Senior Backend Engineer, Quizlet

Data Platform

$130-185k

+ Stock Options

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Terraform
Azure
Senior level
Denver
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

Open for applications

Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Open for applications

$130-185k

+ Stock Options

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Terraform
Azure
Senior level
Denver
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

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

  • Experience as a Software Engineer, particularly in backend development in Python and Go
  • Proficiency with microservices development and distributed systems (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) is highly valued
  • Experience with building and maintaining systems in Google Cloud Platform (or AWS and Azure)
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
  • A desire to learn new things and help others learn

Desirable

  • Experience defining architecture, tooling, and strategy for large-scale data processing systems
  • Knowledge and experience building applied ML-based applications are highly preferred

What the job involves

  • The Data Platform team empowers product engineers and data scientists by developing and operating services, tools, and infrastructure to scale Quizlet’s product development both technically and operationally.
  • We tackle longer term projects on the scale of quarters or more. We're passionate about quality at scale, performance engineering, high availability, robust distributed architecture, and clean code.
  • We work with a variety of programming languages and tools to create the right technological solution for each project
  • You will help accelerate and amplify the work of our Product Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, powering intelligent features on Quizlet.com, and helping millions of people learn
  • Help build, scale, and maintain production services and infrastructure that deliver critical data, inferences, and experiences to students and teachers on quizlet.com
  • Accelerate and amplify the work of our Machine Learning Engineers by building infrastructure that streamlines the development, testing, and deployment of machine learning models to production
  • Develop and implement data infrastructure that enables the acquisition and ingestion of event-driven/streaming data sources at scale
  • Support ML engineers in productionizing ML models and features with the goal of developing tools and processes that enable self-service
  • Partner with Product Engineers and Data Scientists to ensure that critical data is delivered to its destination with maximal availability, recoverability, and operational efficiency
  • Collaborate with engineers and leadership across the organization to define the technical vision and build on the technical roadmap for Data Platform

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.

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Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

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

Founders

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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