over 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Design and own major backend architecture modules, including APIs, workers, and orchestration.
- Optimize the performance and reliability of data processing and AI inference systems.
- Build and maintain LLM-powered backend features and multi-step workflows.
- Collaborate with product and AI teams to launch performant, production-grade AI features.
- Improve backend observability, traceability, and modularity.
- Lead customer-focused feature delivery with strong attention to security and compliance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in fast-paced product teams.
- 2+ years of Python experience, including asynchronous programming.
- Expertise with one or more of FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Strong experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, and ORMs such as SQLAlchemy or equivalent.
- Experience building APIs, background workers, and distributed systems.
- Understanding of LLMs, embeddings, or RAG workflows.
- Startup experience or demonstrated ownership of complex backend projects.
- Preferred qualifications include familiarity with Celery, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other LLM orchestration tools; RAG or context injection experience; AWS, Terraform, Kafka, or PyTorch experience; and healthcare, data security, or regulated-environment experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Health and wellness stipend plus medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- In-person role based in NYC with flexibility to work remotely on some days.
- Exposure to AI, infrastructure, go-to-market work, and real customers in a high-learning-velocity environment.
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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.