Pear VC

Head of Engineering

Pear VC

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • New York

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PostgresPythonReactSQLTypeScript

About the role

  • Build & Scale the Team: Own the engineering hiring pipeline, recruit top talent, and mentor early engineers to establish a high-performing, ownership-driven culture.
  • Execute Hands-On: Contribute directly to the frontend/backend codebase to accelerate velocity, unblock others, and model engineering best practices.
  • Lead Engineering Delivery: Translate business goals into engineering execution, own timelines, and implement lightweight planning, QA, and incident processes.
  • Influence Technical Direction: Partner with the Tech Lead to make foundational architectural decisions and ensure codebase scalability and maintainability.
  • Uphold Quality & Stability: Champion code quality, testing, observability, and system reliability across all development stages.
  • Foster Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align engineering priorities with product milestones and GTM goals.
  • Drive Compliance & Security: Lead technical compliance efforts while embedding security and operational rigor into engineering workflows from day one.
  • Establish Engineering Operations: Introduce clear rituals (e.g. standups, retros, reviews) and tracking systems to build a predictable and accountable team rhythm.

Requirements

  • 7-8+ Years of Industry Experience: Proven track record as a senior, staff, or principal engineer with deep technical contributions across complex systems and production environments.
  • Recent Engineering Leadership (2–3 Years): Hands-on management experience leading small, fast-paced engineering teams (5–10+ engineers), preferably in US-based startups or tech-forward environments.
  • Actively Technical & Builder Mindset: Must have written production code in the last 12–24 months; excited to jump into architecture discussions, code reviews, and unblock engineers through direct contributions.
  • Early-Stage Startup Experience (Seed–Series A): Has operated in 0→1 or 1→10 startup environments and understands the constraints, ambiguity, and velocity of building in early-stage companies.
  • Exposure to High-Execution Cultures and can bring a strong executional rigor to startup chaos.
  • Technical Breadth Across Stack: Proficiency in Python, TypeScript/React, and strong command of SQL/Postgres.
  • System Design & Code Quality Ownership: Demonstrated ability to architect systems that scale, uphold best practices, and instill a culture of engineering excellence from day one.
  • In-person for first 6 months and flex hybrid after.