# Founding Backend Engineer

About the Role Own the backend infrastructure for an AI-powered personal assistant that communicates through text, email, and phone. As a hands-on founding engineer, you will design, operate, and improve reliable systems that ensure messages and scheduled actions work as expected. What You'll Do Design and operate messaging pipelines for inbound and outbound communications, with reliable ordering, retries, and delivery tracking. Build an agent runtime for background tasks, handling concurrency, timeouts, cancellation, and recovery from model or tool failures. Implement scheduling for deferred actions and follow-ups that must run reliably in the correct time zone. Plan capacity, load test, optimize databases, and evolve architecture to support substantial traffic growth. Own data security, privacy, Postgres schemas and migrations, and user data deletion workflows. Build observability and tracing across messages, model calls, and tools, and monitor latency and cost. Set backend engineering standards and help grow the engineering team while remaining hands-on. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of software engineering experience, including production on-call ownership for

- **Id**: 3927135
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-backend-engineer-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T17:08:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:08:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2408
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 47; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 47 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T03:28:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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