Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 148 million registered learners as of March 31, 2024.
Coursera partners with over 325 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.
Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.
We at Coursera are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. As a remote-first company, our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates.
Job Overview:
Coursera is an engineering-first company. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community. We are made up of teams ranging from Development Infrastructure, Growth, Learner/Consumer Experience, Content Platform, and SDET Engineering. Every day, Engineering teams collaborate with cross-functional partners, including other engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a range of internal teams to evaluate and automate complex systems
- Create tools that accelerate program onboarding, reduce manual work, reduce error ratesEnhance existing tooling and workflows to make them safer and less error-prone
- Build easy to use and intuitive UI to maximize the efficiency of use
- Design and develop integrations with external vendor tools
- Develop tools to scale Coursera’s ability to provide high-quality support to our learners and partners
- Ensure you follow best software development practices including but not limited to unit testing, code reviews and documentation
- Communicate with ease (both written and oral) to all levels of the organization
- Occasional travel between Mountain View, CA and TO
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors in computer science or relevant experience
- Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience in at least one modern UI framework (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
- Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs and writing FE unit and integration tests
- Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
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Coursera was founded by Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to people around the world. Now more than 76 million learners, 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and more than 6,400 campuses, businesses, and governments come to Coursera to access world-class learning.
Why Work With Us
We believe learning is the source of human progress, so our teams work together—and with the best institutions—to bring affordable education to every corner of the world. We've built one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators where people from different domains come to grow their careers while solving the biggest challenges in online learning.
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