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Founding Product Engineer

Clera

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • backend services
  • time-series forecasting / linear optimization
  • full-stack / machine-learning
  • frontend interfaces
  • complex decision-support systems
  • frontend and backend development
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • Supabase

Preferred

  • decision-support workflows

Join an early-stage energy technology team building an enterprise-grade platform for energy procurement and management. You will work closely with customers and the founding team to turn market data and energy market dynamics into practical, scalable products.

Responsibilities

  • Own product features from discovery and design through development and deployment.
  • Translate customer needs and product objectives into clear requirements.
  • Build performant backend services for a data-intensive application.
  • Create intuitive interfaces for complex energy decision-support workflows.
  • Develop time-series forecasts for power consumption and renewable generation.
  • Build linear optimization algorithms to help reduce energy costs.
  • Help shape the product and its technical foundations.

Requirements

  • At least two years of software engineering experience delivering scalable web applications in an early-stage startup environment.
  • Experience independently shipping full product features in collaboration with customers, with ownership across full-stack or machine-learning product engineering.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building maintainable, scalable applications, including frontend interfaces for complex decision-support systems and backend services for data-intensive products.
  • Fluent spoken and written German, and a product-minded, hands-on approach suited to an early-stage team.
  • Experience across frontend and backend development. PostgreSQL, React, and Python experience are relevant; TypeScript, FastAPI, and Supabase are useful.
  • Experience or strong interest in time-series forecasting and/or linear optimization, with curiosity about energy markets.
  • A strong career signal, such as a high-quality university education, experience at a high-growth startup, or equivalent accomplishments.

Pay

Salary range: €85,000 to €140,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid, based in Munich, Germany. The role requires working on-site most of the week, with occasional remote work.