Founding Engineer

Title: Founding Engineer Company: Clera Location: Berlin / OnSite

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Founding Engineer at an early-stage freight technology company, you will work across product and engineering to build AI-powered tools for freight operations. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on development, helping evolve early demos into reliable production products and shaping the technical direction as the company grows.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead conversations with customers and translate their needs into product features and technical plans.
• Design, build, and deploy full-stack applications, while advancing the product's AI capabilities.
• Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems.
• Make practical architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
• Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus backend development in Python.
• Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
• Experience taking products from MVP to production, including customer conversations and product feedback.
• Startup or early-stage experience, with sound judgment about architecture and scaling trade-offs.
• Experience with vector databases or semantic search is relevant.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

Hybrid role based in Berlin, Germany. Candidates should be willing to work from Berlin or relocate.