Software Development Engineer

About QuillBot:

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing platform on a mission to reimagine writing. QuillBot provides over 58 million monthly active students, professionals, and educators with free online writing and research tools to help them become more effective, productive, and confident. The QuillBot team was built on the idea that learning how to write and use that knowledge is empowering. They want to automate the more time-consuming parts of writing so that users can focus on their craft. Whether you’re writing essays, social media posts, or emails, QuillBot has your back. It has an array of productivity-enhancing tools that are already changing the way the world writes.

Job Responsibilities

• Own the overall application architecture and ensure high scalability and resilience.
• Work with Engineering teams to ensure optimum solution design for each of the new features and modules developed.
• Work on POCs for new experiments/technological inclusions and collaborate with engineering teams to implement architectural improvements.
• Work on benchmarking different technology options with underlying use cases to make the right architectural decisions.
• Understand and contribute to the product roadmap.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Work on and be able to set well-scoped milestones of projects and get them delivered on time with minimal errors and high quality without any guidance.
• Be part of a central team; understand tech requirements and solve them at the organizational level. Can coordinate and work with cross-team functions.
• Architectural understanding. Lead projects and execute them with junior engineers. Help, lead, and unblock cross-functional requirements.

Ideal Candidate

• 6+ years of strong hands-on development experience on web technologies.
• 3+ years of solid experience in designing architecture.
• Strong expertise in Frontend Technologies such as – TypeScript, DOM rendering, including manipulation and parsing, UI Libraries and Frameworks.
• Very good understanding of React.
• Experience leading projects with 2–3 engineers.
• Understanding the micro-frontend and module bundlers is a plus.
• Exposure working with high-scale production applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their applications.
• Strong affinity for producing highly optimum, performant, and production-quality code.
• A technologist at heart and passionate about the latest technological developments.
• Interest in exploring domain of AI/ML is a plus.
• Good hold on Cloud Architecture, deployment, and optimisation (GCP/AWS) is a plus.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary, RSUs & annual bonus
• Medical coverage
• Life and accidental insurance
• Vacation & leaves of absence (menstrual, flexible, special, and more!)
• Developmental opportunities through education & developmental reimbursements & professional workshops
• Maternity & parental leave
• Hybrid & remote model with flexible working hours
• On-site & remote company events throughout the year
• Tech & WFH stipends & new hire allowances
• Employee referral program
• Premium access to QuillBot