Staff Software Developer, Coursera
Front End
$158.4-209.9k
+ Eligible for bonus and equity
Online learning platform
Job no longer available
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$158.4-209.9k
+ Eligible for bonus and equity
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 relevant frontend software engineering role
- Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience with at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
- Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests
- Proven track record of defining technical roadmaps for a full-stack team
- Experience with mentoring and upleveling teammates
- Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
Desirable
- Experience with contributing to product roadmaps
- Experience as a Tech Lead
- Experience with using AI tools (e.g., Cursor) to improve efficiency and productivity
- Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision
- Experience designing and implementing scalable AI-powered features
What the job involves
- Coursera is an engineering-first company. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community.
- We are made up of teams ranging from Development Infrastructure, Growth, Learner/Consumer Experience, Content Platform, and SDET Engineering.
- Every day, Engineering teams collaborate with cross-functional partners, including other engineers, data scientists, and product managers. We employ continuous delivery to deploy multiple times a day and move quickly as an organization
- As a Frontend Staff Engineer on the Growth Acquisition team, you'll be at the forefront of revolutionizing online learning by building the future of AI-powered, personalized education.
- Our team helps prospective learners take meaningful steps towards commitment in a low-friction, value-adding manner, directly impacting the learning journeys of millions worldwide. We aim to be a seamless, delightful “front door” for Coursera, drawing learners in and helping them engage and commit
- This is a high-impact role within a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, data-driven decision-making, and working closely with learners to help them transform their lives. You will have the opportunity to:
- Mentor and guide frontend engineers, fostering their growth and development, and building a world-class team
- Partner with engineering stakeholders to shape the team’s technical roadmap and strategy, including spotting code smells, identifying and addressing tech debt, and driving refactoring initiatives to improve code quality and maintainability
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture, scalability, and performance, ensuring our learning platform can grow to meet the needs of millions of learners
- Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and build experiences that scale
- Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of core service functionalities
- Champion and implement best practices with a focus on safety, bias mitigation, ethical considerations, and a learner-centric approach
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
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
(Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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