About this role
We're excited to say that this is a fully remote role with eligibility to work anywhere in the United States, as well as in Ireland and Turkiye. While you will get together with your team on a semi-regular basis (monthly or quarterly, depending on the team), we want you to thrive wherever you work best!
Udemy has an incredible global impact on scaled online education. The breadth of topical domains we cover, our vibrant instructor community, and the number of organizations relying on Udemy Business to upskill and reskill their staff is unmatched.
When we consider learning science, there are several important phases in the learning journey: passive learning (expanding what you know), active learning (expanding what you can do), and meaningful authentic application of what we learn in our lives and work. To date, much of the learning on the Udemy platform tends toward passive learning. However, as focus shifts globally toward skills, active learning is crucial - whether through authentic and safe practice, or direct skill application in real life.
We are expanding the set of learning activities we support to include far more active practice and "doing" as well as improving our guidance and feedback to learners on skill gaps and competencies. In the case of many technical skills, performed in virtualized software environments, giving learners a safe place to practice these skills in an authentic way is a reality today. Looking forward, the set of skills that fit this criteria is expanding rapidly. We aim for these learning activities to be increasingly authentic and immersive. Our goal is for learners to make the best use of the time they can dedicate to learning.
The focus for this role is to provide engineering oversight and thought leadership across our expanding set of learning activities.
In addition to working directly with the teams in these areas, you will partner closely with leaders guiding our:

• Learner Experience: the end-to-end product flows for Learners
• Instructor Experience: the end-to-end product flows for Instructors authoring and maintaining these learning activities and content
• Native Applications: our customers are spending an increasing portion of their time in our native apps

You will be in a position to transform learning for the planet.
The following Leadership and Technology competencies are important to this role:
A good candidate fit will include demonstrated evidence in these, or a clear passion to learn them.
Leadership:

• Sparking and encouraging innovation
• Decision making: with and without data
• Leading through change: influence and clear communication
• Developing and growing staff and leaders

Technology:

• Analytics to understand our customers and systems (Amplitude, DataDog, etc.)
• Services and APIs (Domain-Driven Design, Containers, Kotlin, Kafka, protobuf, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Data Stores (relational: MySQL, Cloud Native: DynamoDB, Aurora)
• Cloud Native Ecosystem (primarily: AWS & K8s, secondarily: Azure & GCP)
• Web Frontend (React, Next.js, edge compute and micro-frontends)

We understand that not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your background isn't perfectly aligned but you feel you would be a great addition to the team, we'd love to hear from you .
If you just can't wait to learn more about Udemy (believe us, we get it!) and the incredible work that our teams are doing, here are a few more resources:
How Udemy Started [video]
Udemy on Glassdoor
Investor Overview
About Udemy
Udemy is the world's largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors. Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world. UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.
We are proud to be recognized for our world class employee experience:
Udemy Adds More than $1 Billion To Its Valuation in New Funding Round
Udemy's Workplace Learning Tool Just Surpassed $100M in ARR
Paid Paternity Leave Should be the Norm in the U.S.
Breakdown of Most In-Demand Skills for 2020-Finance, Marketing, Sales and Engineering
How Investing in Yourself Today Will Set You Up for Career Success Tomorrow
Feedback Isn't the Problem, but the Way That We Deliver It Is Broken
Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Ankara, Turkey; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Mountain View, California; Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; New Delhi, India; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Udemy Benefits:

• Eligibility: Regular, full-time employees are eligible for Udemy's benefit programs.
• Health Plans: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% coverage for employee-only).
• HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans available; generous HSA employer contributions for those enrolled in the HDHP medical plan.
• Life/Disability: Employer-paid life insurance (supplemental available), in addition to short-term and long-term disability.
• Retirement: Access to 401(k) with annual employer contribution.
• Wellbeing: Corporate memberships for meditation and mindfulness, therapy and coaching, financial planning, primary care, tele-health, health advocacy, parent/newborn support, and employee discounts.
• Education: Free access to the entire course library on the Udemy and Udemy for Business platforms; annual stipend for external learning beginning at six months of employment.
• Charitable Matching Program: Employer match of monetary contributions to eligible nonprofits and charities that carry a 501(c)(3) tax status.
• Vacation: 15 days per year of Paid Time Off for hourly; flexible Discretionary Time Off for salaried.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks of leave at 100% pay for parents who take time off from work following the date of birth, adoption, or foster placement beginning at six months of employment; this amount is in addition to pregnancy-disability benefits at 100% pay, if applicable.
• Holidays: 10 paid holidays throughout the year

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