Software Engineer – Ads (Remote)

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.

 

About The Team And Role

In just over six years since we first launched our advertising platform, we’ve already grown to support thousands of advertisers who are reaching over 400 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, and 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.

 

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 a massive scale with data-driven iteration
• Identify high-impact features that achieve engineering and revenue goals, and be able to explain the rationale for your decisions
• Work with designers, fellow engineers, and data scientists to prototype and implement functionality and analyze impact

 

Minimum Requirements

 

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora’s “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 4+ years of full-time product development experience building consumer or enterprise web products (internships excluded)
• Excellent Python, Java, or C++ development skills
• 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

 

Preferred Requirements

 

• 2+ years of industry experience in online advertising, or related areas in monetization & marketing
• 1+ years of experience building with open-source data infrastructure technologies, such as Kafka, Airflow, and Spark
• 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies, such as React, Javascript, Typescript
• Love of the Quora products