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Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services
Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in the office at the nearest hub. Learn more about us on our company page.
About Your Skills:
Systems Thinking: You can zoom out to see how services, libraries, and tools fit into a larger ecosystem of 200+ microservices and microfrontends. You spot patterns, anticipate bottlenecks, and design solutions that scale across teams.
Collaboration: You thrive in code reviews and design discussions, balancing strong opinions with openness to feedback. You know how to influence without blocking, and build trust across engineering groups.
Adaptability: You are comfortable diving into existing codebases and quickly getting up to speed. You balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, and you pivot smoothly when new priorities emerge.
Technical Craftsmanship: You care about quality and reliability, not just getting code out the door. You write clear, testable, maintainable code and help set standards that elevate the whole organization.
Innovation: You don’t just accept the current state of tooling and processes—you explore new frameworks, experiment with prototypes, and introduce practices that make building and deploying software more efficient.
About This Role:
The Platform Services team builds software and systems to support the ongoing development/maintenance of 200+ microservices and microfrontends being built and updated across the organization. Working on the team, you will build libraries, work on CI/CD patterns, testing frameworks, build quality standards, and more. The team also regularly prototypes and rolls out new tooling, all in the name of finding the most efficient systems to automate, allowing feature teams to build new functionality with increasing efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, and release libraries, components, and tools for creating and maintaining best in class services and frontends at Udemy.
Identify and evaluate new technologies that improve performance, maintainability and robustness of our backend software.
Plan, organize, and complete work within agile sprints. Communicate effectively on progress towards meeting expectations.
Contribute in code reviews, design discussions, and develop features and solutions that scale.
Use best software development practices and adopt patterns of the team and organization to develop consistent and maintainable code
Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.
5+ years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer.
Ability to learn and work with existing code bases.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices is a MUST
Knowledge of Object Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms).Web application development using modern frameworks.
4+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language
Basic understanding of persistent scaled datastores (SQL, NoSQL)
Experience building backend services called by frontend interfaces
Experience with Testing methods, including unit and integration tests.
Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, lxc, etc.).
Experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.).
Experience working with cloud computing services providers (AWS, Google cloud platform, Azure, etc.).
Preferred but not required:
Experience with Microservice development and communications using gRPC.
Experience with frontend frameworks such as NextJS
Experience working with Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka, etc.
Experience with Spring Boot Microservices
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, HoneyComb etc)
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 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 Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US 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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