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Founding Software Engineer

Clera

Skills

Required

  • AI / LLM
  • payments / accounting / property management / platform software / production software architecture
  • backend
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL

Join an early engineering team building a software platform for property operations. You will shape the core data model and workflows, and develop AI systems that help automate work across leasing, maintenance, and accounting.

Responsibilities

  • Build the data model and workflows that support the property operations platform.
  • Develop AI systems that use property context to complete work, identify missing information, and escalate to people when needed.
  • Make practical engineering decisions in areas requiring accuracy, including payments, financial records, and resident communications.
  • Ship software to users, learn from system gaps and user feedback, and iterate.

Requirements

  • Experience taking projects from problem definition through launch and iteration, ideally at an early-stage startup or as a founder or early engineer.
  • Hands-on experience building and shipping production software end to end, in a backend or full-stack role.
  • Comfort with TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL, or the ability to learn them quickly. Experience with other stacks is welcome.
  • Experience building AI or LLM systems, payments, accounting, property management, platform software, or production software architecture.
  • Startup experience and the ability to take ownership, learn quickly, and work well amid ambiguity.

Pay

Base salary: $150,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available, including for H-1B transfers.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates should be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate.