Senior Software Developer, Coursera
Backend
CA$137.6-172k
+ Bonus + RSU equity programs
Online learning platform
Be an early applicant
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$137.6-172k
+ Bonus + RSU equity programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience working in a software engineering role
- Experience designing highly-scalable and performant microservices and storage layers using languages and infrastructure such as Java, Play, Scala, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, or Kafka
- Experience working in fast-moving team environments with frequent deployments
- Background in using data and metrics to inform technical and product decisions
- Demonstrated history of building and launching products with understanding of API design, system architecture, and data architecture
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Developer on the Monetization team, you'll lead technical initiatives and take significant ownership over service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. You'll design and iterate at startup speed, working with modern Java, MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, and microservices architecture. In this role, you'll balance hands-on development with technical leadership, collaborating across product and engineering to shape both technical decisions and business outcomes
- Software Engineering
- Core competency for designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems at scale
- Technical Design
- Essential for architecting scalable microservices and data modeling solutions
- Agile Product Development
- Essential for fast-moving team environment with frequent deployments and iterative development cycles
- Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures that support Coursera's backend services
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
- Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to understand real-time health and performance of your products
- Participate in product discussions by proposing technical approaches and influencing roadmap decisions through data and system insights
- Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to shape requirements, clarify tradeoffs, and translate business goals into technical designs
- Drive data-informed decisions by analyzing metrics and experiment results to validate product hypotheses
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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