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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Pear VC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Code Coverage, Software Quality, Customer Data Management, Next.js, Performance Monitor
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_3046cc2c49b182020d634e4821f4f952

## About the Role

* A 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 and shipping features that land in the hands of real customers.
 * You take initiative and care deeply about the quality of your work.
 * You do not just point out problems, you roll up your sleeves and solve them.
 * You hold yourself to a high bar and look for clean, maintainable solutions.
 * You bring a clear point of view on what excellent code and product experience looks like while staying collaborative and low ego.
 * Entrepreneurial by nature, you thrive in ambiguity and enjoy shaping product from the ground up.
 * You want to build with others who share the same high standards and ownership mindset.
 * 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.

## Description

Brands with millions of followers rely on Blueberry to authentically engage their customers at scale. As our Founding Engineer, you'll be a co-architect of everything we build at Blueberry. You'll be responsible for shaping the technical foundation of the company: product, platform, and team culture.

You'll work directly with the founders and Founding Designer to:

 * Build and scale the core product that enables brands to authentically engage millions of followers.
 * Make foundational architecture and stack decisions that allow us to move fast today while preparing for global scale tomorrow.
 * Translate customer needs into elegant, resilient technical systems that balance speed, quality, and reliability.
 * Set the tone for our engineering culture - one that is high-caliber, collaborative, and deeply product-minded.

You'll have massive influence over how Blueberry evolves, from the codebase to the customer experience to the engineering org itself.

Tech Stack: Convex, Next.js, AI SDK, and more

What You'll Do

 * Build customer-facing features end-to-end that directly impact how brands engage their followers, from requirements through launch.
 * Turn real customer feedback and usage data into product improvements that feel intuitive and reliable.
 * Collaborate deeply with design to translate flows and interactions into well engineered solutions.
 * Prototype quickly, ship often, and iterate based on usage and metrics.
 * Maintain and improve code quality, tooling, and test coverage so the product remains reliable as we scale.
 * Build, monitor, and improve operational telemetry and observability for user flows that matter.
 * Work across the stack with a focus on delivering delightful user experiences while balancing performance and scalability.
 * Contribute to technical standards and practices that help the engineering team move fast with confidence.
 * Participate in architectural discussions that will influence how the system scales and performs., * Founding-level influence. You will help define product direction, engineering standards, and how the team builds while decisions are still lightweight and impact is high.
 * Product-driven culture. Engineers work closely with design, founders, and customers, with decisions grounded in real usage and outcomes.
 * Momentum with substance. Live customers, early revenue, and strong investor backing mean you are joining at a moment where great execution compounds fast.