Software Engineer Intern

About Us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

Hybrid work

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. This hybrid position requires two days per week in the Dublin office. Learn more about us on our company page.

About You

We are looking for enthusiastic candidates with an education background in computer science or related STEM disciplines who are passionate about the latest technologies for developing scalable and user-friendly web products. If you are a self-starter and someone who is excited to join us and learn how we build our platforms and features, we are interested in talking to you!

About This Role

Engineering teams at Udemy build & manage several microservices that power the Udemy B2B and D2C products. As an intern, you will help enhance, scale, and design backend services while contributing to the transition from a monolithic to a distributed service architecture.

What you'll be doing:

• Learn our technology stack and development processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and design new features in an agile environment.
• Design, specify, and implement new features and services.
• Review code to ensure quality, security, and performance.
• Document, monitor, and maintain new features post-release.
  
  

Ideal candidate will have

• Education in computer science, mathematics or other related analytical (i.e. STEM) disciplines.
• Experience with modern programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#.
• Knowledge of developing distributed web applications, including cloud-based architectures.
• Design and architecture knowledge, as well as familiarity with object-oriented design patterns.
  
  

About Your Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively in a team, share ideas, and adapt to feedback.
  
  

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
• Learning is what we do—inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. Learn more about our certification here and find out what it's like to work at Udemy on our blog.
  
  

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.