Founding Product Engineer at Clera — Munich, Germany

About The Role

About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at a Y Combinator-backed AI marketing startup, working directly alongside the two founders. You will own full product features from ambiguous problem all the way to live, customer-facing product, and your work will span product thinking, frontend, backend, LLM pipelines, data, and direct customer conversations. It is a true founding-scope role with immediate, meaningful impact.

What You'll Do

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Own product features end to end: figure out what to build, ship it, and keep iterating until it creates real customer value.
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Work closely with the founders and customers to turn conversations into concrete product improvements.
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Build and maintain production full-stack features across frontend, backend, and data layers.
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Design simple, intuitive UX for complex workflows.
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Develop and improve LLM pipelines and agentic workflows within the product.

What We're Looking For

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Approximately 2 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience, with a strong track record appropriate for a first engineering hire.
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Demonstrated early-stage startup or founding experience; big-company-only backgrounds are not a fit.
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Has shipped products from 0 to 1 before and can independently deliver production-quality code.
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Proficient with TypeScript and React; familiarity with Vite, Supabase, Vercel, or ClickHouse is a plus.
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Comfortable working with LLMs and agentic workflows, both in the product and in day-to-day development (e.g., coding agents, MCP, or similar AI-leveraged tools).
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Able to own full-stack product work from an ambiguous brief through to a live feature.
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Communicates clearly and confidently with customers in English.
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Experience in GEO, SEO, or marketing technology is a bonus.
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Based in Munich or able to relocate readily.