{"id":1597750,"url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-112","title":"Founding Engineer","company":{"id":2706,"name":"Clera","domain":"getclera.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/clera","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":30,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":6,"computed_at":"2026-10-06T05:45:30Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Berlin, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":70000,"max":110000,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":123118},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T17:12:10Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-06T17:10:14Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-06T17:10:14Z","days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"About the Role\nThis is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI fintech company building automation tools for private market operations, including fund accounting, reconciliation, and reporting. You will work side by side with the founding team and customers to shape the product roadmap, write production code, and help attract exceptional talent. The role carries maximum ownership and a clear path to engineering leadership.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and maintain core platform capabilities, including data capture from inboxes and web portals, transaction reconciliation, and journal entry generation for existing ERPs.\n\nDesign and operate LLM-powered and agentic workflows tailored to high-stakes private market operations.\n\nWork directly with early customers and design partners to gather requirements, prioritise features, and communicate trade-offs.\n\nContribute to product roadmap decisions and help define the technical direction of the company.\n\nOwn work across the full product lifecycle, from backend services and APIs to end-to-end shipped features.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n1 to 3 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong computer science and engineering fundamentals.\n\nProficiency in Python or TypeScript.\n\nHands-on experience building, integrating, or operating large language models and agentic or autonomous systems in production.\n\nDomain knowledge in private markets fund accounting, reporting, reconciliation, or treasury workflows.\n\nExperience building or maintaining AI-native operations infrastructure, such as systems for accounting, reporting, or treasury.\n\nFull-product-lifecycle capability, comfortable working across backend and other layers rather than in a narrowly scoped role.\n\nA shipped product, research project, side project, or open-source contribution that demonstrates independent builder instincts.\n\nExperience working directly with customers or design partners to shape requirements and roadmap priorities.\n\nBased in or willing to relocate to Berlin, Germany, and eligible to work in Germany.\n\nNice to have: prior experience at a high-growth startup, or a founding engineer, co-founder, or entrepreneur-in-residence background.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nSalary range: 70,000 to 110,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is available for candidates eligible to work in Germany.\nLocation\nOn-site in Berlin, Germany.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2377,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T18:21:48Z"},{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T05:40:10Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-06T17:10:14Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":123118,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-112","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-112.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-07T03:10:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4754,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":246,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2706},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2706"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fclera-founding-engineer-112"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fclera-founding-engineer-112"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fclera-founding-engineer-112"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/clera-founding-engineer-112\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fclera-founding-engineer-112"}]}