Senior Software Engineer

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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.

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Job posting date: Nov 19th 2025

Application deadline: Dec 3rd 2025

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 Türkiye. 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

• Craftsmanship: You take pride in building performant scalable and maintainable backend and frontend services. You write clean code pay attention to detail and leverage modern frameworks to deliver high-quality service capabilities.
• Ownership: You lead by example taking initiative and accountability for your work. You independently scope execute and drive projects forward while proactively resolving blockers and raising the bar for your team.
• Execution: You break down moderately complex problems into milestones and deliverables. You optimize for impact focus on scalable solutions and help your team ship reliably and iteratively.
• Collaboration: You work closely with cross-functional peers to deliver service capabilities. You clearly communicate technical trade-offs and foster alignment across engineering product and other stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: You approach problems with analytical rigor and a systems mindset. You debug effectively identify root causes and contribute to solutions that improve both the product and team workflows.
• Learning Mindset: You embody Udemys spirit of continuous learning. You stay up to date on best practices seek feedback and help others grow through knowledge-sharing and mentoring.

About this role

Udemy is searching for a Senior Software Engineer who embodies our values of authenticity continuous learning experimentation being results-oriented and being individually humble yet collectively proud. We expect you to be comfortable with a combination of frontend and backend technologies. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing complex problems including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.

You will be joining our Trust & Identity team to build high-impact customer-facing authentication features that support millions of learners and instructors worldwide. Youll help protect our users from security risks and abuse while modernizing our login and signup experiences using the latest authentication standards. Youll also deepen your expertise by anticipating how bad actors might target our platform and implementing safeguards that keep our community safe.

As an organization we are always learning. This manifests in our habitual learning approach constructive debates and utilizing our own platform for continuous development. Your dedication to growth openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal to your success.

What youll be doing

• Writing code using your skills in Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka MySQL DynamoDB Redis/Elasticache GraphQL Kubernetes and user interfaces in ReactJS Typescript MobX or closely related technologies to meet your teams objectives.
• Deploying monitoring and maintaining a set of critical services in our infrastructure using Datadog and FireHydrant Signals.
• Building user experiences that adhere to a high level of accessibility standards.
• Applying analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features.
• Optimizing code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
• Leading coordinating executing and delivering projects at scale.
• Managing complexity within your team while concurrently interacting with teams in adjacent domains.
• Work closely with product design and other team partners to ensure our implementations meet business outcomes.
• Mentoring and teaching engineers junior to you.

What youll have

• Have a BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline; or equivalent alternative degree or work experience.
• 5 years of professional software development experience
• Technical competence in some of the following technologies or similar Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka SQL GraphQL Kubernetes.
• Practitioner in some of the following technologies or similar ReactJS Typescript frontend state management HTML CSS.
• Solid understanding of domain-driven design event-driven development and monolith decomposition patterns.
• Analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking skills.
• Ability to break moderately complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align wed love to hear from you!

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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

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