# Backend-Leaning Product Engineer at Clera

Backend-Leaning Product Engineer at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time. Posted June 3, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/29e3b0b0-411a-42ac-8d85-ff5f289da4ca/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/backend-leaning-product-engineer-clera-ffcvma

## Requirements

- Backend-focused software engineering with hands-on experience designing, implementing, and shipping customer-facing features.
- Demonstrated ownership of the full feature lifecycle — ideation, implementation, and iteration based on customer feedback.
- Track record of shipping real products, ideally in 0-to-1 or ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US without employer sponsorship.
- Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; hybrid/in-office presence required.

## Description

### About the Role

Join a small, high-ownership product team at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup as a **backend-leaning product engineer**. You'll own customer-facing features end-to-end, navigate messy integrations and legacy systems, and make product and engineering trade-offs with speed and strong judgment. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and cares deeply about shipping real products that customers use.

### What You'll Do

- Own features end-to-end — from design through shipping and iteration — with minimal PM oversight.

- Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines.

- Integrate with external tools, legacy systems, and third-party services.

- Design workflows and orchestration for AI/automation-driven product features.

- Debug production issues and exercise strong engineering judgment under pressure.

- Collaborate closely with founders, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders in a hybrid San Francisco setting.

- Balance full-stack work when required, with a clear emphasis on backend ownership.

### What We're Looking For

**Required:**

- Backend-focused software engineering with hands-on experience designing, implementing, and shipping customer-facing features.

- Demonstrated ownership of the full feature lifecycle — ideation, implementation, and iteration based on customer feedback.

- Track record of shipping real products, ideally in 0-to-1 or ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

- Must be legally eligible to work in the US without employer sponsorship.

- Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; hybrid/in-office presence required.

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience with applied AI, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, or LLM-enabled features.

- Python proficiency (modern web/backend stacks considered — engineering quality matters more than specific stack).

- Systems integration experience with external APIs and legacy platforms.

- Early-stage startup experience or founding engineer background.

**Not a fit if you are:** frontend-only, data/internal-tools-only, pure DevOps/SRE without product ownership, pure research ML without shipping experience, or primarily motivated by corporate titles.

### Compensation & Benefits

- **Base salary:** up to $275,000 depending on experience.

- **Equity:** meaningful equity package.

- No visa sponsorship available.

### Location

San Francisco, CA — hybrid/on-site. Candidates must be based in SF or willing to relocate.