Founding Backend Engineer

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🕒 December 25, 2025

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Pear VC

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🧬 Biotechnology

Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnology

Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed investments that pairs capital with hands-on founder support. The firm—made up of founders-and-operators turned investors—runs programs like PearX, provides in-house recruiting and talent services, go-to-market and fundraising coaching, PR and marketing support, and physical workspaces (Pear Studio). Pear emphasizes community and tailored resources for diverse founders and has a notable focus on supporting AI and biotech startups through grants, events, and sector-specific playbooks.

📋 Description

• We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our core product. • You'll work closely with our Founders and Engineering team to ship features and improve performance across backend systems -- from databases to data ingestion to AI systems. • Get onboarded, set up your dev environment, and dive into our systems. • Ship a small update or bug fix to get familiar with the codebase. • Use the product to understand how it works and identify areas for improvement. • Ship two major features • Ship features updates daily/weekly with a strong focus on quality. • Collaborate closely with the team and customers to shape the future of the product.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in backend development, ideally with startups or fast-moving teams. • Strong expertise in Python for backend development. • Strong database expertise, including Postgres and/or Elasticsearch. • Experience with modern infrastructure management, including Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. • A bias for action: You ship fast and iterate based on feedback. • Strong product sense: You think beyond the code and care about delivering an exceptional user experience. • Extreme ownership: You're excited to make a mark and you make sure balls don't get dropped.

🏖️ Benefits

• Impact: Your work will directly shape the product and the future of the company. • Growth: High ownership, deep collaboration with company and technical leadership. • Speed: We move fast, ship often, and value autonomy. • Culture: Our team is kind, collaborative, inquisitive, and inclusive – and we want to keep it that way. We have high standards for quality and ethics, and help each other learn in order to reach our objectives.