Software Engineering 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 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

As an Intern, you will have the opportunity to work on real-world projects, gaining hands-on experience. You will collaborate with experienced engineers, contribute to feature development, and enhance your technical skills in a supportive and fast-paced environment. This role is designed to help you learn, grow, and make an impact while working on meaningful challenges in a highly collaborative setting.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, specify, and implement new features and services across frontend and backend systems.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring that code is well-designed, tested, robust, secure, performant, and readable.
• Identify and solve key problems creatively, with guidance.
• Refactor existing systems, improving maintainability, scalability, and robustness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers, to define and build new features in a highly collaborative agile environment.
• Continuously grow your software engineering skills, working hands-on with modern technologies and best practices.
  
  

What you’ll have

• Currently a 3rd-year student or pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks or backend development concepts.
• Willingness to learn about design patterns and software architecture.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Curiosity, eagerness to learn, and a growth mindset.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a team environment.
  
  

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.

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits, Ireland Benefits & Turkiye Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

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