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Quizlet is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Community. The engineer will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, user-facing features to support learners, educators, and creators in connecting through community platforms. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build reliable and safe community experiences aligned with educational goals while driving technical leadership and mentorship.

Highlights

Lead design, implementation, and delivery of complex technical projects spanning backend systems and web applications.
Develop scalable, reliable, maintainable, and observable community-focused platforms and user experiences.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Trust & Safety, Legal, Marketing, and engineering teams to shape community features.
Drive architectural decisions and improve engineering practices with a focus on system health and operational excellence.
Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and promote best practices in testing, deployment, and developer workflows.
7+ years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing or distributed systems; strong full-stack or backend expertise.
Experience aligning engineering execution with business goals through prioritization and delivery planning.
Proficiency with technologies including Go, PHP, Typescript, React, Next.js, MySQL, GCP, Kubernetes, and related tools.
Competitive compensation with base salary ranging from $190,000 to $245,000 plus stock options and comprehensive benefits.
Focus on educational technology, community-driven features, and improving developer productivity and incident management.

Staff Software Engineer, Community Full Description

About Quizlet:

At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Weâre a $1B+ learning platform used by two-thirds of U.S. high school students and half of college students, powering over 1 billion learning interactions each week.

We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. Weâre energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.

Letâs Build the Future of Learning

Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.

About Engineering:

Quizlet's 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.

You’ll 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, Next.js
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, you’ll 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. You’ll also help elevate the broader team through technical mentorship, design reviews, and a high bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.

We’re 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 $190,000 - $245,000 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 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

Why Join Quizlet?

ð Massive reach: 60M+ users, 1B+ interactions per week

ð§ Cutting-edge tech: Generative AI, adaptive learning, cognitive science

ð Strong momentum: Top-tier investors, sustainable business, real traction

ð¯ Mission-first: Work that makes a difference in peopleâs lives

ð¤ Inclusive culture: Committed to equity, diversity, and belonging

We strive to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome!

We work to create a holistic interview process, where both Quizlet and candidates have an opportunity to view what it would be like to work together, in exploring a mutually beneficial partnership.

We provide a transparent setting that gives a comprehensive view of who we are!

In Closing:

At Quizlet, weâre excited about passionate people joining our teamâeven if you donât check every box on the requirements list. We value unique perspectives and believe everyone has something meaningful to contribute. Our culture is all about taking initiative, learning through challenges, and striving for high-quality work while staying curious and open to new ideas. We believe in honest, respectful communication, thoughtful collaboration, and creating a supportive space where everyone can grow and succeed together.â

Quizletâs success as an online learning community depends on a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

As an equal opportunity employer and a tech company committed to societal change, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join us!

To All Recruiters and Placement Agencies:

At this time, Quizlet does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and/or profiles.

Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website or to any Quizlet employee. Quizlet will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm nor will it be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. All unsolicited resumes received will be considered the property of Quizlet.

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