Copy of Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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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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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

• Continuous Learning A strong desire to keep learning and growing especially in technical competencies and organizational knowledge.

• Analytical Problem Solving The ability to break down moderately complex problems and find effective solutions using cross-functional communication and systems thinking.

• Proactiveness and Initiative Taking ownership of projects prioritizing work independently and leading moderately complex projects to completion.

• Team-Oriented Mindset Valuing collaboration mutual recognition of accomplishments and fostering a culture of humility and collective pride.

• Adaptability in Technology Comfort in using various technologies while maintaining services and optimizing code and processes.

About this role

Udemy is searching for a 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 moderately complex problems including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.
As an organization we arealways 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.

What youll be doing

• Implementing services 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 moderately complex projects at scale.

• Managing complexity within your team while concurrently interacting with teams in adjacent domains.

What youll have

• 2 years of professional software development experience

• Fluency in English language

• Technical competence in Kotlin/Java Spring Boot Kafka SQL GraphQL Kubernetes or closely related technologies.

• Practitioner in ReactJS Typescript frontend state management HTML CSS.

• Solid understanding of domain-driven design event-driven development monolith decomposition patterns.

• Working knowledge of analytical problem solving cross-functional communication and systems thinking.

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

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.

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