1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript, including RESTful APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines.
- Architect and optimize Postgres databases through schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions, and data integrity practices.
- Build low-latency real-time communication infrastructure using WebSockets and WebRTC for chat, audio, and video.
- Integrate third-party LLM, payment, reservation, notification, and CDN services with robust error handling and monitoring.
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers on model-serving APIs, training data collection, and experimentation workflows.
- Own infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, observability, cloud-cost optimization, and system reliability.
- Design caching, performance, and scaling strategies capable of supporting 10x growth without rewrites.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience building production backend systems, ideally for consumer products, high-traffic applications, or startups.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, including asynchronous patterns, performance optimization, and error handling.
- Expert-level Postgres knowledge, including complex queries, transactions, indexing, connection pooling, and performance tuning.
- Experience designing and scaling RESTful APIs with rate limiting, authentication, caching, and versioning.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP cloud services across compute, storage, databases, and networking.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with WebSockets and WebRTC for real-time communication systems.
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Understanding of security, data privacy, and compliance as core engineering concerns.
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About Pear VC
Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital partnership that invests at pre-seed and seed, pairing capital with hands-on support, mentorship, and programs like its PearX accelerator for founding teams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it backs software and technology startups across categories. Its portfolio includes companies that reached the public markets, such as DoorDash and Guardant Health.