Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Focus at Pear VC

New York, New York, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

Pharma, Medtech, Life SciencesIndustries

Requirements

5+ years backend engineering experience in fast-paced product teams
2+ years of Python experience, including async programming
Expertise with one or more frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Django
Strong experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) and ORMs (SQLAlchemy or equivalent)
Experience building APIs, background workers, and distributed systems
Understanding of how LLMs, embeddings, or RAG workflows function
Startup experience or demonstrated ownership in complex backend projects
Nice to haves
Familiarity with Celery, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other LLM orchestration tools
Exposure to RAG or context injection workflows
Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kafka, or PyTorch
Background in healthcare, data security, or

Responsibilities

Design and own major modules of our backend architecture (APIs, workers, orchestration)
Optimize performance and reliability of data processing and AI inference systems
Build and maintain LLM-powered backend features and multi-step workflows
Collaborate with product and AI teams to launch performant, production-grade AI features
Improve observability, traceability, and modularity of backend systems
Lead customer-focused feature delivery with high attention to security and compliance

Skills

Data Pipelines

APIs

Real-time Inference

LLM Ops

System Design

Multi-Tenant Infrastructure

AI Performance Tuning

Retrieval Pipelines

Async Workers

Secure APIs

Pear VC

Venture capital firm for early-stage startups

About Pear VC

Pear VC specializes in providing venture capital for pre-seed and seed stage investments. The firm collaborates with founders to transform innovative ideas into successful companies across various sectors, including AI, healthcare, fintech, and more. Their investment strategy focuses on early-stage startups, offering not just financial support but also expertise and a strong network to help these businesses grow. Pear VC distinguishes itself from competitors through its hands-on approach, providing strategic advice and operational assistance to ensure startups remain agile and focused on their customers. The goal of Pear VC is to guide startups through their early development phases, helping them achieve significant growth and success.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2013Year Founded

$2,738.4MTotal Funding

UNKNOWNCompany Stage

Venture Capital, Fintech, AI & Machine LearningIndustries

51-200Employees