Senior Software Engineer - Quora, Ads

[ Quora is a privately held 'remote-first' company . This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers.quora.com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

About Quora:

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.

About the Team and Role:

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.

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

Minimum 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

Preferred Requirements:

• 1+ years of frontend experience with frontend technologies such as React Javascript Typescript

• Love of the Quora products

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. This role is a backfill for an existing vacancy.

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 $179004 - $312588 USD + equity + benefits.

• Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants the salary range is $234753 - $327951 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada the salary range is $219103 - $306088 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.

Please note: AI technology may assist in sorting applications and recording interview notes but all decisions are made by a member of our team.

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