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Job posting date: 22nd Oct 2025

Job posting deadline: 5th Nov 2025

Senior Software Engineer Platform Services

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia India Ireland Türkiye and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco Denver Ankara Dublin and Melbourne. This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in the office at the nearest hub. Learn more about us on our company page.

About Your Skills:

• Systems Thinking: You can zoom out to see how services libraries and tools fit into a larger ecosystem of 200 microservices and microfrontends. You spot patterns anticipate bottlenecks and design solutions that scale across teams.

• Collaboration: You thrive in code reviews and design discussions balancing strong opinions with openness to feedback. You know how to influence without blocking and build trust across engineering groups.

• Adaptability: You are comfortable diving into existing codebases and quickly getting up to speed. You balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability and you pivot smoothly when new priorities emerge.

• Technical Craftsmanship: You care about quality and reliability not just getting code out the door. You write clear testable maintainable code and help set standards that elevate the whole organization.

• Innovation: You dont just accept the current state of tooling and processesyou explore new frameworks experiment with prototypes and introduce practices that make building and deploying software more efficient.

About This Role:

The Platform Services team builds software and systems to support the ongoing development/maintenance of 200 microservices and microfrontends being built and updated across the organization. Working on the team you will build libraries work on CI/CD patterns testing frameworks build quality standards and more. The team also regularly prototypes and rolls out new tooling all in the name of finding the most efficient systems to automate allowing feature teams to build new functionality with increasing efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop test and release libraries components and tools for creating and maintaining best in class services and frontends at Udemy.

• Identify and evaluate new technologies that improve performance maintainability and robustness of our backend software.

• Plan organize and complete work within agile sprints. Communicate effectively on progress towards meeting expectations.

• Contribute in code reviews design discussions and develop features and solutions that scale.

• Use best software development practices and adopt patterns of the team and organization to develop consistent and maintainable code

• Contribute to a team culture that values openness inclusiveness quality robustness and scalability while fostering innovation.

Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer.

• Ability to learn and work with existing code bases.

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices is a MUST

• Knowledge of Object Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures algorithms).Web application development using modern frameworks.

• 4 years of experience with Java Kotlin or other strongly typed language

• Basic understanding of persistent scaled datastores (SQL NoSQL)

• Experience building backend services called by frontend interfaces

• Experience with Testing methods including unit and integration tests.

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker lxc etc.).

• Experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes Marathon Nomad etc.).

• Experience working with cloud computing services providers (AWS Google cloud platform Azure etc.).

Preferred but not required:

• Experience with Microservice development and communications using gRPC.

• Experience with frontend frameworks such as NextJS

• Experience working with Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis RabbitMQ Celery Kafka etc.

• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog HoneyComb etc)

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.

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