Founding Product Engineer

About the role

clera, a well‑funded early‑stage fintech startup, is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to join a small senior team building a collaborative financial product. You will own large portions of the stack and work directly with the founders to ship polished, consumer‑facing features for a product that already has a 40,000+ person waitlist.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements across the core product, marketing site, and internal tools.
• Take end‑to‑end ownership of major areas such as debit‑card functionality or internal risk‑assessment tooling, from concept through launch.
• Collaborate with the founder, lead engineer, and designer to architect solutions that delight users.
• Build and wire up APIs using React, TypeScript, Go, and PostgreSQL.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and help scale the product to meet rapidly growing demand.

Required profile

• 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.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• React
• Go
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• AWS
• Terraform
• Docker
• REST APIs
• GraphQL APIs

What we offer

• Salary range $190,000 – $210,000 USD annually.
• Early‑stage equity participation.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.