Senior Software Engineer

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Job posting date: Jan 22nd 2025

Job posting deadline: February 5th 2025

About your skills

• Analytical Problem-Solving: You excel at analyzing complex challenges and devising purposeful solutions that create a global impact.
• Innovation Leadership: You are driven to lead the way in innovation exploring cutting-edge technologies and discovering new solutions to pressing problems.
• Collaboration: You thrive in a collaborative environment working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
• Learning and Growth: You are eager to learn from and work alongside top talent continuously improving your skills and contributing to a culture of excellence.

About this role

The Globalization team at Udemy is on a mission to make learning accessible to everyone everywhere.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team you will play a pivotal role in architecting and building the systems that allow Udemy to scale globally. You will tackle complex technical challengesfrom optimizing payment flows for specific regions to re-imagining content discovery for different cultures. You will serve as a technical anchor for the team driving best practices influencing architectural decisions and ensuring our systems are robust scalable and ready for millions of global users.

What youll be doing

• Lead Technical Design: Drive the design and implementation of complex high-scale features and services. You will take vague requirements and turn them into concrete scalable technical architectures.

• Build & Deploy: Contribute to the design development and deployment of backend and full-stack features using technologies like Kotlin Spring Boot Python Django React Kafka Redis and MySQL.

• Mentorship: Act as a mentor to junior and mid-level engineers providing technical guidance conducting thorough code reviews and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

• Drive Quality: Champion best practices in testing observability and documentation. You will ensure our services are production-ready and easy to maintain.

• Collaborate: Partner deeply with Product Managers and Designers to shape the product roadmap. You will provide technical feasibility assessments and propose innovative solutions to business problems.

• Solve Hard Problems: Troubleshoot complex production issues identify bottlenecks in our distributed systems and implement long-term fixes.

What youll have

• Education: B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• Experience: 5 years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record of delivering complex applications in a distributed environment.

• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in at least one object-oriented language (e.g. Java Kotlin Python).

• Web & API Development: Experience working on web applications or APIs with a strong understanding of HTTP REST and modern backend patterns.

• Infrastructure & Data: Exposure to databases (SQL or NoSQL) caching systems (e.g. Redis) and cloud environments (e.g. AWS).

• System Design: Strong understanding of distributed system architecture design patterns data modeling and scalability principles and experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka.

• Frontend experience with modern frontend frameworks like and along with an understanding of SSR and frontend performance.

• Communication: Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to drive technical consensus and explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spring Boot and GraphQL.

• Experience with gRPC/Protobuf.

• Background in Internationalization (i18n) or building global-ready products.

• Exposure to microservice architecture and containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes.

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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