Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Quora's Creators team as a Staff Backend Engineer and help shape the future of Poe, their rapidly growing AI product. You will work at the forefront of the AI ecosystem, empowering bot creators and developers by building abstractions and tooling to accelerate bot onboarding. Collaborate with leading LLM providers to integrate their latest advancements and improve the external API to support a thriving developer ecosystem. This high-impact role offers direct visibility into how creators build and scale on Poe. As a staff engineer, you will drive feature planning and backend implementation, contributing to a fast-paced, cross-functional product cycle. Quora is a remote-first company, and this position can be performed remotely from multiple countries.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Equity refreshers
• Remote work reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance programs