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Founding Product Engineer
Clera
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About this role
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.
Salary insight
The midpoint of this range ($200k) is right around the median disclosed salary for San Francisco roles listed on ForgeApply ($203k across 6,260 jobs).
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