We are looking for a Senior/Staff Web Platform Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that enable our product teams to deliver high-quality, performant single-page web applications across desktop, mobile web, and the Comet browser.
What you'll do
- Optimize performance for critical web flows (search, answer rendering, browsing), with a focus on improving application response speed and perceived latency.
- Design and implement solutions for customizable user interfaces and experience components across Perplexity and Comet.
What you need
- 6+ years of practical experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on web technologies.
- Deep expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks, particularly React.
- Experience optimizing web application performance and working with metrics such as time-to-first-byte, time-to-interactive, and application response speed.
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