Pear-VC

Founding Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area. Posted 12 days ago

The role

You will be a co-architect of the product, platform, and team culture. You will build and scale the core product and make foundational architecture and stack decisions.

What you will do

  • Build customer-facing features end-to-end from requirements through launch.
  • Turn customer feedback and usage data into product improvements.
  • Collaborate with design to translate flows into engineered solutions.
  • Prototype quickly, ship often, and iterate based on usage and metrics.
  • Maintain and improve code quality, tooling, and test coverage.
  • Build, monitor, and improve operational telemetry and observability.
  • Work across the stack to deliver user experiences while balancing performance and scalability.
  • Contribute to technical standards and practices.
  • Participate in architectural discussions.

Required qualifications

  • Full stack engineer with 3 plus years of professional experience building SaaS, AI enabled, or consumer applications.
  • Comfortable moving fast in an early stage environment.
  • Take initiative and care deeply about the quality of work.
  • Roll up sleeves and solve problems.
  • Hold self to a high bar and look for clean, maintainable solutions.
  • Bring a clear point of view on code and product experience.
  • Entrepreneurial by nature.
  • Thrive in ambiguity.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with AI or large language model powered products.
  • Background building consumer facing products, personalization engines, or customer data systems.
  • Previous early stage startup or founding team experience.
  • Experience with social media APIs such as Instagram, TikTok, or Meta.
  • Experience writing infrastructure for observability, performance monitoring, or alerting.

Benefits

  • Office in SF
  • Lunch covered every day in the office
  • Dinner for days you work late
  • Team outings including team dinners, escape rooms, and NFL games
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Unlimited PTO

About the company

Blueberry is building the autonomous 1:1 marketer. The company is a talent-dense team of 7 people, 75% of whom are ex-founders.