Software Engineer

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Udemy is an AI-powered reskilling platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.

Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home.

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Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays .

About your skills

• You are a motivated, meticulous Software Engineer with a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills.


• You take lead and ownership over your work with relentless focus, act as one team by working collaboratively with your team members, and never stop learning.

About this role

The Learner Success team is responsible for features on Udemy’s teaching and learning platform. We work primarily with react and a microservices environment built on Kotlin, Spring, GraphQL, gRPC, and DynamoDB. Working on the team, you will build the APIs and microservices for products and features that impact millions of learners. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing moderately complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.

As an organization, we are ‘always learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and leveraging our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.

As part of the Learner Success team, you will be working on improving the experience of learning for our learners. This includes our course taking experience - our most vital experience for learners! You will do this by ensuring great learning experiences that are built on top of our latest frameworks like GraphQL and Kotlin services leveraging Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures.

What you’ll be doing

• Contribute to the process of defining and designing features in a highly collaborative agile environment


• Design, specify and implement features and services


• Participate in code reviews making sure that our code is well designed, tested, robust, secure, performant and readable


• Document, monitor and maintain features post-release


• Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation


• Grow your Software Engineering skills!

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer


• Experience building APIs and backend services called by frontend interfaces


• Knowledge of Object Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms).Web application development using modern frameworks


• Experience with Testing methods, including unit and integration tests


• Minimum 2 years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language


• Excellent communication skills in English

Preferred but not required

• Experience with microservice development and communications using gRPC.


• Experience with Spring Boot Microservices


• Experience defining and developing APIs with GraphQL


• Experience working with Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, etc.


• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.)


• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, etc.)

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.

Hiring Compensation Range

$109,000 - $136,000 USD

Why work here?

You’ll grow here. Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here. We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work. We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You’ll build with others. We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You’ll see your impact. What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.

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.

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 understand that not everyone will match each of the 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!

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