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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Team Collaboration: You excel in fostering collaboration within cross-functional teams, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to achieve common goals and deliver successful outcomes.
The Core Services team is responsible for some of the key services on Udemy’s teaching and learning platform. We work primarily with a high-volume, low-latency microservices environment built on Kotlin, Spring, GraphQL, Kotlin, gRPC, and DynamoDB. Working on the team, you will build the APIs and microservices for products and features that impact millions of learners.
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 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
- 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.)
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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 UdemyWe 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 UOur 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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