{"id":3250274,"url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-162","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":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"}},"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":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":80000,"max":140000,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":156858},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-25T17:03:38Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T12:24:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About the Role\nJoin an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, partnering with the founder to turn a working product into reliable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses. You will help shape the architecture, agent runtime, and engineering practices as the product scales.\nWhat You'll Do\nRebuild the existing product into infrastructure designed to support significant growth.\n\nDesign and operate agent systems, including orchestration, memory, and verification.\n\nOwn projects end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents.\n\nSet technical direction, choose the stack, and establish a high-quality engineering culture.\n\nShip improvements weekly or faster to customers using the product in their businesses.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nAt least two years shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.\n\nFull-stack range, with the ability to work across backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces.\n\nExperience building and operating production LLM or AI agent systems relied on by real users.\n\nExperience evolving a working prototype into scalable infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtime, and orchestration.\n\nEvidence of owning technical decisions in an early-stage environment, and the ability to explain the difficult parts of systems you have shipped.\n\nExperience with agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, or multi-agent workflows is useful.\n\nFounder experience or familiarity with recruiting, agencies, or other service-delivery businesses is a plus.\n\nBased in Europe and willing to relocate to San Francisco within the first year.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nBase salary: €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is part of the founding-level opportunity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.\nLocation\nRemote within Europe, with an expectation to relocate to San Francisco within the first year.","description_format":"text","description_chars":1992,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"region"},{"name":"France","iso":"FR","kind":"region"},{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"region"},{"name":"Austria","iso":"AT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Bulgaria","iso":"BG","kind":"region"},{"name":"Croatia","iso":"HR","kind":"region"},{"name":"Czech Republic","iso":"CZ","kind":"region"},{"name":"Denmark","iso":"DK","kind":"region"},{"name":"Finland","iso":"FI","kind":"region"},{"name":"Hungary","iso":"HU","kind":"region"},{"name":"Ireland","iso":"IE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Italy","iso":"IT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"region"},{"name":"Norway","iso":"NO","kind":"region"},{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"region"},{"name":"Romania","iso":"RO","kind":"region"},{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"region"},{"name":"Sweden","iso":"SE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Switzerland","iso":"CH","kind":"region"},{"name":"Estonia","iso":"EE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Greece","iso":"GR","kind":"region"},{"name":"Iceland","iso":"IS","kind":"region"},{"name":"Latvia","iso":"LV","kind":"region"},{"name":"Liechtenstein","iso":"LI","kind":"region"},{"name":"Lithuania","iso":"LT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Luxembourg","iso":"LU","kind":"region"},{"name":"Malta","iso":"MT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Portugal","iso":"PT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Slovakia","iso":"SK","kind":"region"},{"name":"Slovenia","iso":"SI","kind":"region"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-25T20:59:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.417,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":6,"reasons":["conf:1","agency","stale_co","wave","velocity","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":156858,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-162","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-162.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T15:52:58Z","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_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4934,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"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-162"},{"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-162"},{"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-162"},{"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-162\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fclera-founding-engineer-162"}]}