# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage fintech team to build backend systems for financial integrations, workflow orchestration, and ledger foundations. You will work closely with founders and early customers, helping shape product direction and engineering practices through rapid prototyping and measurable outcomes. What You'll Do Design, build, and operate backend services and public APIs for customers and partners. Develop integrations with ERP systems, banks, and financial document and file sources. Build ETL pipelines with data quality controls, validation, and reconciliation. Establish observability and operational practices, including logging, metrics, alerts, incident response, and on-call readiness. Collaborate with founders and customers to identify problems, prototype solutions, measure impact, and decide what to build or retire. Apply LLMs where they can deliver measurable value, with appropriate production guardrails. Document architectural decisions and improve engineering quality, testing, and security practices. What We're Looking For At least 5 years of backend engineering experience delivering and owning production systems end to end. Strong experience with OL

- **Id**: 4083722
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-190>
- **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**: 2026-11-11T17:10:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:18:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2330
- **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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## 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** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:18:20Z

## 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:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T20:02:17Z

## Pay

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

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