Staff Backend Engineer, Quora

• If you’re passionate about AI, excited by emerging technologies, and eager to work on a platform with global reach, we’d love to hear from you
• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 6+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications
• 3+ years experience in Python or similar programming language
• Ability to reason about big-picture goals, and identify opportunities to derisk projects to maximize ROI
• Experience leading project teams in a consumer internet or technology company
• A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to join the Creators team to help shape the future of Poe, our rapidly growing AI product
• In this role, you'll work at the forefront of the AI ecosystem to empower bot creators and developers
• You’ll build abstractions and tooling to accelerate bot onboarding, collaborate directly with leading LLM providers to integrate their latest advancements, and improve our external API to support a thriving developer ecosystem
• This is a high-impact role with direct visibility into how creators build and scale on Poe
• As a staff engineer, you’ll drive feature planning and backend implementation, while contributing to a fast-paced, cross-functional product cycle
• Drive projects from ideation to production by working closely with cross-functional teams (design, product, data science, QA, and engineering) and advise on product roadmap
• Be a champion for both user experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the company
• Work with the engineering management team to develop new initiatives and improve existing processes
• Participate in on-call responsibilities to ensure Poe provides a reliable and high quality product