Growth Engineer
What is Fizz
Fizz is America’s biggest college social app, allowing Gen Z to connect around their shared experiences and identities. College Fizz communities feature a private, moderated feed of posts from verified students, making it the most entertaining and authentic way to experience student life. Our newest product, Global Fizz, brings together all of Gen Z nationwide, providing a space to satisfy the 99% of life not on entertainment platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Fizz is on a mission to bring social back to social media.
What we’ve done
We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of which use Fizz every day. Since raising a $25M Series B in July 2023, we have established ourselves as the dominant community platform at 700+ colleges, have begun to generate revenue through advertising, and are actively expanding to communities beyond college.
Where we’re going
We have three primary goals for 2025-2026: continue our expansion to the entire US college market, drive revenue growth through our revolutionary ads business, and rapidly iterate on our product to become the dominant social platform for all of Gen Z, not just US college students.
What you’ll be doing
We’re seeking a Growth Engineer to build the systems and automations that power Fizz’s expansion, monetization, and operational efficiency. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market — working directly with our Head of Product, CTO, CEO, growth, and monetization teams.
You’ll own high-leverage projects across GTM, content management, trust & safety, and monetization, designing systems that eliminate manual work and accelerate our growth.
Specifically, your responsibilities will include:
• Build systems that drive growth: Design and maintain the internal tools, workflows, and automations that power Fizz’s GTM engine, from onboarding flows to campus launch execution.
• Enable operational excellence: Collaborate with ops and trust & safety teams to identify recurring issues, ship quick fixes, and deliver scalable solutions that improve efficiency and reduce pain points.
• Turn data into leverage: Own analytics pipelines, dashboards, and reporting. Write SQL queries, track performance metrics, and ensure teams have accurate and actionable insights.
• Automate the unglamorous stuff: From internal content workflows to systems that manage performance of 500+ Instagram page managers on campus, take on critical but messy challenges that unlock scalability.
• Requirements shaping: You don’t just wait for specs — you proactively talk to ops, growth, and product teams to uncover problems, scope opportunities, and define what should be built.
• Experiment and ship quickly: Prototype Retool apps or lightweight internal tools while also partnering with engineering to design long-term, production-grade systems.
• Be accountable for outcomes: Your work directly impacts Fizz’s ability to expand faster, monetize smarter, and operate more efficiently.
Requirements
• 2+ years of experience in software engineering or growth engineering roles
• Proven track record of building technical systems or products from 0→1 in fast-paced environments
• Strong familiarity with architecting backend stacks and building in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Exceptional communication skills to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Highly data-driven, with the ability to dive deep into analytics while also shaping strategic outcomes
• Comfort moving between scrappy prototyping and long-term systems thinking
• Strong grasp on the psychology of social products and a passion for building authentic experiences for Gen-Z
This is an onsite role based out of our New York, NY (Soho) office. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate.
The primary technologies we work with are Swift, Node, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Mixpanel, and Retool, but prior experience with these specific technologies is not required.
The targeted compensation range for this role is between $120,000 - $170,000 a year, based on job related skills and experience. Fizz full-time employees are eligible for company sponsored benefits and equity.
Top Skills
What We Do
Fizz is a private and authenticated platform designed to revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges. After verifying a university email address, students use Fizz to post questions, memes, polls, and chat directly with other verified students, all while maintaining full control of their identity and privacy. Fizz communities are safe, authentic, and inclusive, made possible through community-based moderation.
Launched by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding into colleges all across the US. In a time when social media is plagued by curated highlight reals and lack of authenticity, Fizz is on a mission to redefine the definition of a true social network.
