# Founding Engineer at Clera

Founding Engineer at Clera in Berlin. On-site, full-time. Posted November 3, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: Berlin
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/964614cc-ceea-4370-96f6-4996f772338f/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-clera-04bab4

## Requirements

- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
- Broad product-engineering experience across backend systems and user-facing applications, rather than a focus limited to one discipline.
- Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, as well as Python backend development.
- Experience shipping customer-facing LLM features or agents in production, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
- Experience building and deploying scalable products from MVP to production, including moving beyond prototype or demo stages.
- Ability to lead customer conversations, turn feedback into product requirements, and make sensible early-stage architecture trade-offs.
- Experience in a startup or other early-stage environment; freight or logistics technology experience is relevant.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage AI and logistics technology team as a Founding Engineer. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on full-stack engineering to turn AI agent demos into reliable, production-ready tools for freight operations, while helping shape product and technical direction.

### What You'll Do

- Lead customer conversations and translate operational insights into product features and technical strategy.

- Design and build full-stack applications and advance the product's AI capabilities.

- Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems.

- Make pragmatic architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction.

### What We're Looking For

- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.

- Broad product-engineering experience across backend systems and user-facing applications, rather than a focus limited to one discipline.

- Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, as well as Python backend development.

- Experience shipping customer-facing LLM features or agents in production, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

- Experience building and deploying scalable products from MVP to production, including moving beyond prototype or demo stages.

- Ability to lead customer conversations, turn feedback into product requirements, and make sensible early-stage architecture trade-offs.

- Experience in a startup or other early-stage environment; freight or logistics technology experience is relevant.

### Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.

### Location

Hybrid in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be willing to work from Berlin or relocate there.