Senior Software Engineer

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Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s 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 they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll 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

• Craftsmanship: You take pride in building performant, scalable, and maintainable backend 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 Udemy’s 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 embody ownership, acting as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. We expect you to be proficient in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing moderately complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters. 

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. 

As part of the Learner team, you will be working on scaling the services that power our learning experiences. You will be directly responsible for building service capabilities that help learners identify and build new skills.  

What you'll be doing

•  Implementing product features using your proficient skills in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform to meet our team's objectives. 

• Building services that adhere to a high level of scalability and quality.

• Applying analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features.

• Lead the optimization of code, performance, and processes to help your team achieve their goals.

• Leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering moderately complex projects at scale and quality.

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

What you’ll have

•  Demonstrated that you never stop learning

• Technical competence in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes Terraform

• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and leveraging design systems.

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

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

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At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.

Why work here?

You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll 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. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

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

You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together. 

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 Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages 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. 

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We understand that not everyone will match each of the 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, we'd love to hear from you! 

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