Software Engineer, Growth

About the role: Software Engineer, Growth

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust.

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:

• AI powered Template event suggestions
• Improving the discoverability of Templates
• AI install wizard - get set up and have your data flowing faster

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 A/B tests across our marketing site and product onboarding flows 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

• Develop 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 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
• 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.