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Senior Software Developer, BE

Coursera


Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Yearly Salary: CAD 164000 - 205000
Posted: 2 October 2026 (12 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 30 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Coursera Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the worlds most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together we help more than 300 million learners and 12000 enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting ourblog.

Why join us now

AI is transforming how people learn work and grow and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need when they need them.

Shape what comes next

By joining our team youll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skillsand help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas expertise and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.

About this Role:

As a Staff Software Developer on the Monetization team youll lead technical initiatives and take significant ownership over service architecture product API development and data modeling. Youll design and iterate at startup speed working with modern Java MySQL DynamoDB gRPC GraphQL Kafka and microservices this role youll balance hands-on development with technical leadership collaborating across product and engineering to shape both technical decisions and business outcomes.

About your skills:

Software Engineering

Core competency for designing developing and maintaining backend systems at scale.

Technical Design

Essential for architecting scalable microservices and data modeling solutions.

Agile Product Development

Essential for fast-moving team environment with frequent deployments and iterative development cycles.

What youll be doing:
  • Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures that support Courseras backend services

  • Measure your work thoroughly analyze results and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing

  • Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to understand real-time health and performance of your products

  • Participate in product discussions by proposing technical approaches and influencing roadmap decisions through data and system insights

  • Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to shape requirements clarify tradeoffs and translate business goals into technical designs

  • Drive data-informed decisions by analyzing metrics and experiment results to validate product hypotheses

Qualifications:
  • 7 years of experience working in a software engineering role

  • Experience designing highly-scalable and performant microservices and storage layers using languages and infrastructure such as Java Play Scala MySQL Cassandra Solr or Kafka

  • Experience working in fast-moving team environments with frequent deployments

  • Background in using data and metrics to inform technical and product decisions

  • Demonstrated history of building and launching products with understanding of API design system architecture and data architecture

Keep Learning

If this opportunity interests you you might like these courses on Coursera:

Compensation / Location:

At Coursera we offer competitive zone-based pay aligned to your location experience and role level. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary with comprehensive health and wellness benefits bonus and RSU equity programs and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.

This role is only available for hire in Toronto Canada

Coursera offers competitive pay and fair compensation practices across all regions. Job titles may span multiple career levels and the targeted hiring base salary range for this role in Canada is CAD $164000 - $205000. Actual compensation will depend on factors such as experience education transferable skills business needs and location. This range may be adjusted over time and may include eligibility for variable pay equity and comprehensive benefits.

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