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Principal Software Architect
QuizletSan Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Feb 2024
💰 $287,000/yr($245,000/yr – $287,000/yr)
About the role
About Quizlet:
Inspired by our belief that anyone can learn anything and powered by our own curiosity, we build the smartest tools we can imagine to help students learn.
Quizlet is the popular, global learning platform and app that millions of students, teachers and everyday people use to study any subject imaginable for school, work or as part of their personal interests -- including two-thirds of high school students and half of all college students in the US. Combining cognitive science and machine learning, Quizlet guides students through adaptive study activities to confidently reach their learning goals. We’re on track to become the undisputed leader in user-generated learning content and engagement, at the scale of YouTube.
Valued at $1 billion, Quizlet has raised over $60 million in venture capital from investors including Icon Ventures, Union Square Ventures, General Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Owl Ventures, and Altos Ventures.
To serve our global community of learners, our teams tackle lofty technical challenges and design for use cases across cultures and languages. We work hard, act like owners, and collaborate every chance we get. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
About the Team:
Quizlet provides ML- and AI-driven learning tools focused on high school and college students worldwide. With over 60M monthly active users and hundreds of millions of Study Sets created, the scale of the platform and user interactions is significant. With a talented and diverse team of engineers, we are proud of our inclusive culture, deep customer focus, and technical excellence.
About the Role:
In this architecture leadership position, you join Quizlet’s engineering leadership team, reporting to the Head of Engineering. You’ll identify important architectural challenges and opportunities for Quizlet, prioritizing in alignment with company strategy, defining success measures, outcomes, and architectural options. You’ll influence, align, and lead technical teams as well as other stakeholders across the business to evolve architecture and design effective solutions. Your role will grow to lead a small team of architects. You’ll also guide technology selection and mentor engineers across the company.
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.
Inspired by our belief that anyone can learn anything and powered by our own curiosity, we build the smartest tools we can imagine to help students learn.
Quizlet is the popular, global learning platform and app that millions of students, teachers and everyday people use to study any subject imaginable for school, work or as part of their personal interests -- including two-thirds of high school students and half of all college students in the US. Combining cognitive science and machine learning, Quizlet guides students through adaptive study activities to confidently reach their learning goals. We’re on track to become the undisputed leader in user-generated learning content and engagement, at the scale of YouTube.
Valued at $1 billion, Quizlet has raised over $60 million in venture capital from investors including Icon Ventures, Union Square Ventures, General Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Owl Ventures, and Altos Ventures.
To serve our global community of learners, our teams tackle lofty technical challenges and design for use cases across cultures and languages. We work hard, act like owners, and collaborate every chance we get. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
About the Team:
Quizlet provides ML- and AI-driven learning tools focused on high school and college students worldwide. With over 60M monthly active users and hundreds of millions of Study Sets created, the scale of the platform and user interactions is significant. With a talented and diverse team of engineers, we are proud of our inclusive culture, deep customer focus, and technical excellence.
About the Role:
In this architecture leadership position, you join Quizlet’s engineering leadership team, reporting to the Head of Engineering. You’ll identify important architectural challenges and opportunities for Quizlet, prioritizing in alignment with company strategy, defining success measures, outcomes, and architectural options. You’ll influence, align, and lead technical teams as well as other stakeholders across the business to evolve architecture and design effective solutions. Your role will grow to lead a small team of architects. You’ll also guide technology selection and mentor engineers across the company.
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.
In this role, you will:
- Report to SVPE and contribute as a key member of the engineering leadership team
- Identify important architectural challenges and opportunities for Quizlet, prioritizing them in alignment with company and engineering strategy, defining success measures, outcomes, and requirements
- Listen to, influence, align, and lead technical teams to evolve architecture and design long-term sustainable solutions
- Lead a small team of architects and/or staff engineers on high-leverage areas, potentially with long-term ownership of some critical tools or frameworks
- Drive overall target architecture, aligning with leaders and stakeholders across the team
- Guide the evolution of our business continuity plan
- Champion strong fundamentals (reliability, resiliency, availability, cost efficiency, data privacy, security, compliance)
- Guide technology selection process
- Tie-break important technical decisions
- Champion effective design documentation culture & tech leadership forums
- Guide key microservices refactoring efforts
- Guide improvement of our behavioral data & experimentation architecture
What you bring to the table:
- 15+ years of software development experience
- 10+ years of experience with large-scale data-centric internet systems
- 6+ years of architecture leadership with significant scope of influence (multiple teams with 80+ engineers)
- Demonstrated success architecting consumer internet applications at scale
- Architectural options, alternatives, and tradeoffs
- Experience with monolithic and microservices architectures
- Experience with modern data architectures
- Extraordinary leadership through influence, vision, communication, and writing
- Demonstrated success mentoring talented engineers in structured and unstructured engagements
- Experience driving initiatives for reliability, scalability, availability, and performance
- Experience assessing talent, building teams, developing engineers
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 $245,000 - $287,000, depending on location and experie
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