Growth Engineer (Contract)
Warp
Warp: We're Building the Platform for Agentic Development
Warp began with the vision of reimagining one of the fundamental dev tools—the terminal—to make it more usable and powerful for all developers. As AI has advanced, Warp has evolved beyond its terminal roots into the platform for Agentic Development: a workbench for dispatching agents to code, deploy, and debug production software.
With over half a million active developers and revenue that has grown 16x this year so far, we are in a unique position to impact the future of development. We believe that soon developers will be “tech leads” for groups of agents; rather than opening a code editor to write code or a terminal to write commands, they will open Warp and prompt their computer to build features, fix bugs, and diagnose production issues.
With its starting point as a reimagined command line, Warp is well-positioned to support agent-first workflows: It sits at the lowest level in the dev stack, has access to all of a developer’s context, and is set up for multitasking and long-running processes. In addition, Warp has state-of-the-art code editing features and built-in team knowledge sharing. It’s the right interface for the agentic future.
Our mission has remained the same even as AI has advanced: to empower developers to ship better software more quickly, freeing them to focus on the creative and rewarding aspects of their work.
For more information on our team and culture, we highly recommend reading our How We Work.
Why Growth Engineering?
Warp is rethinking how software engineers write code — moving from “coding by hand” to “coding by prompt.” To succeed, we need to help developers discover, adopt, and unlock the full power of AI-assisted development.
We’re hiring a contract Growth Engineer to accelerate Warp’s highest-priority growth initiatives. You’ll work closely with the Growth and Product teams to design, build, and ship experiments that improve user acquisition, activation, and monetization. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role focused on building and iterating on onboarding flows, in-product education, and conversion-driving features.
You’ll play a key role in shaping how developers first experience Warp and how they integrate it into their workflow.
This is a 3-month contract position with the opportunity to transition to a full-time role, contingent upon performance and business needs.
As a Growth Engineer (Contract), you will…
- Build and ship growth experiments across onboarding, pricing, referrals, and more
- Improve the performance of our self-serve funnel via frontend and backend changes
- Collaborate on A/B tests, analytics instrumentation, and campaign landing pages
- Debug issues across the stack and move fast from idea to live test
- Contribute to the growth strategy and roadmap
You may be a good fit if...
- 5-7 years of software engineering experience with the ability to contribute to complex production environments.
- Comfortable working across the stack (we use Rust for our client app and go + react for our server, but prior language knowledge is not required - we value adaptable engineers.)
- Experience building for growth: funnels, experiments, or growth-focused features
- Data-driven and scrappy: you care about results and think in a hypothesis-driven way
- Available to start quickly and commit full-time for 3 months
Individuals seeking employment at Warp are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Compensation Transparency
Competitive hourly compensation of $75-$95/hour based on experience, with the opportunity to transition to a full-time role including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits after the initial 3-month contract period.
In addition to salary, all employees receive further compensation in the form of equity in the company. This is a meaningful stock option grant with a four-year vesting period and one-year cliff. Your equity is where most of the significant upside potential is. Comparing startup equity is always a bit tricky, so we’re happy to walk you through different valuation scenarios at the offer stage in order to help paint a clearer picture of the upside.
Final total compensation is determined by multiple factors including your experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary & Meaningful Equity – we will stretch to get the right talent on board
- Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits for employees (80% coverage for dependents)
- Flexible remote-first culture, with optional office spaces in NYC and SF for folks who want to work together IRL
- Pre-tax FSA Health Savings Plan
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- 20-days of Paid Time Off
- Unlimited Sick Time Off
- 12 US Holidays
- 16 weeks of paid Parental Leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents
- Twice-a-year company retreats
- Monthly gym and internet stipend
- Guideline 401(k)
- Complimentary OneMedical membership
Individuals seeking employment at Warp are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
About Warp
We are a company run by product-first builders, building a core product for all developers. We are committed to understanding our users deeply. We believe we will ultimately build the best product and business if that team includes developers and designers from a wide range of backgrounds. The early team comes from Google, Dropbox, Gem, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We are looking for passionate individuals to join us and help bring Warp to the world.
We value honesty, humility, and pragmatism, and our core product principle is focusing on the user. If you’re interested in learning more about our company values and what our engineering team culture is like, please take a look at our internal How We Work guide.
We’re very fortunate to be backed by a great group of venture capital firms. In August 2023, we announced a $50M Series B funding round ($73M total raised), led by Sequoia Capital. Our other investors include Google Ventures, Neo, and Box Group. We are also backed by a network of passionate angels, including Dylan Field (Co-Founder and CEO, Figma), Elad Gil (early investor in Airbnb, Pinterest, Stripe, and Square), Jeff Weiner (Executive Chairman and Ex-CEO, LinkedIn), Marc Benioff (Founder and CEO, Salesforce), and Sam Altman (Co-Founder & CEO, OpenAI).
The Product
Here's our latest demo showing some of our current features…
This is just the start, as our plan is to build out a set of experiences in the terminal that don’t exist today like collaboration, environment sharing, rich data types and more.
The Opportunity
The terminal is one of very few tools used by every developer every day, which makes it an ideal gateway to improving all sorts of developer activities. We believe there is an opportunity to build a unicorn-sized business improving the command-line. Our strategy is bottom-up developer adoption, followed by driving revenue through enterprise sales and distribution partnerships.
To start, our goal is to become the everyday terminal of choice with individual users – immediately usable as a backwards-compatible terminal replacement with the developer’s shell of choice. We have built a closed-source server, which will implement all of the cloud-enabled features. These features will invite users to share their work with others, driving growth and encouraging collaboration. We’ll also focus on building a community and an ecosystem of terminal plugins and apps, creating network effects.
At higher levels of team penetration, we will offer an enterprise plan with features around privacy, security and environment management (e.g. secure distribution and management of API keys). These larger enterprise plans will be the ultimate driver of revenue, along with potential distribution deals for companies that see CLI integrations as a way to reach new customers.
A couple college students, totally unprompted, wrote a piece on why new students should work at Warp as part of their new newsletter they are launching called "Why You Should Join." It's an incredibly well researched and thoughtful article about the market and competitive landscape, and accurately reflects our thesis. Read it here.