Product Engineer (Mid-Level)

Clera connects exceptional startup talent with early-stage companies backed by top investors like Sequoia, a16z, YC. Our clients build AI-native products, scalable SaaS, and consumer apps where engineers ship fast and influence direction.

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Role overview

• Mid-level Product Engineer (2–8 years) contributing across the full stack for startups scaling product and infrastructure.
• Compensation: $150,000 – $300,000+ base salary depending on experience; many roles include meaningful equity.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end product features: scope requirements, design APIs and data models, implement frontend and backend code, and deploy to production.
• Ship user-facing experiences that balance usability and performance; iterate quickly from user feedback and metrics.
• Integrate AI/LLM capabilities into product flows so intelligence works reliably for end users.
• Design and implement scalable backend services, data schemas, and operational tooling (CI/CD, monitoring, testing).
• Collaborate directly with founders, product, and design to prioritize work, define success metrics, and deliver outcomes.
• Participate in architecture and roadmap discussions; make pragmatic technical tradeoffs appropriate for early-stage growth.

Minimum qualifications

• 2–8 years of software engineering experience, with proven delivery of shipped user-facing products.
• Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript and React/Next.js plus backend experience in Python or Node.js.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
• Demonstrated product sense: you can translate user problems into practical, measurable solutions.
• Experience integrating LLMs or other AI services into production applications (engineering, not research role).
• Comfort operating in small teams with limited process and high ambiguity; ability to move between frontend, backend, and DevOps tasks.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems.
• Familiarity with API design, real-time systems, and scaling high-throughput applications.
• Experience with Cursor or other AI-assisted development workflows.
• Background in regulated industries (healthcare, fintech, legal) or building internal tools for complex domains.

What successful candidates value

• Ownership: you deliver complete features, from database schema to deploy and monitoring.
• User-centric engineering: you prioritize readable, maintainable code that meets real user needs.
• Collaboration: you communicate clearly with product and design and incorporate feedback quickly.
• Learning mindset: you adopt new tools and patterns that accelerate development while maintaining reliability.

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If you're a builder who cares as much about the user as the code, and you want to work somewhere your work ships fast and matters immediately, we want to hear from you.