Software Engineer, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 4+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
• Excellent Python, Java, or C++ development skills
• 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

Desirable

• As an engineer on the Ads product team, you'll work on efforts focused on generating revenue for the success of the company and mission
• As part of a highly cross-functional development team, you'll work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, build data-intensive applications and systems to enable advertisers to reach a well-targeted audience, and ensure that our users experience ads comparable to the quality of the content they appear alongside
• 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