Senior Software Engineer - Email and Notifications (Remote)

[As of June 2020, Quora has become a "remote-first" company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit quora.com/eligible_countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

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. More than a billion people use the internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it. We want to democratize access to knowledge of all kinds — from politics to painting, cooking to coding, etymology to experiences — so if someone out there knows something, anyone else can learn it. 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.

About the Team:

Every day, millions of people seek answers and share their knowledge through Quora. To foster this marketplace of knowledge for over 300 million monthly unique visitors, we need to build systems that make sharing knowledge rewarding and discovering it easy; that show you answers to questions you didn't know you had, on topics you didn't know you liked, and that scale to support the participation of the entire planet.

The Channels team is responsible for the large-scale systems that power all email and notification products. Together, these products fuel Quora’s ecosystem by facilitating the flow of knowledge between the right people, and are critical to user engagement and product growth.

About the Role:

As a senior engineer on the Channels team, you’ll build scalable, reliable systems to distribute millions of personalized emails and notifications per hour. You will also have the opportunity to play a direct role in the planning and prioritization of the team’s roadmap, driving solutions impacting both user-facing and system health metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and evolve robust, large-scale content distribution platforms for notifications and emails

• Develop engaging web and email experiences using the full tech stack

• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to both ship new products and analyze their impact

• Play a major role in team planning, identifying high-impact features to drive system stability and product excellence

• Contribute to the team as a whole through technical leadership, direct mentorship, and other improvements to team process and culture

Minimum Requirements:

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's "coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• 4+ years of professional software development experience building web products

• 2+ years of development experience with data infrastructure technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, and Spark

• 2+ years of backend development experience with storage systems such as MySQL, HBase, or Redis

• Excellent coding skills with proficiency in Python, Java or similar programming language

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to think holistically about a complex, social product, and map big-picture metrics to a realistic, actionable plan

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of web frontend development experience with React, GraphQL, TypeScript

• A consistent track record of successfully leading and coordinating cross-functional projects

• Passion for experimentation and iteration

• Love of the Quora product

Additional Information:

For Colorado based applicants, the minimum salary range is $156,000 - $161,000 + equity + benefits. For California, New Jersey, New York, and. Washington based applicants, the minimum salary range is $184,000 - $189,000 + equity + benefits. There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.

Quora offers a wide range of benefits including medical/dental/vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more. Benefits are country-specific and may vary.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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