About this role
Engineers who thrive on building foundational systems at the intersection of AI agents and product growth will find a compelling challenge in this position. Replit operates an agentic software creation platform designed to help users build applications using natural language. As the founding engineer for Growth Enablement, the selected candidate will set the technical direction for growth systems that connect acquisition to the product experience.
The work spans web, mobile, billing, and data infrastructure. Responsibilities include building agentic systems that monitor performance, diagnose failures, and run approved experiments. The person in this role will collaborate directly with marketing, sales, and partnerships to turn business requirements into scalable technical solutions, designing shared foundations for attribution, audiences, and lifecycle engagement.
Candidates should bring strong backend engineering expertise and a background in handling marketing technology or data pipelines. Success in this position requires operating with autonomy, driving data-informed decisions, and partnering effectively across different departments to shape the future of software creation.
What you will do
- Design agentic growth systems that monitor performance, diagnose failures, run approved experiments, and improve from the results.
- Explore AI-native approaches to answer engine optimization, campaign operations, audience discovery, and measurement.
- Build acquisition measurement across web and mobile, including click-ID capture, identity matching, server-side conversion APIs, and warehouse attribution.
- Create a shared standard for deep links and context transfer across web, iOS, Android, and app-store handoffs.
- Build reusable systems for promotions, referrals, campaign landing pages, fraud controls, attribution, and holdout measurement.
- Build audience pipelines that sync warehouse-defined cohorts and exclusions to each delivery channel.
- Work directly with marketing, sales, and partnerships to turn business needs into technical systems.
What you need
- Bring four or more years of professional software engineering experience, featuring strong backend expertise in TypeScript, Node, Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Demonstrate strong SQL skills alongside practical experience working with a data warehouse and event instrumentation.
- Possess hands-on experience with attribution, marketing technology, deep linking, payment webhooks, or high-scale event pipelines.
- Show a proven record of collaborating with non-engineering partners to turn ambiguous business needs into shipped systems.
Nice to have
- Built growth or martech infrastructure at a consumer or PLG company, such as referral systems, promotion platforms, lifecycle tooling, or CDPs.
- Built agents that act on business data with clear evaluations, permissions, and human controls.
- Experience with experimentation platforms such as Statsig and lifecycle tools such as Iterable.
- Familiarity with privacy and consent handling in marketing data pipelines.
- Experience shipping mobile attribution with OneLink, Universal Links, App Links, SKAN, or payment systems like Stripe.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Equity
- 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
- Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the remote policy for this role?
This is a full-time role that can be held from the Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
What is the compensation range?
The position offers a salary range of $220K to $320K alongside equity offerings.
What kind of projects will I work on?
You will set the technical direction for growth enablement by building agentic systems alongside shared foundations for attribution, audiences, lifecycle engagement, referrals, and promotions. The work spans web, mobile, billing, and data while collaborating directly with marketing, sales, and partnerships.