Erstellt am 24. August 2026
Staff Engineer
Clera
München, Bayern 80331, Germany
Vollzeit
Reference: 1726619329
About the Role
This is a founding-level Staff Engineer position at a fast-moving, Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered sales automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll serve as the technical backbone of the engineering organization - owning high-leverage systems across multiple products, setting architectural direction, and raising the bar on quality, reliability, and AI capabilities.
What You'll Do
Salary range: €90,000 - €200,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Candidates must be willing to work in-person full-time.
This is a founding-level Staff Engineer position at a fast-moving, Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered sales automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll serve as the technical backbone of the engineering organization - owning high-leverage systems across multiple products, setting architectural direction, and raising the bar on quality, reliability, and AI capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Own the most complex, highest-leverage engineering work: core systems, shared frameworks, and critical infrastructure.
- Define and evolve architecture decisions that prevent long-term dead-ends across products.
- Spend the majority of your time writing and shipping production code, leading by example.
- Eliminate technical debt by refactoring abstractions and raising reliability and engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback to improve team output and reduce hidden risk.
- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of AI capabilities, including LLM pipelines and data infrastructure.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of solving genuinely hard technical problems in production.
- Deep full-stack expertise with strong backend, API, and infrastructure skills; comfortable on the frontend when needed (Python, React, TypeScript).
- Proven experience designing and evolving systems across multiple products and teams, including long-term architectural strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability at scale.
- Cloud and DevOps fluency: containerization (Docker), cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
- Experience building or integrating AI systems, LLMs, or large-scale data pipelines is a strong plus.
- A hands-on technical leader who mentors by doing and multiplies team effectiveness.
- Mission-driven, pragmatic, and decisive under uncertainty - comfortable operating with intensity in an early-stage environment.
Salary range: €90,000 - €200,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Candidates must be willing to work in-person full-time.
