About the Role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Web Front-End Tech team, you will work closely with engineering, product manager, and design to develop world-class web experiences for learners on our platform. You will be helping them find the right course and engage directly with course content. We're looking for applicants that are curious about the possibility of technology, put an emphasis on delivering quality solutions and match our cultural values . You will put an emphasis on pragmatic solutions and customer experience. You'll probably have a couple of years working in the industry, but we care less about how long you've been working and more about what you've been doing. We'd love to hear about what you've worked on, how it was built, and why it was a success.
Here is what you will be doing:

• Developing, testing, documenting, and releasing end-to-end features for Udemy's web application that supports over 50+ million students worldwide and 183,000+ courses
• Work closely with engineering, product and design to create the best possible experiences for customers using the Udemy website (desktop and mobile)
• Provide peer review and quality assurance support to other engineers and receive the same feedback on all code output. Maintain and advocate best practices for Frontend development through code review.
• Grow and be mentored in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies
• Learn new technologies, frameworks, and systems and share your knowledge with the web team
• Write code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Help identify areas of improvements in the code base for your team and others and help contribute to make it better
• Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Planning, organizing, and getting work done in 2-week sprints
• Embrace our culture of collaboration, transparent, inclusive, respectful, feedback with open and direct communication.
• Represent Udemy and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.

We're Excited About You Because You Have:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts (We love Typescript!)
• Professional experience with ReactJS or another modern JavaScript web framework
• Experience with writing automated tests (eg. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape,
• React testing library) Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• A desire to grow your expertise in modern web development

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.
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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