Android Engineer - Comet For Android

at Perplexity AI
📍 London, United Kingdom
📍 Belgrade, Serbia
📍 New York City, United States
📍 Palo Alto, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
USD 200,000-400,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Kotlin @ 3 Machine Learning @ 3 Data Science @ 3 Android @ 3 Jetpack Compose @ 3 Databricks @ 3 QA @ 3

Details

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a performant native Android app that millions of users around the world enjoy using.
  • Ensure a high craft and quality bar, both in the user experience and the developer experience.
  • Work closely with design teams to design fast and intuitive UI.
  • Collaborate with data science and machine learning teams to instrument, analyze, and improve the end-to-end experience.
  • Work with infrastructure and QA teams on deployment processes, including testing, release, and monitoring.

Requirements

  • 4+ years industry experience
  • Expertise in Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
  • Strong Android fundamentals and a proven track record of working with a modern Android stack built in Kotlin
  • Understands how to manage performance and speed
  • (Preferred) Deep experience with Gradle, JNI, Kotlinization of codebases and tooling in large codebases
  • (Preferred) Experience with Chromium development for Android
  • Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership
  • A passion for shipping

Benefits

  • Cash compensation range: $200,000 - $400,000 per year
  • 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