Job Overview
Perplexity is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our innovative team. As a key member of our engineering department, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling the systems that power our API products. Our backend stack includes Python, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes, and is built alongside dedicated in-house AI and search interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Design and Build APIs: Lead the design, expansion, and maintenance of APIs and services.
- Technical Leadership: Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale.
- Collaboration: Work with engineers across the company to determine when existing infrastructure can be leveraged versus when building a bespoke solution is necessary.
- Strategic Alignment: Align technical decisions with the company’s broad strategic initiatives, while advocating for needs specific to emerging new API initiatives.
- Feature Development: Generalize specific customer requests to build features applicable to the broader user base.
Qualifications
- Experience: 4+ years of engineering experience.
- API Expertise: Understand good practices of building and working with natural language/LLM APIs.
- Infrastructure Management: Experience managing infrastructure for API products.
- User Experience: Strong intuition for what will last and scale, ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products.
About Perplexity
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from respected investors in technology, including a $73.6 million Series B round led by IVP and a $62.7 million Series B1 round led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: Our cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000.
- Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity is part of the total compensation package.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents, including a 401(k) plan.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Vision insurance
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k) plan
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