Senior Software Engineer, Quizlet

• 5+ years of experience in backend development with a focus on building reliable and scalable distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, NextJS) and the ability to contribute to building and maintaining user-facing component
• Experience with modern backend frameworks (e.g., Go, Node.js, Python) and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Strong understanding of building and scaling APIs, with some experience in the payments or subscription space being a plus
• Solid system architecture and design skills, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
• Proven ability to contribute to technical projects from design through deployment, including collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Strong interest in solving complex engineering challenges, particularly in payments, financial systems, and transactional workflows

Desirable

• Quizlet’s Payments team plays a critical role in ensuring seamless financial transactions, subscription lifecycles, and payment flows for our users globally
• With millions of users interacting with our platform, we focus on building reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that supports our high volume of payments and subscription services
• This is a high-impact area, with a lot of opportunities to innovate, optimize, and expand the scope of payments at Quizlet
• We are at the intersection of engineering, business, and compliance, which means you’ll have the chance to shape the future of payments and drive key business outcomes
• As a Sr. Software Engineer on the Payments team, you will play a key role in building and optimizing Quizlet’s payments infrastructure
• You’ll work across both backend systems that handle payments and subscriptions at scale, as well as contribute to front-end projects that enhance user payment flows and subscription management
• This role offers the opportunity to lead technical execution on key projects, ensuring our systems are performant, reliable, and aligned with business goals
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers and UX designers, you will take ownership of backend services while also building user-facing features that provide seamless payment experiences
• With significant room for growth and innovation in the payments space, your work will have a direct impact on Quizlet’s expanding subscription services
• Design, build, and maintain backend services that handle payments and subscriptions for millions of users, ensuring they are scalable and reliable
• Contribute to Quizlet’s payments strategy by identifying and implementing improvements to support system scalability and efficiency
• Develop user-facing components and UI features that provide seamless payment and subscription experiences, using modern front-end technologies such as React
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX/UI designers, and frontend engineers, to ensure smooth integration and performance in all payment flows
• Build reusable UI components and abstractions that improve development speed and ensure consistency in payment-related interfaces
• Help ensure the reliability and uptime of the system through thoughtful design, code quality, and incident response when necessary
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, helping to grow their technical skills and contributions to the team
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to support system health and operational excellence
• Stay current with industry trends in payments technology, applying new techniques and tools to enhance system efficiency and reduce costs where possible