Senior Software Developer, Coursera
Fullstack
CA$137.6-172k
Online learning platform
Job no longer available
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$137.6-172k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building web applications
- Solid experience across both frontend and backend (for example: React/TypeScript on the frontend and Java or similar on the backend)
- Has designed, built, and owned end‑to‑end features or systems in production
- Deep understanding of API design (REST and/or GraphQL), service-to-service communication, and microservice architectures
- Familiar with modern engineering practices such as code review, testing, and CI/CD, and working in a cloud environment
Desirable
- Familiar with prompt engineering, context engineering, model APIs, embeddings, tokenization, guardrails, and quality evaluation
- Loves innovating and is curious about AI-assisted development
- Balances long-term design thinking with quick execution on urgent goals
- Communicates clearly and enjoys working closely with Product, Design, and other partners on shaping the work
- Passionate about performance, accessibility, and visual details
What the job involves
- The Coach team is leading Coursera’s AI initiatives by developing a GenAI platform that enables rapid creation, deployment, and management of LLM-powered features across the organization
- In the coming quarters we’re looking to introduce exciting new capabilities on the platform, including a multi-agent workflow builder, improving and expanding our RAG pipeline, adding new modalities such as audio, image, video generation, and building out a UI component library that can present a unified AI experience on multiple surfaces
- As a fullstack engineer, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape and build both backend systems and frontend experiences, to deliver meaningful impact
- Design and implement scalable & robust frontend and backend applications, bringing a clean, consistent, and high-quality look and feel to every step of the learner journey
- Integrate with leading model providers (OpenAI, Gemini, etc.) and evaluate trade-offs between models
- Design and implement data pipelines that feed LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval systems
- Use and explore AI-powered coding and design tools to accelerate delivery and creativity
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
- Upgrade critical and legacy UI components, improving accessibility, performance, and visual polish
- Collaborate closely with design, business, and product stakeholders to find the best solutions and adapt to changes
- Share knowledge and guide other teams in using the design system and visual standards on the frontend, and in using the platform to power LLM based features on the backend
Our take
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. It partners with universities and other educational institutions to deliver online courses to 40 million students, covering subjects like technology, business, science, and even autonomous cars.
Coursera sees itself as helping people get ready for the next wave of technological advancement. It is preparing individuals, companies, and governments to meet that challenge head-on and turn this disruption into opportunity. To help achieve this, it also has specific product offerings for the corporate market, as well as for governments and nonprofits.
The model of online courses that anyone can attend is very scalable, making Coursera appealing to investors, especially when the online education market is expected to be worth $20bn+ by 2023. Further, it received B Corp certification in February 2021, propelling its efforts to reduce barriers to high quality education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2020
$130m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$103m
SERIES E
Total funding: $443.1m
Company benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Co-Founder & Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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