Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Pear VC

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $190,000 - $315,000 per year

Senior

Python

About the role

Design and scale production-grade agents that perform legal tasks with expert-level reasoning
Build and deploy agentic systems using Python to automate, evaluate, and scale end-to-end legal workflows
Rapidly prototype, evaluate, integrate, and test new product features in close partnership with customers and legal team
Develop new AI native workflows: implement streaming, long-running tasks, procedural UX, and balance state-of-the-art with pragmatism
Work closely with founders, legal experts, and product team to deploy AI systems in high-stakes workflows used by lawyers globally

5+ years of experience building products, either in grad school or in production environments; strong Python skills
Demonstrated ability to ship quickly especially in early-stage environments while building scalable enterprise software
Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Do you now or in the future require visa sponsorship to continue working in the United States? (application question)