[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 Poe product.

About the Team and Role:

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to contribute to Poe, our rapidly growing AI product. On the Creators team, you’ll have the thrilling opportunity to build cutting-edge features from the ground up as part of a team focused on enhancing our Developer API and enabling third-party developers. Example projects include adding feature support to our external developer APIs and support the expansion of our developer ecosystem. You’ll play a key role in shaping how developers deploy bots on the platform and consume our APIs, ensuring new functionality is intuitive, impactful, and delivers a seamless end-to-end experience.

🚀🤖✨ Check out these blog posts from the Creators team! 🚀🤖✨

• External application API: https://poe.com/blog/introducing-the-poe-api

• Amazing bots the team launched in collaboration with our LLM partners: https://poe.com/blog/report-summer-2025-ai-model-usage-trends

In this role, you'll help plan and implement new product features, contribute across the stack, and take shared ownership of the cross-functional development cycle. We're looking for strong technical collaborators who are excited about AI, energized by fast-paced environments, and eager to learn and experiment with emerging technologies. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with cross-functional teams (design, product, data science, QA, and engineering) to advise on product roadmap and create innovative features and developer experiences with our APIs

• Rapidly prototype and implement new product features from ideation to production, using modern web technologies and best practices for performance and reliability

• Collaborate closely with early access developers to deliver scalable and efficient API features

• Be a champion for both developer experience and for sustainable, scalable code practices

• Participate in on-call responsibilities to ensure Poe provides a reliable and high quality product

Minimum Requirements:

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)

• 5+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems

• 3+ years experience in Python, Java, C++ or similar programming language

• A passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Requirements:

• 2+ years experience in designing APIs or building UI products for external developers

• Passion for Poe and Quora's products and mission

• Passion for code quality and designing elegant systems

• Stay updated on the latest API trends, technologies, and best practices

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.

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 $155,656 - $225,160 USD + equity + benefits.

• Canada candidates only: For Toronto and Vancouver based applicants, the salary range is $202,383 - $278,361 CAD + equity + benefits. For all other locations in Canada, the salary range is $188,891 - $259,803 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.

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