Quora is a privately held, remote-first company focused on growing the world's collective intelligence. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work on their advertising platform, driving projects from ideation to production and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build data-intensive applications for advertisers.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's 'coordination hours' (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 6+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
- 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
- Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
- 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
- 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
- Love of the Quora products