Founding Product Engineer at Clera
About the 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.