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Pear VC

Founding Engineer

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15 days ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$120k - $160k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own features from concept to production, including scoping, prototyping, building, and iterating based on user feedback.
  • Design and implement AI integrations to reduce administrative burdens for healthcare providers.
  • Build and maintain full-stack features across TypeScript/React frontend and Kotlin backend.
  • Write comprehensive tests to ensure reliability and robustness of healthcare solutions.
  • Continuously refactor and improve the codebase to maintain high velocity and low technical debt.
  • Collaborate with product, clinical, and business stakeholders to translate user needs into technical solutions.
  • Evaluate new AI tools and technologies for potential adoption.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering practices as the company scales.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in early-stage startups.
  • Full-stack product engineering experience with ownership of features from concept to production.
  • Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into production applications.
  • Demonstrated ability to prototype rapidly and iterate based on user feedback.
  • Strong testing discipline focused on user outcomes.
  • Excellent communication skills, especially with non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build technology that directly impacts healthcare for millions of patients.
  • Influence core architecture and engineering culture in a fast-growing startup.
  • Work with meaningful AI applications in high-stakes healthcare scenarios.
  • Collaborate closely with founders and senior teammates in a supportive environment.
  • Visible impact from day one with a small team and big ownership.

Tech Stack

AWSGitHub ActionsJenkinsKotlinPostgreSQLReactRedisSQLTerraformTypeScript