# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage fintech team as a founding engineer, building backend systems for financial integrations, workflow orchestration, and foundational ledger capabilities. You will work closely with company leaders and early customers to shape product direction, prototype solutions, and establish strong engineering practices. What You'll Do Design, build, and operate backend services and public APIs for customers and partners. Develop integrations with financial systems, ERPs, banks, and document sources. Build data ingestion and ETL pipelines with validation, quality controls, and reconciliation. Establish observability and operational practices, including logs, metrics, alerts, incident response, and on-call readiness. Collaborate with company leaders and customers to identify problems, prototype solutions, measure impact, and decide what to build or retire. Use LLMs where they provide measurable value, with appropriate safeguards. Document architectural decisions and improve engineering standards for testing and security. What We're Looking For At least 5 years of backend engineering experience delivering production systems end to end. Strong experience wi

- **Id**: 3762547
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-179>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: São Paulo, Brazil
- **Countries**: BR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:20:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2258
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 45000
- **Max**: 80000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 80000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Prefect** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:02:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.394
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, stale_co, wave, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 80000
- **Is top pay**: no

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