# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage energy software team building tools for industrial battery storage. You will own core product development across backend services, optimization, operator interfaces, and cloud infrastructure. What You'll Do Build backend services and optimization algorithms for real-time energy asset processing. Develop dashboards that help battery operators monitor and control assets. Design and scale cloud infrastructure for distributed battery systems. Deploy production optimizations and improve them using real-world feedback. Work with cross-functional teammates to define product features and requirements. What We're Looking For Up to five years of professional experience and a graduation date of 2023 or later. Full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Python. Hands-on experience with energy systems and energy management controllers, plus demonstrated interest in the energy sector. Experience as a founding engineer or founding product engineer, ideally at an early-stage startup. Experience deploying optimization methods in production and a solid understanding of mixed-integer optimization. Cloud infrastructure experience with AW

- **Id**: 3927137
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-186>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Munich, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T17:06:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1693
- **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**: 70000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 111436

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: German; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

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

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 9; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 9 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## 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**: 2026-11-07T23:39:15Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 111436
- **Is top pay**: no

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