Hybrid Engineering Manager – Commerce

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading a team building AI-native commerce capabilities. Overseeing payment systems and architecting scalable solutions for innovative transactions.

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

Requirements

  • 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

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Includes a 401(k) plan.

Job title

Engineering Manager – Commerce

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$250,000 - $325,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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