Principal Software Engineer, Consumer

About Quizlet:

At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month, including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly.

We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.

Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.

The Consumer Experiences team at Quizlet delivers delightful study experiences to our learners wherever and however they want to study.

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to advance our ability to build scalable systems, experiences, and APIs. You will provide technical leadership across our Consumer Experience team. You’ll drive architectural approaches and decisions and design rigor across our engineering teams.

In this role, you will influence our tech choices and drive an engineering culture of high ownership with a special focus on quality and observability. You’ll work with your fellow leaders in engineering to help uplevel our engineering culture across Quizlet and help build our new London-based engineering culture from the ground up.

We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office at a minimum of three days a 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.

• Report to the VP of Engineering and contribute as a key member of the leadership team
• Serve as a subject matter expert and drive best practices across the organization with respect to software architecture
• Influence the overall target architecture of our product, aligning with engineers, leadership, and stakeholders at all levels
• Mentor teams in the design and implementation of complex systems, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient systems that meet business goals and customer needs
• Drive strategic technology decisions working with engineering leaders, and stakeholders across the organization
• Lead code reviews, architectural discussions, and troubleshooting sessions to ensure the highest standards of development
• Proactively anticipate and identify potential challenges, risks, and scaling issues in the quarters and years ahead while avoiding over engineered systems

• 10+ years of software development experience with expertise in frontend systems
• Demonstrated ability in system architecture and design, understanding of design patterns, and ability to solve complex technical design challenges, with attention to scalability and performance concerns
• Experience designing and implementing high performance APIs
• The desire to work across team boundaries to understand the needs of our product development teams, and partner with infrastructure teams
• Strong problem solving skills, and attention to the little details needed to make informed decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Track record of planning and executing technical initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and complex requirements, applying strategic prioritization
• Excitement about the impact your work could have on the lives of students and teachers every day

• Professional experience at all levels of the tech stack (web, mobile, and backend)
• Experience leading organizations through complex migrations and refactors
• Prior management experience with teams of 20+

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