Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
San Francisco, Remote. Posted 27 days ago
The role
You will design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel on Android. You will lead experiments end-to-end and own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces.
What you will do
- Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel on Android
- Lead experiments end-to-end from hypothesis to rollout
- Build flag-driven and server-driven patterns for testing
- Own in-app purchase and paywall surfaces including billing integrations
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences
- Partner with web and design engineers for cross-platform consistency
- Partner with Growth to optimize app store performance and attribution
- Optimize metrics like install-to-activation, retention, and paid conversion
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and Mobile teams
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer apps at meaningful scale on Android
- Strong native skills — Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
- Experience owning a full release cycle
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms
- Comfort data-informed decision-making
- Strong product judgment
- Self-motivated with strong ownership instincts
- Genuine interest and adoption of AI products
Nice to have
- Direct experience on a growth or experimentation-heavy team
- Deep experience with in-app payments
- Experience with mobile attribution and measurement stacks (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch) and paid mobile acquisition
- ASO experience, including store listing experiments and localized metadata
- Comfort reaching into the backend or web stack to unblock yourself end-to-end
- Time spent at a fast-growing startup or on a high-ownership engineering team
About the company
Perplexity launched Computer, a product for the era of agentic AI. The Growth team owns product loops to help people discover, adopt, and build habits around AI experiences.