Staff Software Engineer, Quora

• This role is great for full-stack generalists who enjoy empowering other developers, eager to learn and execute in different parts of the stack
• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or a completion of coding bootcamp or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications and frontend architecture
• 4+ years of experience building APIs that are used by large teams
• 2+ years of experience working with React and GraphQL
• Experience with NextJS, Relay or similar modern web framework

Desirable

• Ur small engineering team works on challenging problems every day
• We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas
• Using continuous deployment, we quickly see our changes in the product and make fast iterations
• Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable
• As an engineering team, Quora also highly values development velocity, and invests heavily in improvements to tools, abstractions, and frameworks to empower developers to move faster and achieve more with a lean team
• Everyone on the engineering team has a huge impact on our product and our company
• The Platform team focuses on increasing the productivity of product developers (including product engineers, designers, and data scientists) by creating tools, frameworks, and abstractions that simplify their work
• This team's projects span a wide range, from developing libraries of reusable UI components and enhancing frontend debugging tools to accelerating code deployment and optimizing site performance
• There are numerous interesting and impactful challenges in improving our frontend frameworks and systems within this modern architecture, encompassing both our AI product, Poe, and the core Quora platform
• In this role, you’ll be working with other members of the team across a variety of projects to improve efficiency of product developers, with a focus on supporting the Poe product
• You'll work closely with Poe product teams to understand pain points and build tools to increase their velocity
• You'll be working mainly with Python and modern Javascript frameworks like React, NextJS, GraphQL and Relay
• Develop, maintain, and build tools that make Poe and Quora product developers (engineers, designers, data scientists) more efficient
• Contribute to building and maintaining reusable UI components used by developers
• Collaborate closely with product teams to identify pain points and understand developer workflow challenges
• Drive proposals and initiatives to address developer challenges and adopt new frameworks