Quora
Staff Backend Engineer - Bot Creator Ecosystem, Poe (Remote)
Job Summary
The role involves working as a Staff Backend Engineer on the Poe product, focusing on building abstractions, tooling, and API improvements to support bot creators and developers. The candidate should have extensive experience with large-scale systems, Python, and web applications, and possess strong leadership and communication skills. Responsibilities include driving projects from ideation to production, providing technical guidance, and collaborating across cross-functional teams. The position offers a remote-first environment with comprehensive benefits and opportunities to work on innovative AI platform features.
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[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company.This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visitcareers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]
About Quora:
Quora’s mission is to grow and share the world’s knowledge. 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.
Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.
This role will be working on our Poe product.
About the Team and Role:
We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to join the Creators team to help shape the future of Poe, our rapidly growing AI product. In this role, you'll work at the forefront of the AI ecosystem to empower bot creators and developers. You’ll build abstractions and tooling to accelerate bot onboarding, collaborate directly with leading LLM providers to integrate their latest advancements, and improve our external API to support a thriving developer ecosystem. This is a high-impact role with direct visibility into how creators build and scale on Poe.
🚀🤖✨ Check out some of the amazing bots our Creators team has recently launched, in collaboration with our cutting-edge LLM partners! 🚀🤖✨
As a staff engineer, you’ll drive feature planning and backend implementation, while contributing to a fast-paced, cross-functional product cycle. If you’re passionate about AI, excited by emerging technologies, and eager to work on a platform with global reach, we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
Drive projects from ideation to production by working closely with cross-functional teams (design, product, data science, QA, and engineering) and advise on product roadmap
Be a champion for both user experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the company
Work with the engineering management team to develop new initiatives and improve existing processes
Participate in on-call responsibilities to ensure Poe provides a reliable and high quality product
Minimum Requirements:
Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
6+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications
3+ years experience in Python or similar programming language
Ability to reason about big-picture goals, and identify opportunities to derisk projects to maximize ROI
Experience leading project teams in a consumer internet or technology company
A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Requirements:
Passion for Poe and Quora's products and mission
Passionate about API design, the developer ecosystem and overall developer experience
Passion for code quality and designing elegant systems
At Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture.
Additional Information:
We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.
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. For more information on benefits, visit this link:https://www.careers.quora.com/benefits
There are many factors that will determine the starting pay, including but not limited to experience, location, education, and business needs.
US candidates only: For US based applicants, the salary range is $183,647 - $267,615 USD + equity + benefits.
Canada candidates only: For Canada based applicants, the salary range is $222,703 - $278,168 CAD + equity + benefits.
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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