Staff Engineer – Founding

Clera

Founding Staff Engineer at a fast-growing AI startup, driving technical architecture and engineering excellence across multiple products. Leading a small team to deliver intelligent automation solutions.

Posted 8/2/2026full-timeMunich • 🇩🇪 GermanyLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in full-stack software engineering, with a focus on backend, API, and infrastructure development. Proven ability to mentor teams, improve system performance, and implement AI capabilities while managing technical debt and ensuring high coding standards.

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Full-Stack Software EngineeringBackend DevelopmentCloud Platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP)Containerization (Docker)Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

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Hard Skills

PythonReactTypeScriptAPI DevelopmentSystem Performance ImprovementReliability EngineeringScalabilityTechnical Debt ReductionCode RefactoringAI Capabilities Implementation

Soft Skills

MentoringTeam CollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptabilityCommunication

Industry Keywords

DevOpsEarly-Stage EnvironmentRapid IterationHigh-Paced DeliveryArchitectural Decisions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the technical anchor across multiple products and development streams, owning the highest-leverage engineering work.
Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production-quality code — leading by example, not by committee.
Define and evolve architectural decisions that prevent long-term dead-ends across products and teams.
Own core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure end-to-end.
Eliminate technical debt through disciplined refactoring and by raising reliability and engineering standards organization-wide.
Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback — multiplying team output and reducing hidden risk.
Contribute to the architecture and implementation of AI capabilities, including LLM pipelines and data infrastructure.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production environments.
Deep full-stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills; comfortable on the frontend when needed (Python, React, TypeScript).
Proven experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams.
Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale.
Cloud and DevOps fluency: containerization (Docker), cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
Experience working in an early-stage or founding-team environment — comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and high-paced delivery.
Proven track record of reducing technical debt and refactoring abstractions to raise coding standards across teams.
Experience mentoring engineers through code reviews, pairing, and direct feedback.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Compensation details are not specified for this role.
Joining a founding team member at a well-funded, seed-stage startup with significant scope, ownership, and career upside.