Clera
Backend-Leaning Product Engineer
San Francisco
No sponsorshipDetected 21 hours ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsRAGResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- You'll navigate messy integrations, legacy systems, and third-party services, and you'll make product and engineering trade-offs with speed and strong judgment.
- This is an early-stage environment where your work has direct, visible impact.
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end - from design and implementation through shipping and iteration.
- Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines.
- Design workflows and orchestration for AI/automation-driven products.
- As a Backend-Leaning Product Engineer, you'll own customer-facing features end-to-end - from design through shipping and iteration.
Requirements
- Experience owning the full lifecycle of customer-facing features: ideation, implementation, and feedback loops.
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US without employer sponsorship.
- Balance full-stack work when required, with a clear emphasis on backend ownership.
- San Francisco, CA - hybrid/in-office required.
Nice to have
- Applied AI or workflow/orchestration experience (agentic workflows, RAG, LLM-enabled features).
- Systems integration experience with external APIs and third-party services.
- Python experience
- modern web/backend stacks are acceptable - engineering quality matters more than stack fit.
- Background as a founding engineer, early startup generalist, or product/backend engineer at a scaling startup.
- Not a fit: Frontend-only, data-only/internal-tools-only, pure DevOps/SRE without product ownership, pure research/ML without shipping experience, or candidates primarily motivated by corporate titles.
- Visa sponsorship is not available - candidates must be authorized to work in the US.
- Open to candidates willing to relocate to SF.
Compensation
- Up to $275,000 depending on experience.
Benefits
- Equity: Meaningful equity package.
Company info
- We're looking for someone who thrives with minimal structure, works closely with founders and customers, and is genuinely excited about building 0-to-1 products in a fast-moving hybrid SF setting.
- Collaborate closely with founders, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US without employer sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Clera's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.