# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage team building AI software for enterprise procurement. You will own customer-facing product work from discovery through delivery and help shape the technical foundations and engineering practices as the team grows. What You'll Do Turn customer problems into full-stack product features, from discovery through production. Build AI-enabled workflows and shared infrastructure for agent context, tools, and evaluations. Set architectural direction across frontend, backend, databases, and infrastructure, balancing performance, security, and developer experience. Design dependable LLM workflows with evaluation loops, guardrails, and observability, and manage latency, cost, and quality trade-offs. Build real-time data pipelines, normalize data, and integrate with enterprise systems. Review AI-assisted code, ship frequently, and improve product quality through user feedback. Contribute to hiring and define effective engineering processes and team practices. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of full-stack engineering experience shipping end-to-end production features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Strong evidence of engineering ab

- **Id**: 3980903
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-187>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T17:22:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:42:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2145
- **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**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Supabase** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vercel** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T19:42:01Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 8; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 8 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:5, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:58:56Z

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