Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Who you are
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 5+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
- 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
- Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
- 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
- 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
- Love of the Quora products
What the job involves
- Since we first launched our advertising platform, we've already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 300 million monthly unique visitors on Quora
- Today, we're working on a broad range of areas to support our data-intensive needs: metrics and insights reporting, audience targeting, low-latency real-time ad delivery, and a suite of advertiser tools to create and optimize campaigns, to name just a few
- 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
About Quora
The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people’s heads, or buried in books and papers that only experts can access. Our mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge, and we're building a world-class team to help us achieve this mission.
To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products:
Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
Visit quora.com/careers to browse open roles and apply online.
Quora company blog: blog.quora.com Engineering blog: engineering.quora.com Design blog: design.quora.com Data blog: data.quora.com Recruiting blog: interviewingatquora.quora.com/ Intern blog: quorainterns.quora.com
Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Who you are
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 5+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
- 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
- Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
- 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
- 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
- Love of the Quora products
What the job involves
- Since we first launched our advertising platform, we've already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 300 million monthly unique visitors on Quora
- Today, we're working on a broad range of areas to support our data-intensive needs: metrics and insights reporting, audience targeting, low-latency real-time ad delivery, and a suite of advertiser tools to create and optimize campaigns, to name just a few
- 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
About Quora
The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people’s heads, or buried in books and papers that only experts can access. Our mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge, and we're building a world-class team to help us achieve this mission.
To do so, we have two knowledge sharing products:
Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 400M monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others.
Poe: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini Pro, DALL-E 3 and more. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models.
Visit quora.com/careers to browse open roles and apply online.
Quora company blog: blog.quora.com Engineering blog: engineering.quora.com Design blog: design.quora.com Data blog: data.quora.com Recruiting blog: interviewingatquora.quora.com/ Intern blog: quorainterns.quora.com