Principal Software Development Engineer (Remote)

About:

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing platform on a mission to reimagine writing. QuillBot provides over 50 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. In the most recent series of events, CourseHero, a 15-year-old Ed-Tech unicorn based in California that is now known as Learneo, also acquired us.

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 / modules developed.
• Work on POCs for new experiments / technological inclusions, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement architectural improvements.
• Work on bench-marking 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 for projects and get them delivered on time with minimal errors and high quality without any guidance.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of strong hands-on development experience in 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 like ReactJS
• Strong expertise in Cloud Architecture, deployment, and Optimisation (GCP/AWS).
• Strong hold on database technologies (Mongo, Elastic, etc. ).
• Has good 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.
• Experience working with cross-browser Web Extensions is a great plus.
• Experience working in the AI/ML domain is a plus.