Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading design, implementation, and scaling of backend systems that power web, mobile, and browser products.
Tech Stack: Python | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | Redis | FastAPI
Teams Hiring
Enterprise
The Enterprise Team at Perplexity designs and builds core platform features like rich file attachments, secure file and app connectors (using cutting-edge Model Context Protocol), and Spaces for streamlined collaboration—capabilities widely used by both enterprise and regular users. The team owns uniquely challenging domains at the intersection of AI, automation, and knowledge management, directly shaping how millions of people work with private data, files, and productivity apps across Perplexity. Their small, expert group operates with high autonomy, developing systems that set industry standards and deliver massive, visible product impact.
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.
Billing
The Billing team powers how users subscribe to and pay for Perplexity, building seamless subscription experiences across all tiers. We partner with business and finance teams to define new pricing and subscription models, while also driving growth through partner integrations that expand distribution and brand presence. We 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 Billing team sits at the core of Perplexity’s growth and sustainability.
Consumer Verticals
Helping to build new consumer experiences with such as with travel, experiences, dining, shopping, places. We imagine a future where you can research for a new vacation for your family and Perplexity can help you research the best destinations, propose multiple itineraries including hotels, excursions, flights and even find the best restaurants. And once you are happy with it, agents will book entire itinerary, make dinner reservations, and even buy the scuba gear that you need for the trip.
Live Events
Finance: Building a finance page that is feature rich for consumers all the way to finance professionals.
Sports: NFL, NBA, Tennis, F1, Soccer, Cricket, MMA, NCAA. We are building rich pages that show schedules, stats, live games, standings and team pages for all the major sports.
Our compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $300,000
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, 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 some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.
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