Quora is a "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.
About Quora:
Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products:
Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 and more.
Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work.
About the Team and Role:
Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We encourage our engineers to think big and experiment with new ideas. Using continuous deployment, we quickly see our changes in the product and make fast iterations. Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable. Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company.
The Platform team focuses on increasing the productivity of product developers (including product engineers, designers, and data scientists) by creating tools, frameworks, and abstractions that simplify their work. This team's projects span a wide range, from developing libraries of reusable UI components to optimizing site performance.
In this role, you’ll be working with other members of the team across a variety of projects to improve efficiency of product developers, focusing 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.
Responsibilities:
Develop, maintain, and build tools that make Poe and Quora product developers more efficient.
Contribute to building and maintaining reusable UI components used by developers.
Collaborate closely with product teams to identify pain points and understand developer workflow challenges.
Drive proposals and initiatives to address developer challenges and adopt new frameworks.
Minimum Requirements:
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 completion of a 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.
Preferred Requirements:
Experience and strong interest in building tools to support other developers, or client-side performance.
Interest in working full-stack.
Passion for building reliable, performant consumer internet products.
At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings.
Additional Information:
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary. For more information on benefits, visit this link: https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $183,647 - $267,615 USD + equity + benefits.
Canada candidates only: For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $222,078 - $277,387 CAD + equity + benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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