Founding Engineer in ai reruiting starup

Company Description:

Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up that is rethinking the way how top talents find their next dream jobs. We are working with some of the leading start-ups like Cursor, Windsurf and Palantir, many in AI, all VC-backed.

We believe that the recruiting process needs to be talent-first to make it easy to get in touch with those companies, be coached in the journey and actually get hired.

Role Description:

As we are quickly growing and see a massive tech challenge in automating the work of the $600B global headhunting industry, we are looking for a cracked founding engineer. You will work directly with our CTO & Co-Founder Daniel and ship your own features to production every day. You will have a strong impact on building our fully agentic system to automate the headhunting process end-to-end.

Current Set-up: Hacker-Houses in LatAm

• Live & build with a small founding team—think YC sprint, but sunny & adventures
• Zero commute, 10× feedback loops & team bonding
• Our international team flew in from Germany, Canada, Sweden
• Working on the largest talent market – the US – on the same time zone
• It’s very intense but also extremely productive & fun to live and work from the same AirBnb as a team
• Later we are looking to relocate the whole team to San Francisco

Founding team:

• Sebastian (CEO): Serial marketplace founder; scaled learning platform naklar.io to 10k users and built AI-agent products for European manufacturers.
• Daniel (CTO): Founding several VC-funded start-ups, Head of Engineering leading a 15 people team.
• Alexander (COO): Scaled SaaS to 10M ARR as Chief of Staff, worked across recruiting (800 interviews, 30 hires) and GTM.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to help us build Clera into the default way people find jobs. How we build at Clera:

Extreme Ownership – Build and own like a founder, end-to-end.
⚡️ Ship Relentlessly – Launch daily, make real impact every week.
High-output, low-ego. Challenge ideas, support each other.
‍ User-Obsessed – Talent first, always. Talk to users, measure by hiring speed.
Velocity & Grit – Move at founder pace, 7 days a week. All-in, no passengers.

We currently are cash-constrained and compensate with a good equity offer. After our fundraise, we significantly increase the package.

Tech stack: TypeScript, React, Cursor, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, LLM APIs, Trigger.dev