Pear-VC
Backend Engineer - Known
San Francisco. Posted 12 months ago
The role
You will be a core technical founder building backend systems and infrastructure for Known. You will design scalable backend services, architect database systems, and implement real-time communication infrastructure.
What you will do
- Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js/TypeScript
- Architect and optimize database systems using Postgres
- Implement real-time communication infrastructure using WebSockets and WebRTC
- Integrate and manage third-party services like LLMs and payment platforms
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to build APIs and data pipelines
- Own infrastructure, deployment, and observability
- Design for performance and scale
Required qualifications
- 4–6 years building production backend systems
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js
- Expert-level knowledge of Postgres
- Experience designing and scaling RESTful APIs
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience with WebSockets and WebRTC
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring
About the company
Pear-VC is the company for the Known role.