Staff Software Engineer, Community
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Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 190000 - 245000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Engineering:
Quizlets Product Engineering organization builds the core experiences that help millions of students and teachers achieve their learning goals. We collaborate across teams to achieve user-centric outcomes focusing on developing intuitive interfaces engaging learning tools and robust scalable systems.
Youll be joining a passionate group of engineers designers product managers and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges. Our teams operate with autonomy embrace experimentation and are deeply committed to user-centric design. We value transparency inclusivity and collaboration at all levels.
Our (non-exhaustive) Tech Stack:
Languages: Go PHP Typescript
Frameworks: React
Data: MySQL Spanner BigQuery
Misc: GCP Datadog Growthbook Rollbar Pub/Sub Redis/Valkey Docker/Colima Kubernetes
About the Role:
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Community team you will lead the design development and delivery of user-facing features that enable learners educators and creators to connect and contribute on Quizlet. Working across backend systems and web applications youll build scalable platforms and experiences for creating organizing and interacting within communities. You will partner closely with Product Design Trust & Safety Legal Marketing and cross-functional engineering teams to shape community experiences that are reliable safe and aligned with learning outcomes.
This role requires strong technical leadership including driving architectural decisions improving engineering practices navigating ambiguous problem spaces and coordinating execution across complex initiatives. Youll also help elevate the broader team through technical mentorship design reviews and a high bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.
Were happy to share that this is an onsite position in our Denver office. To help foster team collaboration we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday Wednesday and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency team partnership and supports growth as an employee and organization.
In this role you will:
- Drive technical design implementation and delivery for complex projects that span systems features or teams
- Navigate evolving product spaces define requirements and success metrics and create clarity across engineering and cross-functional partners
- Build and improve scalable reliable maintainable and observable systems that support critical user experiences
- Partner with Product Design Data Science and engineering teams to deliver impactful features that improve learner and business outcomes
- Influence architectural decisions identify high-leverage opportunities and help shape long-term engineering investments
- Support growth of peers through technical guidance design reviews pairing and knowledge sharing
- Break down large initiatives coordinate execution across project teams and proactively mitigate technical risks
- Establish and reinforce best practices across testing observability reliability deployment and developer workflows
What you bring to the table:
- 7 years of engineering experience building and scaling consumer-facing products distributed systems or platform capabilities
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from concept through delivery often coordinating execution across engineers systems or teams
- Strong experience with backend or full-stack technologies with the ability to contribute to architectural and implementation decisions across the stack
- Deep technical design expertise with a focus on scalability maintainability reliability and long-term system health
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience aligning engineering execution with product goals and business outcomes through thoughtful prioritization tradeoff analysis and delivery planning
- A track record of improving systems engineering practices or developer workflows to increase reliability efficiency scalability and team effectiveness
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team quality through technical leadership feedback and strong engineering practices
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience building and scaling education-focused or consumer-facing applications
- Full-stack experience across backend systems and web applications
- Experience with community-driven or multi-user experiences or systems that drive user motivation and engagement
- Experience working in environments with high data or performance requirements
- Experience improving developer experience internal tooling or engineering productivity across teams
- Hands-on involvement in incident management operational excellence or reliability engineering practices
Compensation Benefits & Perks:
- Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps. Total compensation for this role is market competitive including a starting base salary of $190000 - $245000 depending on location and experience as well as company stock options
- Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
- 20 vacation days that we expect you to take!
- Competitive health dental and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO Dental VSP Choice)
- Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
- Paid Family Leave FSA HSA Commuter benefits and Wellness benefits
- 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
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