Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clera is a fast-moving, VC-backed insurtech startup building an AI-native platform that is transforming how insurance agencies operate. They are looking for a Backend Engineer who will take full ownership of features from design through deployment and support, working in an innovative engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship features across the backend platform: campaign/workflow engine, integrations layer, and core APIs
- Work directly with a multi-tenant PostgreSQL data model — schema design, migrations, and query performance optimization
- Design and implement event-driven and queue-based workflows using Temporal as the workflow orchestration engine
- Own features end-to-end: design, build, test, deploy, and support in production
- Ship daily using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code / Codex) as a core part of your engineering workflow
- Partner closely with the Head of Engineering on architecture decisions and code reviews
Skills
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript / Node.js — comfortable building and maintaining production APIs and services
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL, including multi-tenant schema design, migrations, and query optimization
- Experience designing and building event-driven / asynchronous workflows using queue-based systems or workflow engines (e.g., Temporal or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to own features end-to-end, from design to production support
- Familiarity with AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar coding assistants — used daily
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring / on-call readiness
- Clear, async-friendly communicator, comfortable working across a distributed international team
- Experience with NestJS or another structured Node.js framework
- AWS experience: RDS, ECS/EKS, Terraform (IaC)
- Experience building or operating LLM/agent systems in production (prompt engineering, agent orchestration, evals)
- Background in insurance, fintech, or another regulated/compliance-heavy vertical
Benefits
- Fully remote role — work from anywhere
- Early-stage equity opportunity
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