11 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable Node.js and TypeScript backend services, RESTful APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines for real-time and batch workloads.
- Architect and optimize Postgres schemas, queries, indexes, transactions, connection pooling, and data integrity.
- Implement low-latency WebSocket chat and WebRTC audio/video infrastructure.
- Integrate LLM, payment, reservation, SMS, push notification, and CDN services with robust error handling and monitoring.
- Build APIs and data pipelines supporting model predictions, training data collection, and experimentation workflows.
- Own infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, observability, and cloud cost optimization.
- Design caching and performance strategies that support 10x growth without rewrites.
- Build matching, messaging, notification, analytics, payment, reservation, and conversational infrastructure with reliability and idempotency guarantees.
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 covering 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 or 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 practices including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Awareness of security, data privacy, and compliance as core engineering concerns.
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.