Senior Engineer of Web Foundations, Quizlet
$130-185k
+ Company stock options
Learning tools for students and teachers
Job no longer available
Learning tools for students and teachers
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$130-185k
+ Company 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
- 4+ years software development experience
- The desire to work across team boundaries to understand the needs of our product development teams, and partner with infrastructure teams
- Strong problem solving skills, and attention to the little details needed to make informed decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Plan and execute projects and initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and complex requirements, applying strategic prioritization
- Experience working with server-side code and services - we use Hack, Go, Node.js, and Python and relational databases
- Facility with modern front-end JavaScript libraries and tooling — for example, we use NextJS, React, Redux, Flow, webpack, and Prettier
- 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
- Excitement about the impact your work could have on the lives of students and teachers every day
What the job involves
- The Web Foundations team is responsible for providing a delightful developer experience for our product engineers
- We maintain and support the core services and frameworks used by our development teams, enabling developers to provide a world-class experience to our users
- We're looking for a Senior Engineer to help us speed up delivery and improve the quality of our learning experiences
- This will include making constant improvements to our current frameworks and pipelines, as well as uncovering new opportunities to improve our systems and processes
- Build automation and CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality and reliability of the product
- Develop Go packages and tooling to streamline and ensure consistent software development
- Identify new frameworks and technologies, evaluate adoption, plan and orchestrate migrations and upgrades
- Analyze and improve the performance of software applications by optimizing code, database queries, and overall system architecture
- Participate in design, code, and architecture reviews
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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.
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
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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