Senior Software Engineer - Developer Tools, Poe; Remote

[ Quora is a privately held,  remote-first  company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit  for details regarding employment eligibility by country.]

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-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Grok 4.1, Veo 3.1, Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), 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.

Our small engineering team works on challenging problems every day. We have a culture that's rooted in constantly learning and improving, and our engineers are encouraged to think big and experiment with new ideas. With continuous deployment, we ship changes quickly and iterate fast. Our engineers focus on creating polished products and writing high‑quality code by designing APIs and abstractions that are extensible and maintainable.

We value development velocity and invest heavily in tools and frameworks that help a lean team to move faster and achieve more. Everyone on the engineering team has a significant impact on our product and company.

The Platform team focuses on increasing the productivity of product developers (including engineers, designers, and data scientists) by building tools, frameworks, and abstractions that make their work easier. This team’s projects range from building reusable component libraries to enhancing debugging tools that improve the development lifecycle. There are many impactful challenges in advancing our frameworks and systems across our modern architecture, supporting both our AI product, Poe, and the core Quora platform.

In this role, you’ll be working with other members of the team across a variety of projects to improve efficiency of product developers, with a focus on supporting the Poe product. You'll work closely with Poe product teams to understand pain points and build tools to increase their velocity. You'll be working mainly with Python and modern JavaScript frameworks like React, NextJS, Graph

QL and Relay. This role is great for full‑stack generalists who enjoy empowering other developers, eager to learn and execute in different parts of the stack.

• Develop, maintain, and build tools that make Poe and Quora product developers (engineers, designers, data scientists) more efficient.
• Contribute to building and maintaining reusable components used by developers.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to identify pain points and understand developer workflow challenges.
• Drive proposals and initiatives to address developer challenges and adopt new frameworks.

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's  coordination hours  (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time).
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or a completion of coding bootcamp or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of experience working with large scale codebases and systems, particularly web applications and frontend architecture.
• 4+ years of experience building APIs that are used by large teams.
• 2+ years of experience working with React and Graph
  
  QL.

• Experience and strong interest in building tools to support other developers, or client‑side performance. This may include contributions to open source projects.
• Experience with…