Senior Staff Software Engineer, Udemy

Full Stack

Salary not provided

PHP

SQL

React

JavaScript

Python

Django

GraphQL

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Linux

Ruby

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Rails

Unix

Senior and Expert level

Boston

Platform for online educational courses

Job no longer available

Platform for online educational courses

1001+ employees

B2CEducationVideo

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

PHP

SQL

React

JavaScript

Python

Django

GraphQL

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Linux

Ruby

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Rails

Unix

Senior and Expert level

Boston

1001+ employees

B2CEducationVideo

Company mission

Udemy's mission is to improve users' lives through learning. Its online platform gives customers - from students and entrepreneurs to governments and organisations - access to hundreds of thousands of educational courses.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer
Demonstrated excellence in front-end JavaScript web development using modern libraries/frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, etc)
Experience with object oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms)
Experience with Python or other server-side scripting languages and runtimes such as Nodejs, Ruby, PHP, etc
Experience with Relational Databases (e.g. MySQL) including development of complex SQL queries
Experience with Web Framework ORMs (e.g. Django, Rails, Zend, etc.)Linux and/or Unix experience
Experience with NoSQL and text-indexing infrastructure: Redis, Elasticsearch
Experience with real-time messaging; Kafka, RabbitMQ, CeleryAppreciation of testing methods, including unit, integration, and synthetic tests
Ability to learn and work with existing code bases, up and down the software stack
Enthusiasm to "go the extra mile" when needed

Desirable

Contribution to open source projects
Public speaking or technical blog skills

What the job involves

Designing, developing, testing, and releasing features for Udemy’s user facing products that are crucial for business expansion and growth
Collaborating with product managers, designers and engineers to identify opportunities and implement solutions that provide positive value to our students and our business
Planning, organizing, and completing work within agile sprints
Communicating effectively on progress and meeting expectations
Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and developing features and solutions that scale
Serving as a technical lead for various projects/tasks as needed
Coaching and mentoring junior engineers to become proficient developers
Contributing to a team culture that values openness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation
Identifying and evaluating new technologies that improve performance, maintainability and elegance of our software systems

Our take

With over 40 million students, and a set of specialist upskilling programmes (especially for businesses and governments), Udemy has become a leading virtual education provider for students and businesses alike.

They've been smart in spreading their short-courses across various sectors. In particular, capitalizing on the adult re-training stream may have helped them stay the course through the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is by no means a given, as competitors Udacity, Kano, and Lynda have recently faded out of sight or belt-tightened through re-structuring.

In late 2020 Udemy raised $50 million, taking their valuation to over $3 billion. They intend to continue global expansion, with suggestions they may branch out with acquisitions that complement their current course offerings. Udemy do not currently offer language learning, for example, and are unlikely to successfully compete with market-dominant language tools like DuoLingo. Such strategic growth could see them continue to lead an exciting and developing market.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Nov 2020

$50m

Feb 2020

$50m

Total funding: $273m

Company benefits

Company stock options
Free Udemy subscription
Gym discount
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Eren Bali

(Chairman)

Having worked as a Developer for Gunlukbasin.com, Dovetail.tv, and BitGravity, Eren co-founded Eofer in 2005 and then Knowband in 2007. After 3 years at speeddate.com as a Founding Engineer, they co-founded Udemy in January 2010. They now serve as Chairman as well as being CEO of Carbon Health.

Gregg Coccari

(CEO, not founder)

They have previously been President and CEO at Teleflora, NetQuote and Futuredontics. They left their role as CEO at Stella and Chewy's to join Udemy as CEO in 2019.

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