Senior Fullstack Engineer, Quizlet
Core Services
$130-185k
+ Stock options
Learning tools for students and teachers
Job no longer available
Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-185k
+ Stock options
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
- We’re looking for a strong fullstack developer who is equally comfortable with frontend and backend development and has experience building out new services
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development
- Strong understanding of Javascript (React, TypeScript, and vanilla), browser APIs, and at least one other scripting language
- Willingness to learn new technologies, such as PHP, Go, Python
- Experience driving projects to completion and working on small to mid-sized teams
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desirable
- Client-server architecture knowledge, including: Cloudflare, Authentication, Email protocols, Caching, AB testing
- Experience working with any of these tools/integrations: Prismic, Braze, Zendesk, BigQuery
- Creating and maintaining service architectures
- Debugging skills
What the job involves
- A successful candidate will enjoy working closely with people from all areas of Quizlet, building new internally facing features, improving integrations with 3rd party software, fixing bugs, and leading projects
- They will learn a lot about marketing and support workflows as well as get exposure to various product integrations and programming languages we use for our core product as well as services our team creates and maintains
- This position provides a great opportunity to work on interesting projects with a team that is frequently solving new problems and working in a large codebase where we frequently get the chance to learn new things
- Work closely with people from all areas of Quizlet, building new internally facing features, improving integrations with 3rd party software, and fixing bugs
- Learn a lot about marketing and support workflows which build on top of services like Braze, Prismic, and Zendesk
- Have a great opportunity to work on interesting projects with a team that is frequently solving new problems and iterating on a large codebase
- Take ownership of mid-size projects to add features to microservices
- Find opportunities to improve data integrations and automated workflows
- The Core Services team builds integrations and tooling to support our Marketing and User Ops teams at Quizlet as well as new services to support our Product teams . We empower our Lifecycle Marketing team to engage with our users in personalized, targeted ways and with information that is relevant to their needs
- For our User Ops team, we aim to reduce the manual steps involved with user support and content moderation to prevent abuse and ensure our users get the product support they need in a timely fashion
- On the Brand Marketing side, our team provides an integration with Prismic to make it easy to create and update content on our website
- We’re a mid-sized team that is frequently involved in cross-team projects on the product side of things at Quizlet, helping other teams integrate and deploy new features for our users
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.
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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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