Sr. Software Engineer - Backend (Developer Experience)

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Canada
5-7 Years Experience
Consumer Web • Edtech • Enterprise Web • Social Impact
We offer anyone, anywhere access to online courses and degrees from world-class universities.
The Role
Developer Experience team at Coursera is responsible for enhancing development and operation efficiency by providing necessary tooling and infrastructure. The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with internal teams, lead design and development of core service functionalities, and mentor fellow engineers.
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Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 148 million registered learners as of March 31, 2024.

Coursera partners with over 325 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

We at Coursera are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. As a remote-first company, our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates.

Job Overview:

Developer Experience is an infrastructure team that makes our engineers productive by providing all the necessary tooling, core libraries for services, and application scaffolding. By creating necessary abstractions, the team helps our developers focus on the business logic of their backend services and frontend applications without dealing with infrastructure concerns. Some of the notable components that the team owns are CI/CD, local build and testing systems, shared libraries, server-side rendering, and GraphQL infrastructure.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal engineering teams to understand their needs and come up with solutions that can enhance development and operation efficiency at scale.
  • Work with architects and engineers to recommend, develop and review technical designs.
  • Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of core service functionalities.
  • Mentor and guide fellow remote-first engineers to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective software engineers.

Your Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
  • 6+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role.
  • Expertise in designing highly scalable and performant micro-services using Spring Boot.
  • Experience serving as technical lead throughout the full SDLC, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance.
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen, inquisitive eye for detail along with a passion for high-quality standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science.
  • Experience working in an infrastructure/platform team.
  • Hands-on experience with Gradle.
  • If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

    • Object Oriented Java Programming: Data Structures and Beyond Specialization
    • Object Oriented Programming in Java Specialization
    • Introduction to Programming with Python and Java Specialization
    • Functional Programming in Scala Specialization


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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.

 

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

 

For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.

For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.

Top Skills

Java
The Company
1,000 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Coursera was founded by Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to people around the world. Now more than 76 million learners, 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and more than 6,400 campuses, businesses, and governments come to Coursera to access world-class learning.

Why Work With Us

We believe learning is the source of human progress, so our teams work together—and with the best institutions—to bring affordable education to every corner of the world. We've built one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators where people from different domains come to grow their careers while solving the biggest challenges in online learning.

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