Founding Product Engineer
Clera
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- €80,000 – €120,000 annual salary plus equity
- 3+ years of product engineering experience
- Native-level German proficiency required
- Full-stack expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React
- Remote‑first role with CET timezone overlap
- Experience with AI/LLM integration is a strong advantage
Role overview
This is a founding-level Product Engineer role on the Engineering team of a fast-growing European AI communication startup, building an AI phone assistant used by thousands of SMEs across Europe. You'll take end-to-end ownership of product features — from hypothesis and prototype all the way to production — sitting at the intersection of engineering, product thinking, and customer insight.
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end, driving them from initial hypothesis through experimentation and into production.
- Lead product discovery by designing and running rapid experiments to validate ideas before committing to full builds.
- Maintain close, recurring contact with customers, partners, and the Sales team to surface and prioritise real pain points.
- Design and implement tracking and analytics to support data-driven product decisions.
- Build across the full stack, contributing to architecture decisions and seeing them through to release.
- Balance pragmatic short-term validation with long-term scalability in every solution.
- Take radical ownership of initiatives and move them forward autonomously.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Product Engineering, delivering end-to-end software features.
- Strong full-stack skills across Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and React.
- Experience integrating software with external systems such as CRMs, calendar tools, and databases.
- Ability to identify, track, and act on relevant product metrics to drive decisions.
- Experience gathering customer feedback and translating pain points into product improvements.
- Native-level German proficiency — essential for supporting a German-language product.
- Fluent English for team and internal communication.
- Comfortable in remote-first, async-heavy work environments with CET timezone overlap.
- Deep product mindset — ownership extends well beyond writing code.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/LLM integration (e.g. working with large language model APIs) is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with GDPR compliance and EU AI Act considerations is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity participation
- Fully remote work with optional office in Vienna, Austria
- Remote‑first, async‑heavy environment with CET overlap
Additional details
- Compensation: €80,000 – €120,000 annually, plus equity. No visa sponsorship is available for this role.
- Location: Fully remote, with expected overlap in Central European Time (CET). An optional office in Vienna, Austria is available.
- Originally posted on Himalayas