Senior Software Engineer, Quora
Full Stack, Developer Tools
$147.2-218k
For British Columbia based applicants, the minimum base salary range is $149,962 - $222,090 CAD + equity
A place to share knowledge
Job no longer available
A place to share knowledge
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$147.2-218k
For British Columbia based applicants, the minimum base salary range is $149,962 - $222,090 CAD + equity
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)
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or a completion of coding bootcamp or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications and frontend architecture
- 4+ years of experience building APIs that are used by large teams
- 2+ years of experience working with React and GraphQL
- Experience with NextJS, Relay or similar modern web framework
Desirable
- Experience and strong interest in building tools to support other developers, or client-side performance. This may include contributions to open source projects
- Interest in working full-stack
- Passion for building reliable, performant consumer internet products
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll be working with other members of the team across a variety of projects to improve efficiency of product developers, with a focus on supporting the Poe product
- You'll work closely with Poe product teams to understand pain points and build tools to increase their velocity
- You'll be working mainly with Python and modern Javascript frameworks like React, NextJS, GraphQL and Relay
- This role is great for full-stack generalists who enjoy empowering other developers, eager to learn and execute in different parts of the stack
- Develop, maintain and build tools that make Poe and Quora product developers (engineers, designers, data scientists) more efficient
- Contribute to building and maintaining reusable UI components used by developers
- Work closely with product teams to understand pain points and developer workflow challenges
- Drive proposals and initiatives to address developer challenges and adopt new frameworks
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
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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
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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