Growth Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Growth Engineer to write the code that turns developers discovering Firecrawl into developers who can't live without it. This is a full-stack engineering role pointed entirely at growth — you'll own the signup, activation, onboarding, and conversion experience, and you'll be measured on the funnel metrics you move, not just the features you ship. You'll instrument, experiment, build, and iterate on the product surfaces that drive our PLG motion. You'll report to our VP of Revenue and Success and own real conversion outcomes from day one.

Compensation

· Base Salary: $225K – $290K

· Equity: Competitive equity

· Hiring Count: 1 – 2 openings

Work Arrangement

· Employment Type: Full-time

· Work Model: Hybrid (San Francisco, CA or Bay Area)

· Location: San Francisco, CA / Bay Area, CA

Key Responsibilities

· Own the growth surfaces end to end: signup, activation, onboarding, and conversion

· Instrument the funnel, run experiments, and ship the changes that move real metrics

· Build full-stack, from the frontend a developer first touches to the backend that powers it

· Treat conversion and activation as your number — you own it, measure it, and move it

· Work close to the data, form hypotheses, test them, and iterate fast on what works

Mandatory Requirements

· Seniority: 5–12 years of experience as a full-stack engineer with hands-on growth work as an IC at an early- or growth-stage startup

· Work Experience: Full-stack ownership of features shipping end-to-end PLG features (onboarding, activation, upgrade prompts) that measurably moved a metric

· Ran growth experiments / A/B tests and analyzed funnels (event tracking, SQL/product analytics) to find growth levers

· Hard Skills: Proficiency with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Node.js

· A/B testing and experimentation frameworks

· AI-native workflow: fluent using AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) to ship faster

· Soft Skills: Trusted IC who shapes the growth roadmap and can partner with leadership to ship product

· Location: Must be based in San Francisco, CA or Bay Area (hybrid work model)

· Work Authorization: Must have legal authorization to work in the US (visa transfers available)

Tech Stack

TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, LLM APIs, Datadog, Vercel, React, Next.js, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS, Anthropic Claude API, Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog

Nice-to-Have

· Built internal tooling that growth/product teams adopted

· Experience with dev-tools or SaaS growth surfaces

· Experience with LLMs in production (prompt engineering, tool use, inference pipelines)

Traits to Avoid

· Pure frontend-only or backend-only specialists

· Growth marketers, SEO/content, lifecycle/CRM, or GTM ops profiles

· Pure research or platform engineers without product instincts

· Treats AI tools as a novelty rather than daily infrastructure