Software Engineer, Growth
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)