Engineering Manager (Web) - SF

Perplexity is looking for an engineering manager to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will be responsible for leading the web engineering team.

Engineers at Perplexity design, create, and ship systems that power product experiences across a growing stack. To scale, we are investing in a growing web engineering team that will be responsible for building delightful, interactive, and fast web experiences, collaborating primarily with product and backend teams. As we scale, the frontend at Perplexity is growing quickly both in volume and number of use cases, so it will be critical to be able to manage complex and parallel projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product
• Set standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
• Oversee onboarding and ensure code quality for a growing team
• Work closely with infrastructure, full-stack, and frontend platform teams to instrument logging and build reusable tooling
• Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates

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Our cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000.

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.

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. Includes a 401(k) plan.

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Salary : $250,000 - $300,000