Founding Engineer – Product & Process

Clera

Job Overview

Location

Berlin

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• This is a founding-team engineering role at a seed-stage company building the operating system for Germany's tax advisory industry.
• The company acquires established, profitable tax firms and transforms them using an AI-powered automation platform — enabling tax professionals to focus on high-value client work rather than manual operational tasks.
• As Founding Engineer – Product & Process, you will turn real-world tax advisory workflows into executable, scalable systems.
• You'll own the full journey from prototype to hardened production, directly shaping how work flows, where automation adds the most leverage, and how complex regulated processes scale across multiple firms.
• This is a high-ownership, high-ambiguity role with direct impact on the company's core product and growth.
• You will analyze workflows across accounting, payroll, reporting, and client communication to surface bottlenecks, handovers, failure modes, and unnecessary manual work.
• You will rapidly design and build minimum effective prototypes (MEPs) and MVPs to automate and validate workflows.
• You will implement workflow systems using n8n, Temporal, or custom backend services.
• You will own the full transition from prototype to hardened, production-grade workflow system.
• You will collaborate closely with tax advisors and fellow engineers in tight, iterative feedback loops.
• You will make deliberate decisions about when UI matters — and when it's simply an implementation detail.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building and shipping workflow automation or process automation systems in production.
• Hands-on experience implementing workflow orchestration with n8n, Temporal, or equivalent tools.
• Demonstrated experience working with tax, accounting, payroll, or professional services workflows.
• Experience designing and building MEPs/MVPs to validate automation concepts.
• Proven ability to transition workflow prototypes into hardened, production-grade systems.
• Strong proficiency in backend development (custom services, APIs, backend logic for workflow systems).
• Strong CS fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, system design.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive early-stage package commensurate with a founding-team position, including meaningful equity participation.
• Details will be discussed during the interview process.

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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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