Frontend Software Engineer
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Frontend-focused Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll be developing the future of AI products.
Tech Stack: React | TypeScript | CSS
Teams Hiring
Growth
The Growth team shapes how millions of people experience Perplexity. We rapidly experiment and launch new ideas across all user-facing surfaces at Perplexity including onboarding, verticals like Students, and premium Max Tier. We build AI-powered features such as personalized prompts, auto-generated study guides, and contextual upsell nudges, driving user activation, retention, and revenue across all platforms. We own Perplexity’s growth platform, including experimentation framework, feature flagging, and notifications, to mobilize impactful feature development across the company. Engineers have outsized impact, building both the product and the platform that power our company’s growth.
Commerce
The Commerce team owns the full commerce stack: payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities as we explore what's possible. The team builds and scales billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features. We also develop and maintain secure, scalable systems—including agentic payments that autonomously interact with payment platforms—ensuring reliable financial transactions for millions of users worldwide. By shaping both user experience and revenue infrastructure, the Commerce team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.
Responsibilities
Develop new UX patterns to solve for user experience in an AI world
Work with and improve the components that form the building blocks of Perplexity's frontend
Iterate closely with design to prototype and implement new features
Create scalable UX solutions in a rapidly evolving space.
Analyze performance and reliability of features in a realtime, non-deterministic application.
Key Qualifications
Strong coding fundamentals, and some experience working across the stack.
Ability to build foundations that others can build on top of.
Experience with highly interactive React applications using strongly typed code
Knowledgeable about design and UI patterns at scale
Passion for prototyping, experimentation, and creating accessible experiences
Extreme ownership mindset
Takes pride in getting the small details right
4+ years of industry experience
AI is at the heart of what we build, and using it effectively is an expectation for every role here. During interviews, we want to see how you think and make decisions—qualities that will directly influence our AI development. With that in mind, please avoid using AI tools throughout the process unless we indicate otherwise.