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Founding Product Engineer

Clera
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/7/2026

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced fullstack product engineer to join our small, senior team at an early-stage fintech startup. You'll work in a fast-paced environment where you can contribute to both front-end and back-end development while building a new kind of financial product from the ground up.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements across our core product, marketing site, and internal tools

  • Take ownership of major product areas and drive them from concept to launch

  • Work closely with the founding team and contract designer to architect and implement high-quality, polished solutions for users

  • Build and wire up APIs for the features you develop, working across our full stack (React, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL)

  • Contribute to a culture of teamwork and high-quality engineering, leveraging AI tools to accelerate development

  • Help scale the product to meet growing user demand

What We're Looking For

  • Strong product sense and experience shipping and maintaining features for consumer-facing products

  • Willingness to own large surface areas of an application from end to end

  • Comfort working in an early-stage startup environment with ambiguity and rapid iteration

  • Proficiency in fullstack development across front-end and back-end technologies

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