Staff Fullstack Engineer, Quizlet
Flashcards
$150-230k
+ Equity
Learning tools for students and teachers
Open for applications
Learning tools for students and teachers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-230k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
Quizlet's mission is to give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building rich, interactive web applications
- Deep experience of modern front-end JavaScript libraries and tooling — for example, we use NextJS, React, Redux, Flow, webpack, and Prettier
- Experience working with server-side code and microservices - we use Hack, Node.js, and Python and relational databases
- Demonstrated ability in system architecture and design, understanding of design patterns, and ability to solve complex technical design challenges, with attention to scalability and performance concerns
- Experience leading projects from inception to completion
- Excitement about the impact your work could have on the lives of students and teachers every day
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to mentor junior engineers
- An aptitude for experimentation demonstrated by being hypothesis-driven, metrics focused, and eager to test and iterate
What the job involves
- The Memorize and Practice group uses Machine Learning and AI driven technologies to make the learning experience fun and impactful
- The team's goal is to expand Quizlet from a US-focused company with 50M active users to a global education platform serving the world's 1.4B student population
- We're looking for a Staff Fullstack engineer to help us improve our learning experiences
- This will include making constant improvements to our current platform, which is built upon modern tools like React, NextJS, Hack, and Spanner
- This is a hybrid role based out of our Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco offices
- Build user-facing features and ship experiments using React/Redux
- Develop server-side code using Hack
- Collaborate with other engineers to design and implement APIs
- Build automation and abstractions (such as reusable UI components) to improve development speed
- Architect and implement data fetching and state management systems on the front end
- Work with product designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our product
- Identify and implement performance improvements to our website
- Participate in design, code, and architecture reviews
- Observe user testing to understand and improve usability
- Investigate new technologies that may be of use to the team
- Example Projects:
- Design A/B tests to learn and improve new user experiences through data driven decision making
- In collaboration with the data science and machine learning teams, design and build power-user features to add to our premium offerings
- Designing and building RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between different software components, services, or applications
- Analyzing and improving the performance of software applications by optimizing code, database queries, and overall system architecture
- Leading the development of user interfaces and user experiences for applications to enhance usability, accessibility, and user engagement
Our take
Quizlet has built a large-scale business around simple-to-share and simple-to-use products. Its free flashcard maker helps students prepare for exams. Those insights fuel Quizlet Plus, the startup’s subscription product that charges an annual fee for access to more features, including tutoring services.
After a long period of runaway growth, during which the company achieved a $1 billion valuation, Quizlet has been somewhat buffered by the general market downturn affecting the tech sector in 2022, which hit EdTech particularly heavily. It has responded by a shakeup of its leadership team, appointing AirBnB and Starship Technologies veteran Lex Bayer.
With an entrepreneurial management team and a strong user base of over 60 million students and teachers, Quizlet seems likely to weather the current economic situation and resume its growth in the near future.
Freddie
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$30m
SERIES C
Feb 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $62m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
- 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days
- Generous family leave plan
- $1,000 stipend each year for professional development
- $100/month reimbursement towards wellness, plus memberships to physical & mental health resources
- Stock options
- 401k match
- Free lunch and dinner, healthy snacks & drinks daily
- Commuter Benefits - we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA.
Company values
- Help students learn
- Be curious
- Move with purpose
- Be an owner
- Be tough on ideas
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dave Margulius
(Board Member)Currently Advisor at Law Students for Climate Accountability. Previously on the Board of Directors at Churchill Club and Founder at Enterprise Insight.
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