Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines.
• Integrate with external tools, legacy systems, and third-party services.
• Design workflows and orchestration layers for AI/automation-driven products.
• Debug production issues and exercise strong engineering judgment under pressure.
• Contribute full-stack when needed, with a clear emphasis on backend ownership.
• Collaborate directly with founders, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and maintaining data models and automation pipelines for backend systems.
• Proven ability to debug production issues and apply strong engineering judgment in troubleshooting.
• Track record of shipping real customer-facing products, ideally in 0-to-1 or ambiguous/messy startup environments.
• Experience with backend systems, APIs, data modeling, integrations, and automation.
• Comfort working in a very small, fast-moving team with little structure.

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary: up to $275,000 USD annually
• Equity: meaningful equity stake
• Visa sponsorship: not available

Skills & Technologies

Python

Backend

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About Clera

Clera, Inc. operates as an AI Talent Agent, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance and streamline various aspects of the talent acquisition and management process. The company's core offering appears to center on an AI-powered platform designed to connect skilled individuals with suitable opportunities or to assist organizations in efficiently sourcing and evaluating candidates. While comprehensive details regarding specific features, target industries, or the scale of its operations are not yet publicly available, the current online presence indicates that Clera's services are actively being prepared for launch. This suggests an upcoming introduction of innovative AI solutions aimed at optimizing the ecosystem where talent meets demand.

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