Founding Product Engineer
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Founding Product Engineer at clera: San Francisco, United States; On-site; Senior; IT; Full Stack Engineer. This listing is part of JobGrid's Software engineer jobs from public company career pages. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: San Francisco, United States, On-site
- Role classification: IT, Full Stack Engineer, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-09.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
About the Role
We're hiring a Founding Product Engineer to join the early team and help shape an enterprise-grade energy procurement platform. You'll take ownership of the full product lifecycle, working closely with customers and founders to turn market data and energy market dynamics into scalable, high-impact solutions.
What You'll Do
Take ownership of the full product lifecycle from design to deployment
Translate product objectives into clear requirements in close collaboration with customers
Design simple, iterative solutions to complex procurement and energy problems
Develop performant backend services for a data-intensive application
Build intuitive, elegant user interfaces for a complex decision-support system
Train time-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production
Develop linear optimisation algorithms that reduce customer energy costs
Help choose and shape the core tech stack, including PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python
What We're Looking For
Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building robust, maintainable, scalable web applications in a high-intensity or startup environment
A product mindset and the ability to deliver full product features independently with customers
Hands-on experience or strong interest in time-series forecasting and/or linear optimisation (preferred)
Comfortable working across backend and frontend domains; familiarity with PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python is a plus, and FastAPI or Supabase experience is welcome but not required
Early-stage startup experience preferred; generalist engineer or former CTO background is a plus, while corporate backgrounds are acceptable with demonstrated startup mindset and grit
Curiosity for energy markets and complex, data-intensive business applications
Willingness to work on-site in Munich the majority of the week (flexibility for occasional remote work)
Location
Munich, Germany