Pear-VC
Founding Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area. Posted 5 months ago
The role
As a founding engineer, you will write code and influence the product, company, and engineering culture. You will build core product surfaces, wire up LLM features, and own features from prototype to production.
What you will do
- Write code
- Talk to customers and join pilot calls
- Turn feedback into product changes the same week
- Influence the roadmap directly
- Help close deals by building what matters fast
- Own features end-to-end, from prototype to production
- Build employee-facing guidance UX and manager dashboard
- Wire up LLM features in production
- Set up telemetry and eval systems
- Drive reliability and quality for enterprise buyers
Required qualifications
- Shipping full-stack production-ready products in fast-moving environments
- Strong with TypeScript, React, Next.js, backend APIs, and Postgres
- Comfortable building across web and desktop (Electron, Tauri, or similar)
- Has built LLM-powered features in production
- Production habits: CI/CD, testing, observability, pragmatic system design
- Native with AI coding agents (Claude Code/Codex)
- Obsessive about customer needs
- Comfortable debugging, writing tests, talking to customers, and jumping on a pilot call
Nice to have
- Experience with building browser-based automation tools or developer/enterprise tools
Benefits
- Founding team member
- Shape culture, product, and technology from the ground up
- Real ownership
- Leadership trajectory
- Competitive pay
- Early equity
Before you apply
- Email johnny@joinmodo.com with your GitHub, Resume, 2 to 3 links to things you've shipped, and a short note on the most impressive thing you've built
About the company
Modo is a Seed stage startup that acts as the AI success layer for the enterprise. The company is backed by One Way Ventures, Pear VC, Peterson Ventures, JFF Ventures, and other investors.