Senior Software Engineer - Quora, Ads (Remote)

Quora

12d•Remote

About The Position

Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms: Quora: a global knowledge sharing platform with over 300M 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-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, Veo 3.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), 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 Quora product. Since we first launched our advertising platform, we've already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 300 million monthly unique visitors on Quora. Today, we're working on a broad range of areas to support our data-intensive needs: metrics and insights reporting, audience targeting, low-latency real-time ad delivery, and a suite of advertiser tools to create and optimize campaigns, to name just a few. As an engineer on the Ads product team, you'll work on efforts focused on generating revenue for the success of the company and mission. As part of a highly cross-functional development team, you'll work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, build data-intensive applications and systems to enable advertisers to reach a well-targeted audience, and ensure that our users experience ads comparable to the quality of the content they appear alongside.

Requirements

Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
5+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
2+ years of industry experience in online advertising or related area
Excellent proficiency with Python or similar programming language
Knowledge of backend storage systems such as MySQL, HBase, Memcached, or Redis
Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React, Javascript, Typescript
Experience with large-scale distributed systems

Nice To Haves

1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
Love of the Quora products

Responsibilities

Drive projects from ideation to production using the full technology stack
Architect, design, and implement features for our mission-critical online ad platform at massive scale with data-driven iteration
Identify high impact features that achieve engineering and revenue goals, and be able to explain rationale for your decisions
Work with designers, fellow engineers, and data scientists to prototype and implement functionality and analyze impact