Pear-VC

Senior Product Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 10 months ago

The role

You will work directly with customers to build new products and improvements. You will own mission-critical projects including customer onboarding and augmenting the voice agent framework across the entire technical stack.

What you will do

  • Lead architecture and implementation of our real-time voice processing system
  • Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Optimize LLM integration for natural, compliance-aware conversations
  • Develop internal tools for voice agent monitoring and improvement
  • Build customer-facing dashboards and reporting systems
  • Partner with customers to translate requirements into technical solutions
  • Establish engineering best practices and technical standards
  • Drive technical decisions that shape product direction

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 2-5 years of production software engineering experience
  • Strong background in API design
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
  • Excellent problem-solving and architectural thinking
  • Strong communication and organizational skills
  • Owner's mindset with bias for action
  • Lives and breathes product and code quality
  • Endless curiosity and learning drive

Nice to have

  • Experience with real-time audio processing or WebRTC
  • Background in Golang, TypeScript, or React
  • Experience with LLM integration and prompt engineering
  • DevOps and infrastructure automation experience
  • Fintech or financial systems background

Benefits

  • Significant equity ownership

About the company

Kato is building an AI-powered servicing platform that automates critical workflows with full compliance. It is founded by a team with deep operating expertise in financial services and software engineering.