Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
Perplexity2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own Android growth surfaces across installation, activation, onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades.
- Lead experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout.
- Build flag-driven and server-driven patterns for experimentation without waiting for app store releases.
- Own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces, including billing integrations, subscription and credit purchase flows, entitlement correctness, and pricing and packaging experiments.
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences with permission prompts, targeting, timing, deep links, and retention instrumentation.
- Partner with web, iOS, and design engineers to create consistent cross-platform onboarding, upsell, and in-task experiences.
- Optimize app store performance, attribution, and mobile acquisition with the Growth team.
- Monitor and improve install-to-activation, D1/D7/D30 retention, notification engagement, paid conversion, and habit formation metrics.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and core Mobile teams to turn behavioral signals into durable product surfaces.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer Android apps at meaningful scale.
- Strong native Android development skills with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Experience owning the full mobile release cycle, including build and release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash and regression monitoring, and safe rollback.
- Ability to execute and ship multiple experiments and product improvements in parallel.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms such as Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or in-house equivalents.
- Ability to pull, segment, and interpret funnel data for data-informed decisions.
- Strong product judgment, ownership, self-motivation, and execution.
- Genuine interest in and adoption of AI products, with willingness to learn quickly.
- Experience on a growth or experimentation-heavy team is preferred.
- Deep in-app payments experience is preferred.
- Experience with mobile attribution and measurement stacks such as AppsFlyer, Adjust, or Branch and paid mobile acquisition is preferred.
- ASO experience, including store listing experiments and localized metadata, is preferred.
- Comfort working across backend or web systems and experience at a fast-growing startup or high-ownership engineering team are preferred.
Tech Stack
Jetpack ComposeKotlin
Categories
Growth EngineeringMobile
About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.