Staff Software Engineer

Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning.

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. Its personalized practical and focused on real-world impact.

Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use whether theyre picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If youre excited by change energized by learning and ready to have a real impact youll feel right at home.

Learn more about us on our company page.

Where we Work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin and international hubs in Australia India Ireland Mexico and Trkiye. This is an in-office position requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday Wednesday Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills

• Technical Leadership: You bring deep technical expertise and a strong architectural mindset. You consistently make high-quality technical decisions mentor others and set the standard for code quality performance and accessibility.

• Systems Thinking: You understand how features and services connect across the platform. You deconstruct complex ambiguous problems into clear scalable solutions and anticipate downstream effects across teams and systems.

• Execution at Scale: You lead the design and delivery of large multi-team initiatives. You guide others through prioritization scoping and trade-off discussions to ship high-quality experiences efficiently.

• Collaboration: You are a trusted partner to engineers product managers designers and data scientists. You facilitate alignment across stakeholders and bring clarity to complex problems through strong written and verbal communication.

• Ownership: You take responsibility for driving work forward and raising the bar. You proactively identify issues and opportunities own solutions end-to-end and hold a high bar for yourself and others.

• Continuous Learning: You model a growth mindset. You stay up-to-date on evolving frontend best practices and tooling actively seek feedback and share your learnings to help your team and peers grow.

About you

You are a motivated meticulous Staff Software Engineer with a customer-focused team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills who aligns with our core values. You are organized proactive and take the initiative to prioritize yours and the teams projects effectively.

Fostering a workplace culture of individual humility and collectively proud we look for team players. We value every voice and encourage mutual recognition of accomplishments. Your role involves the continuous celebration of both small and large milestones and deliveries with our global team.

About this role

Udemy is searching for a Staff Software Engineer who embodies our values of lead the way embody ownership act as one team relentless focus and never stop learning. We expect you to have expertise in ReactJS Typescript GraphQL CSS MobX (or similar libraries) NextJS (or similar framework) Webpack NPM DataDog (or similar tools) accessibility best practices and measuring web performance . We expect proficiency in analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable designing and leading very complex problems including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters across teams.

As an organization we never stop learning. This manifests in our habitual learning approach constructive debates and leveraging our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.

Within the Learn portfolio our mission is to help learners advance their professional skills so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a staff engineer within the portfolio you will be leading a team to help our learners onboard onto our platform identify their learning goals find the right learning content for them and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations skills guidance and GenAI to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.

What youll be doing

• Implementing product features using your expert skills in ReactJS Typescript GraphQL CSS MobX (or similar libraries) NextJS (or similar framework) Webpack NPM DataDog (or similar tools) accessibility best practices and measuring web performance to meet our teams objectives in service of our users.

• Applying exceptional analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features in your team and with other teams in service of our users.

• Leading the optimization of code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.

• Designing leading coordinating executing and delivering very complex projects with quality and at scale across your pod and others.

• Identifying managing and executing solutions for complexity across teams.

• Creating and leveraging dashboards to ensure quality of our experiences our experiences are solving business problems and our experiences are meeting our users needs.

What youll have

• A desire to always be learning.

• Technical expertise in ReactJS Typescript GraphQL CSS MobX (or similar libraries) NextJS (or similar framework) Webpack NPM DataDog (or similar tools) accessibility best practices and measuring web performance

• Exceptional skills in analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking.

• Ability to break very complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.

• Ability to work independently across domains and lead execution of a team on complex features across pods.

• Ability to design solutions for very complex problems and lead your team to deliver those solutions while working with other teams effectively.

Why work here

Youll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. Youll get full access to Udemy courses a monthly UDay to invest in yourself and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. Youll have the space and tools to experiment apply and get better at using AI in practical ways.

Youll own your work.
We trust people to lead make decisions and follow through. You dont need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

Youll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

Youll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills change their careers or find a path forward. Youve got the experience why not use it to help others gain theirs

Bring your curiosity. Well bring the platform and the support. Lets LEARNtogether.

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits India Benefits Ireland Benefits Mexico BenefitsTurkiye Benefits & US Benefitspages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.