Staff Software Engineer, Quizlet
Client Platform
+ Stock Option Program
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Bishopsgate, London)
Learning tools for students and teachers
Open for applications
Learning tools for students and teachers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Option Program
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Bishopsgate, London)
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
- Proven track record of technical leadership and coaching development teams
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in cross-platform and backend software products
- Expert-level skills in modern programming languages and some level of comfort with multiple development platforms
- Eagerness to learn, grow, and take on new challenges
- Track record of approaching problems from a system-level perspective (e.g. thinking about how backend, frontend, and data work together as a whole)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills across a range of audiences
Desirable
- Track record of identifying and removing team roadblocks before they block the team
- Experience providing technical leadership across multiple teams working on diverse objectives
- Experience in backend and frontend development with an understanding of what it takes to build generic, cross-platform libraries
What the job involves
- As a new team without a firmly defined charter, you will have a big say in what the day-to-day of this position looks like
- That said, this role will be expected to partner closely with leads across our Mobile, Web, Backend, and Platform teams as well as Product and Engineering leadership
- On a daily basis, you will identify areas where the Client Platform team can drive solutions and partner with your leadership, as well as cross-team and functional partners to define what a solution entails
- Additionally, you will roadmap and deliver that work to your team and others
- This work will be highly ambiguous, requiring collaboration across our tech stack and influencing others within the company
- Design, build, and maintain scalable systems that solve key web and mobile client bottlenecks and constraints
- Define and drive Quizlet’s client platform technical strategy, influencing cross-platform teams and cross-functional partners
- Actively provide technical mentorship and guidance to other team members
- Partner effectively with dependent and partner engineering teams, influencing their decisions and designs as appropriate
- Drive incident investigations, post mortems, and retrospectives
- Effectively advocate for long-term improvements to systems and processes
- Implement monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure operational excellence and resiliency
- Stay ahead of industry trends and incorporate new solutions to improve efficiency and reduce costs (both monetary and development/maintenance costs)
Salary benchmarks
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.
Freddie
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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