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Perplexity AI

Agentic Payments Software Engineer

San Francisco , United States
On-site

AI overview

Design and implement next-generation billing systems to revolutionize online interactions, collaborating across teams to enhance performance and security.

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 seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design and implement our next-generation billing systems. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help revolutionize the way people search and interact online.

Tech Stack: Stripe | Python | Docker | AWS | Postgresql

Responsibilities

  • Spearhead new feature development to enable Perplexity’s growing billing needs
  • Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of our billing system
  • Collaborate with peers across engineering, finance, and data science teams to ensure precise measurement and reporting
  • Collaborate with security and privacy teams to build secure and compliant agentic checkout
  • Build tools to proactively monitor user experience and improve customer success

Qualifications

  • Familiarity with payment networks, card authorizations, policies, invoicing, subscriptions, disputes, and refunds
  • Experience working with large amounts of data, making data-based decisions to prioritize projects, including familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and modern data warehousing
  • Strong programming skills with the ability to work across the full stack
  • Proven track record in similar billing roles
  • Self-motivated with a willingness to take ownership of tasks
  • A passion for shipping quality products
  • 4+ years of industry experience

Nice to haves

  • 2+ years experience using the Stripe APIs and SDKs
  • Experience working with Apple and Google Play billing processes
  • Experience with growth experimentation
  • Full Stack experience

Our cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $260,000.

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. 

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • 401(k) plan: Includes a 401(k) plan.
Perplexity AI

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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