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Growth Engineer

Fizz · New York

onsiteunknown$130,000–$170,000Posted Sep 8, 2026Node.jsSQLGoogle CloudAWSAzureBigQueryMongoDBRedis

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**Growth Engineer — Fizz** ## About Fizz Fizz is a Gen Z social platform built to “bring social back to social media.” Starting as a major college social app, Fizz now connects Gen Z globally through private, moderated communities and a new product, **Global Fizz**, designed to capture the 99% of life not on Instagram or TikTok. ## What you’ll be doing You’ll build the systems and automations that power Fizz’s **expansion, monetization, and operational efficiency**, working closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams. **Key responsibilities:** - **Build systems that drive growth:** Design and maintain internal tools, workflows, and automations powering GTM—from onboarding flows to campus launch execution (as real services with data models, APIs, and job pipelines). - **Enable operational excellence:** Partner with Ops and Trust & Safety to identify recurring issues, ship fixes, and deliver scalable improvements. - **Turn data into leverage:** Own analytics pipelines, dashboards, and reporting. Write SQL, track performance metrics, and ensure teams have actionable insights. - **Automate the unglamorous stuff:** Improve internal content workflows and systems that manage performance for **500+ campus Instagram page managers**. - **Shape requirements:** Proactively collaborate with Ops, Growth, and Product to uncover problems, scope opportunities, and define what to build. - **Experiment and ship quickly (then make it last):** Prototype fast (including LLM-driven workflows), then take ownership from prototype to production with durable backend design (data models, idempotency, monitoring, error handling). - **Be accountable for outcomes:** Your work directly impacts faster expansion, smarter monetization, and more efficient operations. ## Requirements - **2+ years** of backend-heavy software engineering (growth, infra, or product engineering) - Proven ability building **technical systems/products from 0→1** in fast-paced environments - Strong backend fundamentals: **data modeling, API design, queues/background jobs, caching** - Hands-on experience architecting/operating services in the cloud (**GCP, AWS, or Azure**) - Exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders - Highly data-driven; able to dive deep into analytics while shaping strategy - Comfortable with **AI coding tools**; able to read/review/debug generated code - Strong grasp of social product psychology and passion for building authentic Gen-Z experiences ## Tech you may use Swift/Kotlin, Node, Google Cloud, BigQuery, MongoDB, Redis (no prior experience required). ## Location & compensation - **Onsite role**: New York, NY (**Soho**) - **Compensation range**: **$130,000 – $170,000/year** (based on skills and experience) - Full-time employees eligible for **company-sponsored benefits and equity** ## Benefits & perks - **Health & Wellness:** 100% company-paid medical/dental/vision premiums (employee-only), 75% for dependents; HSA contributions; One Medical; Teladoc; Talkspace - **Financial & Commuter:** 100% company-paid disability & life insurance; 401(k); flexible spending accounts - **Food & Everyday:** free daily lunch; dinner when working late; fully stocked office kitchen

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