Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Quora

Core Product, Poe

$174.4-275.8k

For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $179,311 - $283,515 CAD. + Equity

React
TypeScript
Python
GraphQL
Redis
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, Ireland, US
Quora

A place to share knowledge

Open for applications

Quora

A place to share knowledge

1001+ employees

B2CEducationInternet of ThingsLearningSocialMachine LearningProduct ManagementData Integration

Open for applications

$174.4-275.8k

For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $179,311 - $283,515 CAD. + Equity

React
TypeScript
Python
GraphQL
Redis
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, Ireland, US

1001+ employees

B2CEducationInternet of ThingsLearningSocialMachine LearningProduct ManagementData Integration

Company mission

Quora's mission is to empower people to share and grow the world's knowledge.

Role

Who you are

  • You're a team player with strong technical skills, a passion for AI, and an eagerness to learn emerging technologies
  • Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
  • 6+ years of full-time professional full-stack experience building user-facing consumer web products (excluding internships)
  • 5+ years of professional experience with React, Typescript, and GraphQL
  • 5+ years experience in Python or similar programming language
  • Professional experience leveraging backend storage systems such as MySQL, MyRocks, Memcached, or Redis

Desirable

  • Passion for Poe and Quora’s products and mission

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a talented, self-starter staff software engineer to contribute core product features to Poe, a platform for making the power of state-of-the-art AI accessible to all people
  • In this role, you'll have the thrilling opportunity to build cutting-edge features from scratch that will serve millions of people every day
  • As a senior, full-stack member of the team, you will plan, develop, and polish new features that will improve the interaction experience with generative AI models and the bot ecosystem, and take shared ownership of the cross-functional product development cycle
  • Collaborate closely with designers, product, data scientists, QA, and other engineers to implement and deliver interactive, intuitive AI-powered user experiences on Poe
  • Lead a group of engineers to drive a project from start to finish
  • Iterate quickly on projects, from ideation to implementation and launch, using the full web technology stack
  • Be a champion for both user experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices
  • Represent engineering in strategic planning and cross-functional prioritization sessions
  • Coach top technical talent to help establish and grow the team and mentor new hires

Our take

The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people's heads, or buried in books and papers. Quora is changing this.

For a decade now, Quora has been carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community; it’s quietly becoming a database of some of the most thoughtful and useful content on the web.

With its steadily increasing number of monthly users and a revenue stream funded by advertising and subscriptions, Quora is now worth over a billion dollars. It is further building on this success with the introduction of AI functionality, which allows subscribers to ask questions to bots powered by OpenAI and Anthropic models.

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Career progression

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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jan 2024

$75m

LATE VC

May 2019

$60m

SERIES E

Total funding: $361m

Company values

  • Mission First - place long-term, collective impact ahead of personal achievement
  • Drive - aim high and do whatever it takes to get things done
  • Agility - ready to adapt to a changing world
  • Awareness - rigorous in decisions and candid in communication
  • Pragmatism - stay grounded in the outcomes that truly matter for our mission

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Previously studied Computer Science at Caltech before working for Facebook, becoming CTO in 2006 until he co-founded Quora in 2009.

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