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Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Comet and Native Apps)

Backend Developer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 San Francisco

Perplexity is looking for experienced Generalist Software Engineers to join the Comet and Perplexity native application teams, reshaping knowledge work through high-impact Comet and Computer native apps.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product teams to implement novel mobile experiences
  • Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI
  • Utilize Perplexity Computer and other agentic coding tools to accelerate development
  • Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze and improve the end-to-end experience
  • Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release and monitoring

Requirements

  • 4+ years of industry experience
  • Experience shipping high-quality native applications
  • Architecture experience writing code understandable by both agents and humans
  • Deep understanding of app performance
  • Ability to own projects and surfaces, and push them forward proactively

Soft skills

Self-driven ownership of projects and proactive follow-throughAbility to ramp up quickly across multiple codebases

About the company

Perplexity is reshaping knowledge work through its high-impact Comet and Computer native apps; the stack spans Chromium, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript and Perplexity's own core AI stack.

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