Full Stack Software Engineer - Growth

📋 Description

• • Join Perplexity, a pioneering company at the forefront of revolutionizing online search, learning, and productivity. We are seeking talented and experienced Full Stack Software Engineers to play a pivotal role in translating cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence advancements into tangible product experiences that significantly impact user activation, engagement, and revenue across our rapidly growing user base of millions.
• • In this dynamic role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and scaling innovative 0 to 1 growth products and features. This involves a comprehensive approach, spanning both web and mobile platforms, ensuring a seamless and impactful user experience.
• • You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists. This partnership is crucial for defining product hypotheses, rapidly launching and iterating on experiments, and making swift, data-informed decisions based on observed results.
• • The position demands a proactive and agile mindset, enabling you to launch new features, conduct experiments, execute campaigns, and forge strategic partnerships in a fast-paced environment. A key aspect of this role is balancing the imperative for speed with an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality, robust solutions.
• • A significant part of your contribution will involve building and continuously evolving our core growth infrastructure. This includes developing and enhancing experimentation frameworks, sophisticated notification systems, accurate attribution pipelines, and growth-oriented APIs that empower our product teams.
• • You will be responsible for instrumenting, meticulously monitoring, and deeply analyzing key performance metrics and user feedback. This analytical rigor is essential for identifying actionable opportunities to enhance user activation, improve retention rates, and drive monetization.
• • The ultimate goal is to craft delightful, data-proven user journeys that not only showcase the unique power and value of Perplexity but also demonstrably contribute to measurable business impact.
• • Our tech stack is modern and robust, featuring Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, vLLM, and AWS, providing a rich environment for innovation and technical excellence.
• • At Perplexity, roles and teams are intentionally fluid, fostering an environment of continuous learning and adaptation. By applying for this position, you become eligible to join various teams across Perplexity Engineering, allowing us to best align your unique talents with our organizational needs.
• • During the interview process, we are eager to understand your distinct skills and identify the optimal team and area within our organization where you can experience significant growth and thrive.
• • **Consumer Growth Team Focus:** If you join the Consumer Growth team, you will shape the experience of millions of users across our web and mobile platforms. You'll rapidly experiment with and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces, including onboarding flows, specialized verticals like 'Students,' and our premium 'Max Tier.' This team builds AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges designed to boost user activation, retention, and revenue. You will also contribute to Perplexity's growth platform, owning the experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notification systems to enable rapid and safe deployment of high-leverage features.
• • **Enterprise Growth Team Focus:** For those interested in the Enterprise Growth team, you will build the core platform capabilities that establish Perplexity as a secure, reliable, and adoption-driving product for enterprise clients. This involves owning end-to-end experiences for enterprise authentication (SSO, SCIM, RBAC), organization creation and onboarding (including white-glove and self-serve flows, invitations, and discovery of existing organizations), and administrative controls and visibility. Your work will encompass feature, model, and connector controls, Comet controls, audit logs, usage analytics, and growth-related upsell surfaces, empowering enterprises to deploy Perplexity confidently at scale and achieve measurable business impact.
• • **Commerce Growth Team Focus:** The Commerce Growth team operates at the critical intersection of user experience and revenue infrastructure. You will own the full commerce stack, encompassing payments, billing, and emerging monetization opportunities across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features. This requires developing and maintaining secure, scalable systems that support agentic payments and automated financial workflows, ensuring reliable transactions for millions of users globally while enabling new growth and pricing strategies.
• • We believe in the power of AI to transform how people interact with information. Using AI effectively is an expectation for every role at Perplexity. We are excited to learn about your thought processes and decision-making during interviews, as these qualities directly influence our AI development. While we value your AI skills, please refrain from using AI tools during the application process unless explicitly instructed otherwise.