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Clera

Senior Backend / Full Stack Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

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Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior
Function
Engineering
Pay
$100K – $200K a year (read from the ad)
Posted
3 days ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $200K a year, is 17% below the median of $240K for senior engineering jobs in San Francisco (middle half $210K – $270K, 1,155 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small engineering team building messaging infrastructure for AI agents. You will own complex systems from architecture through production, helping developers build reliable agent experiences across familiar communication interfaces.

What You'll Do

  • Design and operate highly available backend services for large-scale, real-time messaging workloads.
  • Own projects end to end, including problem definition, architecture, implementation, deployment, observability, and ongoing operation.
  • Build intuitive APIs, SDKs, developer tools, dashboards, and internal platforms.
  • Address distributed systems challenges involving reliability, concurrency, fault tolerance, message delivery, queuing, and consistency.
  • Contribute across backend services, infrastructure, internal tooling, and user-facing developer experiences.
  • Evaluate technical tradeoffs and make pragmatic decisions that balance quality with execution speed.
  • Use AI coding agents thoughtfully while maintaining a strong understanding of code, architecture, and operational impact.
  • Take part in architecture discussions, code reviews, and incident analysis.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and operating production backend systems.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, plus experience with another backend language such as Go, Rust, or Swift.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, networking, databases, and API design.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $100,000 to $200,000 annually, with meaningful equity. H-1B sponsorship and OPT and CPT support are available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

Source

Posted by Clera on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 13 Nov 2026 00:52 UTC; the original is the reference.

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