Engineering Manager - Commerce

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the foundation for how commerce works in an AI-native world. The Commerce team will own the full commerce stack : payments infrastructure, agentic commerce capabilities, and emerging monetization opportunities as we explore what's possible.

You will lead, grow, and support a team solving critical problems at the intersection of payments and AI, including :

Building and scaling billing infrastructure across consumer subscriptions, enterprise plans, API usage (Sonar), and premium features

Architecting agentic commerce capabilities that enable seamless in-conversation transactions

Designing reliable, compliant financial systems that can scale with Perplexity's rapid growth

Partnering with external partners to bring new commerce integrations to market

Shaping future monetization strategies as we expand beyond existing revenue models

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of engineers building payments, billing, and commerce systems

Own the technical roadmap for subscription infrastructure and payment integrations

Drive architecture decisions for agentic commerce—defining how Perplexity facilitates transactions within conversational experiences

Collaborate with product, finance, and external partners to ship new commerce capabilities

Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on reliability, velocity, and technical excellence

Qualifications

9+ years of software engineering experience

4+ years of engineering management experience including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent

5+ years of engineering experience on payments or commerce systems at consumer-scale traffic and reliability

Deep experience with Stripe, PayPal, or similar payment platforms

Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects; ability to guide senior engineers in making sound tradeoffs and prioritization decisions

Comfort with ambiguity; parts of this roadmap are still being written

Track record of shipping reliable, compliant financial systems

Nice to Have

Experience with building or integrating with 3rd party to support modern payment rails (ACH, open banking, real-time payments) and multi-rail architectures

Experience supporting various monetization strategies including subscriptions, ads, and marketplace

Experience dealing with fraud prevention solutions and systems

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