Sr. Fullstack Engineer, Magic Notes
Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA
Engineering – Product Engineering /
Full-time /
Hybrid
About the Team:
The Memorize and Practice group uses Machine Learning and AI driven technologies to make the learning experience fun and impactful. The team's goal is to expand Quizlet from a US-focused company with 50M active users to a global education platform serving the world's 1.4B student population.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Senior Fullstack engineer to help us improve our learning experiences. This will include making constant improvements to our current platform, which is built upon modern tools like React, NextJS, Hack, and Spanner.
This is a hybrid role based out of our Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco offices.
In this role, you will:
- Build user-facing features and ship experiments using React/Redux
- Develop server-side code using Hack
- Collaborate with other engineers to design and implement APIs
- Build automation and abstractions (such as reusable UI components) to improve development speed
- Architect and implement data fetching and state management systems on the front end
- Work with product designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our product
- Identify and implement performance improvements to our website
- Participate in design, code, and architecture reviews
- Observe user testing to understand and improve usability
- Investigate new technologies that may be of use to the team
- Design A/B tests to learn and improve new user experiences through data driven decision making
- In collaboration with the data science and machine learning teams, design and build power-user features to add to our premium offerings
- Designing and building RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between different software components, services, or applications
- Analyzing and improving the performance of software applications by optimizing code, database queries, and overall system architecture
- Leading the development of user interfaces and user experiences for applications to enhance usability, accessibility, and user engagement
Example Projects:
What you bring to the table:
- 5+ years of experience building rich, interactive web applications
- Knowledge of service-oriented architecture and microservices
- Experience working on large-scale consumer websites, with attention to scalability and performance concerns
- Experience working with modern front-end JavaScript libraries and tooling — for example, we use NextJS, React, Redux, Flow, webpack, and Prettier
- Experience working with server-side code - we use Hack, Node.js, and Python and relational databases
- Experience leading projects from inception to completion
- Excitement about the impact your work could have on the lives of students and teachers every day
- Ability to mentor junior engineers
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- An aptitude for experimentation demonstrated by being hypothesis-driven, metrics focused, and eager to test and iterate
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 $125,000 - $185,000, 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 (and we expect you to take them!)
- Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, HMO, 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, Wellness benefits
- 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice
