Pear VC

Founding Engineer

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$140k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own features end-to-end from prototype through production and ship code to pilot customers quickly.
  • Build employee-facing guidance UX and manager dashboard product surfaces.
  • Develop across the TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Electron, and Tauri stack.
  • Build production LLM features and establish telemetry and evaluation systems.
  • Translate customer and pilot feedback into rapid product changes and directly influence the roadmap.
  • Help convert pilots into paying contracts through product work.
  • Drive enterprise-grade reliability and quality standards.
  • Architect key system components and help shape engineering culture and hiring as the team grows.
  • Talk with customers, join pilot calls, and help close deals by building high-impact functionality.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping full-stack, production-ready products in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong skills with TypeScript, React, Next.js, backend APIs, and Postgres.
  • Experience building across web and desktop platforms using Electron, Tauri, or similar technologies.
  • Experience building LLM-powered features in production rather than only prototyping them.
  • Production engineering habits including testing, observability, and pragmatic system design.
  • Familiarity with AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex.
  • Comfort debugging, writing tests, speaking with customers, and joining pilot calls.
  • Bonus: experience building browser-based automation tools or developer or enterprise tools.

Benefits

  • Meaningful early equity and founding-team ownership
  • Opportunity to grow into an engineering leadership role
  • In-person work around San Francisco
  • Direct impact on product, technology, culture, and enterprise customer outcomes

Tech Stack

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About Pear VC

11-50 employees

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

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