Founding Engineer

Pear VC•Palo Alto, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Blueberry is building an autonomous 1:1 marketer that enables brands to have personalized conversations with customers and improve lifecycle marketing outcomes. The company has seven people, reports rapid growth, and is still developing the systems, playbooks, and leadership team needed to scale. As Founding Engineer, you will help architect Blueberry’s product, platform, and engineering culture. Working directly with the founders and founding engineering team, you will build and scale the product that helps brands engage millions of followers, make foundational architecture and technology-stack decisions, turn customer needs into resilient systems, and shape a collaborative, product-minded engineering culture. The technology stack includes Convex, Next.js, and AI SDK. This role builds customer-facing features end-to-end, incorporates customer feedback and usage data, and works closely with design. You will prototype, ship, and iterate; maintain code quality, tooling, and test coverage; improve telemetry and observability; work across the stack to deliver strong user experiences; establish technical practices; and contribute to architectural decisions. Blueberry emphasizes meaningful early product ownership, influence over product direction and engineering standards, close collaboration with founders, designers, and customers, and a product-driven culture.

Requirements

At least 3 years of professional full-stack engineering experience building SaaS, AI-enabled, or consumer applications.
Comfort moving quickly in an early-stage environment and shipping features to real customers.
Takes initiative and cares deeply about work quality.
Willingness to take ownership of problems and solve them directly.
Commitment to clean, maintainable solutions and a high standard for code and product experience.
Collaborative, low-ego approach and ability to work in ambiguity.
Entrepreneurial mindset and interest in shaping a product from the ground up.
Interest in working with teammates who share high standards and an ownership mindset.

Nice To Haves

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 building infrastructure for observability, performance monitoring, or alerting.

Responsibilities

Build customer-facing features end-to-end, from requirements through launch.
Build and scale the core product that enables brands to engage their followers.
Make foundational architecture and technology-stack decisions for current speed and future scale.
Translate customer needs, feedback, and usage data into intuitive, reliable product improvements and technical systems.
Collaborate with design to implement flows and interactions as well-engineered solutions.
Prototype quickly, ship often, and iterate based on usage and metrics.
Maintain and improve code quality, tooling, and test coverage.
Build, monitor, and improve operational telemetry and observability for important user flows.
Work across the stack, balancing user experience, performance, and scalability.
Contribute to technical standards and practices that help the engineering team move quickly with confidence.
Participate in architectural discussions about system scale and performance.
Help define product direction, engineering standards, and the company’s engineering culture.