# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage energy software team building tools for industrial battery storage. As a Founding Engineer, you will shape the product across backend services, operator interfaces, and cloud infrastructure, helping battery operators manage and optimize distributed energy assets. 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 their assets. Design and scale cloud infrastructure for distributed battery systems. Deploy production-ready optimizations and improve them using real-world feedback. Work with cross-functional teammates to define product features and requirements. What We're Looking For Founding or founding product engineering experience at an early-stage startup. Up to five years of work experience, with graduation in 2023 or later. Full-stack familiarity with React and TypeScript, Python, and Tailwind CSS. Hands-on experience with energy systems, energy management controllers, and the energy industry. Experience deploying production optimizations and a solid understanding of mixed-integer optimization. Cloud infrastructure

- **Id**: 4320172
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-195>
- **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**: 2026-11-14T17:06:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T05:45:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1678
- **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**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 70000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 110287

## 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**: 1

## 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: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 6; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 6 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.361
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 110287
- **Is top pay**: no

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