Senior Software Engineer, Quizlet
Android
$130-185k
+ Stock options
Learning tools for students and teachers
Open for applications
Learning tools for students and teachers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-185k
+ Stock options
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
- 3+ years of industry experience building consumer Android applications at scale, preferably in Kotlin and Compose
- Proficiency writing testable code with unit and integration tests
- Experience leading complex, multi-month projects independently
- Experience with CS fundamentals, software design patterns, and data structures
- Proficiency with Kotlin, Java, and Git
- Experience with RxJava or Coroutines
- Experience with Dependency Injection (i.e. Hilt or Dagger)
- Experience building high-quality native apps published on Google Play
- Background & experience building apps that support offline mode
- Experience collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team to solve problems through A/B testing and experimentation
- Experience developing apps using Clean Architecture
- Ability to give technical presentations on architecture and other engineering topics
- Experience with in-app purchases and/or subscriptions
- Excitement about the impact your work could have on the lives of students and teachers around the world every day
- Excellent verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform Development
- Taught, tutored, or mentored other engineers
- Have experience successfully advocating architecture improvements to multidisciplinary stakeholders
- Added automated unit and integration tests using JUnit, Espresso, or Robolectric to an existing codebase
- Contributed or improved continuous integration processes with systems like CircleCI or Jenkins
- Proficiency with Gradle
- Proficiency with Retrofit or OrmLite/Room
- Kept yourself up to date with Android’s best practices via conferences or additional training
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced and passionate product-oriented Android engineer to join the team
- You will be a core contributor to the codebase, help mentor other engineers, and have a large influence on important technical decisions
- Most of our projects are cross-functional, so you will work closely with members from Product, Design, Data Science, Data Analytics, Product Support, and User Research to iterate on the Quizlet Android app
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to plan, develop, test, and release features and understand their impact on business metrics
- Advocate for best practices that improve the product and developer experience
- Mentor other engineers
- Refactor Kotlin and legacy Java code to improve the developer experience as well as the app’s performance
- Lead and contribute to projects that improve Quizlet’s Android app from the product backlog or from the Android platform backlog of investment projects
- Review pull requests from your peers
- Automate manual tasks
- Occasionally write multi-platform code using Kotlin Multiplatform to support features on all Quizlet platforms (i.e. iOS, Android, and Web)
- Prototype new Android features
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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