Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services

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 nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 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. Learn more about us on our company page.

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 office at the nearest hub. Learn more about us on our company page.

About This Role:

The Platform Services team builds software and systems to support the ongoing development/maintenance of 200+ microservices and microfrontends being built and updated across the organization. Working on the team, you will build libraries, work on CI/CD patterns, testing frameworks, build quality standards, and more. The team also regularly prototypes and rolls out new tooling, all in the name of finding the most efficient systems to automate, allowing feature teams to build new functionality with increasing efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and release libraries, components, and tools for creating and maintaining best in class services and frontends at Udemy.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies that improve performance, maintainability and robustness of our backend software.
• Plan, organize, and complete work within agile sprints. Communicate effectively on progress towards meeting expectations.
• Contribute in code reviews, design discussions, and develop features and solutions that scale.
• Use best software development practices and adopt patterns of the team and organization to develop consistent and maintainable code
• Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer.
• Ability to learn and work with existing code bases.
• Knowledge of Object Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms).Web application development using modern frameworks.
• Minimum 4 years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language
• Basic understanding of persistent scaled datastores (SQL, NoSQL)
• Experience building backend services called by frontend interfaces
• Experience with Testing methods, including unit and integration tests.
• Experience with containerization technologies (docker, lxc, etc.).
• Experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.).
• Experience working with cloud computing services providers (AWS, Google cloud platform, Azure, etc.).
  
  

Preferred but not required:

• Experience with microservice development and communications using gRPC.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as NextJS
• Experience working with Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, HoneyComb etc)
  
  

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.
  
  

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.

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