Software Engineer, Growth

Posted Yesterday
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
188K-254K Annually
Mid level
Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
Turn data into decisions. We're helping the world learn from its data with event analytics everyone can use. Let's build
The Role
Build full-stack AI-powered analytics features across React frontend experiences, Python backend services, query orchestration, dashboards, notifications, and interactive workflows. Collaborate with Product, Design, and AI teams; integrate agent infrastructure; measure feature adoption and insight quality; and participate in on-call rotation. The role requires strong frontend, backend, data, debugging, communication, and ownership skills in a greenfield environment.
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About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com.

About the Team

The Growth Engineering team at Mixpanel is responsible for increasing user activation and driving self-serve revenue. We work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to grow the funnel of customers landing on our platform, implementing Mixpanel, and seeing value fast. We move fast, experiment constantly, and measure everything.

Within growth: this role is for the Top of Funnel Pod, a small crew specifically targeting user acquisition and activation. Some examples of what we’ve shipped lately:

  • Agentic onboarding
  • Experiment: Home page new feature product setup nudges
  • Experiment: MCP connection
About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Growth team, you will build and optimize the experiences that drive user acquisition, activation, and conversion at Mixpanel. A key focus of this role is web experimentation — you'll design, implement, and analyze experiments across our product onboarding flows and other surface areas to improve key growth metrics. You'll work across the full stack, from frontend UI changes to backend data pipelines, and collaborate with Product and Design to turn experiment insights into product improvements. This is a high-impact role where your work directly influences Mixpanel's top-of-funnel growth and self-serve revenue.

Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and analyze experiments across Mixpanel's product and onboarding flows to optimize acquisition and activation metrics
  • Partner with Product and Design to identify high-impact experiment hypotheses grounded in data and user research
  • Instrument tracking and build dashboards (in Mixpanel!) to measure experiment outcomes and inform iteration
  • Build and improve onboarding experiences that drive down time to value, and increase activation rates for new Mixpanel users
  • Participate in team on-call rotation to improve our systems and keep them healthy
We're Looking For Someone Who Has
  • At least 2 years of full-stack software engineering experience
  • Excellent debugging and technical investigation skills
  • Comfort using modern AI coding tools
  • Experience running growth experimentation
  • Strong technical communication, ideally with experience collaborating in an asynchronous remote environment
  • Ability to move fast and iterate — you take ownership of problems and focus on delivering value to users
  • A data-driven mindset
Bonus Points For
  • Interest in leveraging AI/GenAI to accelerate experimentation workflows
  • Prior experience on a growth engineering team or in a growth-focused role
  • React / TypeScript experience
  • Django / Python experience
  • Experience with experimentation platforms (e.g. Mixpanel, Optimizely, LaunchDarkly, Statsig, or similar)
 

Benefits and Perks

  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

  • Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
  • Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
  • One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
  • Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
  • Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
  • Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 2 to 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong full-stack fundamentals across frontend, backend, and data layers
  • Excellent debugging and technical investigation skills
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Ability to work quickly and iterate in ambiguous, greenfield problem spaces
  • Data-driven mindset and curiosity about analytics tools
  • Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, or tool-use frameworks
  • React and TypeScript experience
  • Django and Python experience
  • Familiarity with analytics or observability platforms
  • Interest in information retrieval, anomaly detection, or statistical analysis
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
410 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform that allows anyone to get answers from their customer and revenue data in seconds. It offers powerful real-time charts and visualizations of how people interact with your digital products and company. With insights into behaviors like conversion and retention, teams can collaborate more effectively and make informed decisions. Regardless of technical expertise, builders can double down on what’s working, cut what isn’t, and spend more time on their best ideas with Mixpanel. Mixpanel serves over 8,000 customers from different industries around the world, including global leaders like Uber, Yelp, Zalora, BuzzFeed, eToro, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: http://www.mixpanel.com

Why Work With Us

Being a part of the Mixpanel team means driving innovation in a culture that celebrates creativity and fosters belonging. We believe bringing your full self to work enables your best work. At Mixpanel, we focus on what truly matters—our people, customers, and partners, recognizing these relationships as our most valuable assets.

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