Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth)
San Francisco. Posted 29 days ago
The role
You will design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel on iOS. 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 iOS
- 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 and subscription flows
- Build push and lifecycle notification experiences
- Partner with web and design engineers to make cross-platform surfaces feel native
- Partner with Growth to optimize app store performance and attribution
- Optimize metrics including install-to-activation, retention, and paid conversion
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and the core Mobile team
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping consumer apps at meaningful scale on iOS
- Strong native skills (eg. Swift/SwiftUI/Objective-C)
- 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 and willingness to learn quickly
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 that help people discover, adopt, and build habits around AI experiences.