Senior Staff Software Engineer, Quizlet
Consumer Experiences
$231.6-304.4k
+ stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Learning tools for students and teachers
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Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$231.6-304.4k
+ stock options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
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
- 10+ years of engineering experience building global-scale distributed systems or platforms
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives with long-term business impact
- Strong experience building systems using backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang and/or Front-end technologies such as React, Angular and/or mobile application development experience on iOS, Android
- Deep architectural expertise in large-scale systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and iteration speed
- Strong communication and mentorship skills, with the ability to influence both engineers and executives
- Experience aligning engineering execution with company-level priorities and OKRs
- Experience working with existing systems or approaches that are limiting and successfully driving improvements toward more scalable, reliable, or maintainable solutions
- At Quizlet, we’re excited about passionate people joining our team—even if you don’t check every box on the requirements list
Desirable
- Experience building and scaling education-focused or consumer-facing apps or subscription platforms
- Worked in environments with high data and performance requirements
- Designed systems that are mobile-first products, multi-platform, and incorporating Server Driven UI
- Hands-on involvement in incident management or operational engineering practices
- Full stack experience with exposure to backend systems, web and mobile clients
What the job involves
- Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential
- You’ll be joining a passionate group of engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges
- We’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the technical design, implementation and delivery of user-facing features that are critical to Quizlet’s success
- As a Senior Staff Engineer, you’ll operate across multiple teams, driving complex initiatives, engineering excellence, and build systems that serve millions of learners globally
- This role may span consumer web experiences, mobile platforms, or a blend of both — flexibility and broad technical context are key
- Lead Cross-Team Technical Strategy: Drive tech architecture, implementation and delivery across multiple engineering teams focused on subscriptions, payments, and ads
- Operate in Ambiguity: Navigate vague problem spaces, identify the highest-leverage opportunities, and create clarity across engineering and cross-functional teams
- Drive Systemic and Operational Excellence: Architect systems that are scalable, secure, compliant, and resilient—building highly available and observable services with high bars for uptime, latency, and data consistency
- Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with product, design, data science, finance, legal, and external vendors to deliver high-impact monetization features and infrastructure
- Contribute to Tech Roadmaps: Align technical strategy with product, business, and growth goals—shaping roadmaps that scale systems and increase revenue
- Mentor and Scale Teams: Coach engineers and uplift team capabilities through strong technical guidance and by fostering a culture of autonomy and self-sufficiency
- Partner & Vendor Collaboration: Work with external vendors, legal, finance, and compliance teams to ensure technical alignment and business success
Our take
Quizlet has evolved from a simple flashcard tool into one of the most recognizable consumer learning platforms, now serving over 60M active users. It reaches two-third of US high schoolers and half of college students, putting it among the top 20 US websites and leading education apps on mobile.
Its core strength lies in helping students learn quickly and effectively through tools like flashcards, practice tests, AI-generated study guides, and now course-specific collaborative folders. By focusing on efficiency and relevance, Quizlet has become a go-to resource for students who want targeted, outcome-driven study support. And its collaborative features also allow large groups of students to share and refine materials together, so learning really is a shared experience.
Recent expansions - including Course-Powered Quizlet and its deepened partnership with Brand Metrics - show the platform's continued momentum. With AI-driven personalization, independent ad measurement, and growing peer-recommended content, Quizlet is strengthening trust with advertisers while meeting modern student expectations. And these advancements sure position Quizlet as a leading, forward-thinking plater in ed-tech.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
- Competitive Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
- PTO & Family Benefits: Everyone gets 20 days of PTO, a minimum of 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days off. We also provide resources for growing families, such as Carrot (fertility & family forming) and UrbanSitter (daycare & nannies). Our generous family leave plan offers 12 weeks of leave plus disability leave for birthing mothers when welcoming a new little learner into their family.
- Learning & Development: Here at Quizlet, we invest in our employees’ career development to support learning and professional growth. Employees have access to LinkedIn Learning, an on-demand learning solution designed to help them gain new skills and advance their careers. We host speakers and workshops and also offer support for other professional development opportunities.
- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options and a 401k match that makes saving for retirement easy.
- Wellness: We strive to promote the physical and mental health & well-being of our employees. We offer resources for mental health & well-being, plus a $100/month reimbursement towards wellness and fitness memberships.
- Commuter Benefits: We don’t have a school bus, but we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA. If you decide to work late, your ride home is on us.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kurt Beidler
(CEO)Prior to joining Quizlet in 2024, Kurt was the Co-CEO of Swift. He also spent 17 years at Amazon in various roles, including General Manager of Automotive Sales, Advertising, and Amazon Kids as well as Director of Kindle Content in Beijing.
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