Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
Perplexity14 days 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 messaging, conversion, retention, and paid upgrades.
- Lead end-to-end experiments from hypothesis and instrumentation through implementation, analysis, and rollout.
- Build flag-driven and server-driven experimentation patterns for versioned mobile applications.
- Own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces, including billing integrations, subscription and credit purchase flows, entitlement correctness, and pricing experiments.
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences with permission prompts, targeting, timing, deep links, and retention instrumentation.
- Partner with web, iOS, design, Product, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and core Mobile teams on consistent cross-platform experiences.
- Optimize app store performance, attribution, and growth metrics including activation, retention, notification engagement, and paid conversion.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer Android applications at meaningful scale.
- Strong native Android skills with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Experience owning a full mobile release cycle, including build and release tooling, phased rollouts, store review, crash and regression monitoring, and safe rollback.
- Ability to execute multiple experiments and product improvements in parallel and drive them to measurable outcomes.
- Familiarity with 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 interest in adopting and learning AI products.
- Preferred qualifications include growth or experimentation-team experience, in-app payments expertise, mobile attribution experience with AppsFlyer, Adjust, or Branch, ASO experience, backend or web-stack familiarity, and startup experience.
Tech Stack
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.