Staff Software Engineer, Community

About Engineering:

Quizlet's Product Engineering organization builds the core experiences that help millions of students and teachers achieve their learning goals.  We collaborate across teams to achieve user-centric outcomes, focusing on developing intuitive interfaces, engaging learning tools, and robust, scalable systems.

You’ll be joining a passionate group of engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges. Our teams operate with autonomy, embrace experimentation, and are deeply committed to user-centric design. We value transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration at all levels.

Our (non-exhaustive) Tech Stack:

• Languages: Go, PHP, Typescript

• Frameworks: React, Next.js

• Data: MySQL, Spanner, BigQuery

• Misc: GCP, Datadog, Growthbook, Rollbar, Pub/Sub, Redis/Valkey, Docker/Colima, Kubernetes

About the Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Community team, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of user-facing features that enable learners, educators, and creators to connect and contribute on Quizlet. Working across backend systems and web applications, you’ll build scalable platforms and experiences for creating, organizing, and interacting within communities. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Trust & Safety, Legal, Marketing, and cross-functional engineering teams to shape community experiences that are reliable, safe, and aligned with learning outcomes.

This role requires strong technical leadership, including driving architectural decisions, improving engineering practices, navigating ambiguous problem spaces, and coordinating execution across complex initiatives. You’ll also help elevate the broader team through technical mentorship, design reviews, and a high bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.

We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position in our Denver office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.

In this role, you will:

Drive technical design, implementation, and delivery for complex projects that span systems, features, or teams

Navigate evolving product spaces, define requirements and success metrics, and create clarity across engineering and cross-functional partners

Build and improve scalable, reliable, maintainable, and observable systems that support critical user experiences

Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and engineering teams to deliver impactful features that improve learner and business outcomes

Influence architectural decisions, identify high-leverage opportunities, and help shape long-term engineering investments

Support growth of peers through technical guidance, design reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing

Break down large initiatives, coordinate execution across project teams, and proactively mitigate technical risks

Establish and reinforce best practices across testing, observability, reliability, deployment, and developer workflows

What you bring to the table:

• 7+ years of engineering experience building and scaling consumer-facing products, distributed systems, or platform capabilities


• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from concept through delivery, often coordinating execution across engineers, systems, or teams


• Strong experience with backend or full-stack technologies, with the ability to contribute to architectural and implementation decisions across the stack


• Deep technical design expertise with a focus on scalability, maintainability, reliability, and long-term system health


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders


• Experience aligning engineering execution with product goals and business outcomes through thoughtful prioritization, tradeoff analysis, and delivery planning


• A track record of improving systems, engineering practices, or developer workflows to increase reliability, efficiency, scalability, and team effectiveness


• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team quality through technical leadership, feedback, and strong engineering practices

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience building and scaling education-focused or consumer-facing applications


• Full-stack experience across backend systems and web applications


• Experience with community-driven or multi-user experiences, or systems that drive user motivation and engagement


• Experience working in environments with high data or performance requirements


• Experience improving developer experience, internal tooling, or engineering productivity across teams


• Hands-on involvement in incident management, operational excellence, or reliability engineering practices

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:

Quizlet is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Salary transparency helps to mitigate unfair hiring practices when it comes to discrimination and pay gaps.  Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $190,000 - $245,000 depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options

Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance

20 vacation days that we expect you to take!

Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, Dental, VSP Choice)

Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match

Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth

Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits

40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice