Senior Staff Engineer

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.

About This Role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Instructor Interactions and Insights Team at Udemy, you will be responsible for the platforms that manage all aspects of instructor interactions (Direct Message, Announcements, Reviews, Q&A, etc..) and insights (course consumptions, enrollments, etc...). You will work closely with the product, design and data teams to develop platforms to personalize instructor interactions and insights.
What you'll be doing

• Propose an initial technical implementation designed to address architectural changes, specifically targeting scalability and performance issues.

• Tackle complex, high-impact technical challenges within the team's scope and relentlessly refactor systems for enhanced robustness and scalability.

• Drive the end-to-end development, testing, documentation, and release of user-facing features, actively participating in agile collaboration for sprint planning and achieving goals within two-week sprints.

• Foster a collaborative team culture emphasizing quality, robustness, scalability, and innovation. 

• Mentor and guide team members, including junior engineers, for effective feature delivery and continuous development

• Drive the entire software development cycle, leading full-stack development (Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, Django, React, Spark, MySQL, Kafka, Redis) while ensuring quality through rigorous code reviews and post-deployment monitoring

• Lead critical projects with technical expertise while setting high standards for openness, quality, robustness, scalability, and innovation.

About your skills

• Strong Communication Skills: You excel in articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and transparent work environment.
• Leadership and Mentorship Abilities: You have a track record of inspiring and empowering team members, providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: You thrive in dynamic environments, quickly adapting to new technologies, methodologies, and challenges. Your eagerness to learn and ability to pivot effectively contribute to the team's success in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: You approach challenges with a logical and analytical mindset, systematically analyzing problems, identifying root causes, and devising innovative solutions that address both short-term needs and long-term objectives.

What you’ll have

• 6+ years of professional software development experience

• Intrinsic desire to get things done and achieve results

• Gain satisfaction from helping others and contributing to team success

• Experience driving the architecture, engineering, and software design of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications.

• Experience in mentoring, helping, and leading other engineers

• Knowledge of object-oriented design and computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)

• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or any modern object-oriented language

• Experience with Python

• Experience with web application development using modern framework ORMs (e.g. Django, Rails, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc.)

• Experience with web application technologies including HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Experience with AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes

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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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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. 

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