Agentic Payments Software Engineer

Job Description

Perplexity is looking for a Software Engineer to design and implement its next-generation billing systems. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. The Software Engineer will be responsible for new feature development to enable Perplexity’s growing billing needs and drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of our billing system.

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

Perplexity offers:

• Equity may be part of the total compensation package
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Includes a 401(k) plan