Software Engineer, Quora
Ads
$120-165k
+ Equity. The salary listed is for US candidates. British Columbia candidates: $90,000 - $138,000 CAD
A place to share knowledge
Open for applications
A place to share knowledge
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$120-165k
+ Equity. The salary listed is for US candidates. British Columbia candidates: $90,000 - $138,000 CAD
1001+ employees
Company mission
Quora's mission is to empower people to share and grow the world's knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 4+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
- Excellent Python, Java, or C++ development skills
- Knowledge of backend storage systems such as MySQL, HBase, Memcached, or Redis
- Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React, Javascript, Typescript
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
Desirable
- 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising, or related areas in monetization & marketing
- 1+ years of experience building with open-source data infrastructure technologies, such as Kafka, Airflow, and Spark
- 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
- Love of the Quora products
What the job involves
- As an engineer on the Ads product team, you'll work on efforts focused on generating revenue for the success of the company and mission
- As part of a highly cross-functional development team, you'll work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, build data-intensive applications and systems to enable advertisers to reach a well-targeted audience, and ensure that our users experience ads comparable to the quality of the content they appear alongside
- Drive projects from ideation to production using the full technology stack
- Architect, design, and implement features for our mission-critical online ad platform at massive scale with data-driven iteration
- Identify high impact features that achieve engineering and revenue goals, and be able to explain rationale for your decisions
- Work with designers, fellow engineers, and data scientists to prototype and implement functionality and analyze impact
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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
"You can add real value and change in a stable, growing org, without the risk of joining a start up or being lost in a massive company. I feel my..."
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
Founders
Adam D'Angelo
(CEO)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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