Role Summary

As a Frontend Engineer at Perplexity, you will collaborate with the design systems team to create an exceptional user interaction layer for various features. This senior-level position involves developing reusable components and enhancing the building blocks of the frontend, ensuring high-quality user experiences and improved team efficiency.

Benefits & Culture

This remote position offers flexibility in work location, fostering a culture of ownership and pride in detail-oriented work. While specific benefits are not listed, typical tech roles often include opportunities for career growth, a collaborative team environment, and a focus on innovation and experimentation.

Full Job Description

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Frontend-focused Engineer to help revolutionize the way people search and interact online. In this role, you'll be developing the future of AI products.

Responsibilities

Work with the design systems team to build an excellent user interaction layer for all features. This includes both standard reusable components but also primitive pieces of generative UI.
Work with and improve the components that form the building blocks of Perplexity's frontend
Always be thinking about how to improve interaction quality, fit & finish, and team velocity

Key Qualifications

Experience building and maintaining user interface systems at a large scale
Strong coding fundamentals, and some experience working across the stack.
Ability to build foundations that others can build on top of.
Experience with highly interactive React applications using strongly typed code
Knowledgeable about design and UI patterns at scale
Passion for prototyping, experimentation, and creating accessible experiences
Extreme ownership mindset
Takes pride in getting the small details right
4+ years of industry experience

Frontend Engineer - Design Systems