# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage financial technology team building core banking infrastructure for digital assets and AI. As a founding engineer, you will help develop banking systems and services from the ground up, with ownership across design, implementation, and production operations. What You'll Do Ship production code early while learning the codebase, product, and banking domain. Own major projects as an individual contributor, from initial design through production launch. Translate complex financial and banking needs into reliable software that operates at scale. Make decisions on system design, data modeling, and architectural tradeoffs. Work with engineering, product, and clients to shape core banking capabilities. Build automation that reduces recurring manual work, favoring simple and maintainable solutions. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of hands-on backend software engineering experience, including 1 or more years in an early-stage or small startup. Experience shipping production software in banking, financial systems, or core infrastructure at scale. Track record of independently driving significant projects from conception to production. Experi

- **Id**: 4180605
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-193>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:03:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T17:22:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1792
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## 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**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **New York** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T17:22:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 48; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 48 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## 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:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T19:53:54Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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