Staff Software Development Engineer

Summary

Join QuillBot, an AI-powered writing platform, as a highly experienced architect to lead the design and development of our next-generation writing tools. You will own the application architecture, ensuring scalability and resilience. Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize solutions, conduct POCs for new technologies, and benchmark different options. Contribute to the product roadmap, establish best practices, and deliver high-quality projects on time. This role offers a competitive salary based on experience and location (Netherlands or Germany), plus potential bonuses, equity, and benefits. QuillBot is a virtual-first company with employees globally.

Requirements

• 8+ years of strong hands-on development experience on web technologies
• 3+ years of solid experience in designing architecture
• Strong expertise in Frontend Technologies such as - TypeScript, DOM rendering including manipulation and parsing, UI Libraries and Frameworks like Vanilla JS
• Has good exposure working with high-scale production applications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their applications
• Strong affinity for producing highly optimum, performant, and production-quality code
• A technologist at heart and passionate about the latest technological developments

Responsibilities

• Own the overall application architecture and ensure high scalability and resilience
• Work with Engineering teams to ensure optimum solution design for each of the new features/modules developed
• Work on POCs for new experiments / technological inclusions, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement Architectural improvements
• Work on bench-marking different technology options with underlying use cases to make the right architectural decisions
• Understand and contribute to the product roadmap
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption
• Work on and be able to set well-scoped milestones of projects and get them delivered on-time with minimal errors and high-quality without any guidance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with cross-browser Web extensions
• Experience working in the AI/ML domain
• Good hold on Cloud Architecture, deployment, and optimisation (GCP/AWS)
• Good hold on database technologies (Mongo, Elastic, etc. )

Benefits

• Bonus program
• Equity award
• Benefits
• Other types of compensation
• Netherlands Pay Range €85.000 — €115.000 EUR
• Germany Pay Range €93.000 — €125.000 EUR