Agentic Payments Software Engineer - Perplexity AI : Job Details

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 Gill, 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 system. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help revolutionize the way people search and interact online.

• 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
• Work with security and privacy teams to build secure and compliant checkout processes
• Build tools to proactively monitor user experience and improve customer success

• Familiarity with payment networks, card authorizations, policies, invoicing, subscriptions, disputes, and refunds
• Experience working with large datasets, making data-driven decisions, and familiarity with relational and non-relational databases and data warehousing
• Strong full-stack programming skills
• Proven track record in billing roles
• Self-motivated with ownership mindset
• Passion for shipping quality products
• 4+ years of industry experience

• 2+ years experience with Stripe APIs and SDKs
• Experience 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 offers depend on experience and expertise and may vary from listed amounts.

Equity: In addition to salary, equity may be part of the total compensation.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

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