# Founding Product Engineer at Clera

Founding Product Engineer at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $190k–$210k. Posted June 3, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $190k–$210k
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/51a42fb5-11a6-4e4f-b088-754cbfd37955/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-product-engineer-clera-zrc5s3

## Requirements

- Strong proficiency in TypeScript (React) on the front end and comfort with Go on the back end.
- Prior experience shipping and maintaining features for B2C / consumer-facing products.
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, and Docker for infrastructure and deployment.
- Experience building and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment with broad ownership.

## Description

### About the Role

A well-funded, early-stage fintech startup is looking for a **Founding Product Engineer** to join a small, senior team building a new kind of collaborative financial product. You'll have broad ownership across the stack, working directly with the founding team to ship high-quality, polished features for a consumer-facing application with a 40,000+ person waitlist.

### What You'll Do

- Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools.

- Take end-to-end ownership of major product areas — such as debit card functionality or internal risk assessment tooling — from concept through launch.

- Work closely with the founder, lead engineer, and designer to architect and implement solutions that delight users.

- Build and wire up APIs across a full stack of React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL.

- Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and contribute to a culture of high-quality engineering.

- Help scale the product to meet rapidly growing consumer demand.

### What We're Looking For

**Required:**

- Strong proficiency in **TypeScript (React)** on the front end and comfort with **Go** on the back end.

- Prior experience shipping and maintaining features for **B2C / consumer-facing products**.

- Solid experience with **PostgreSQL** and **Redis**.

- Familiarity with **AWS, Terraform, and Docker** for infrastructure and deployment.

- Experience building and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment with broad ownership.

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience using AI coding assistants and prototyping tools to accelerate development.

- Background in fintech, payments, or financial services.

- Familiarity with tools like Slack, Linear, GitHub, and Figma.

### Compensation & Benefits

- **Salary:** $190,000 – $210,000 USD annually

- Early-stage equity

- Visa sponsorship is **not available**

### Location

This is a **hybrid** role based in **San Francisco, CA**. Candidates in Los Angeles, CA or New York City, NY may also be considered. Remote-only candidates will not be considered at this time.