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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 youYou are a motivated, meticulous Staff Software Engineer with a customer-focused, team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills, who aligns with our core values. You are organized, proactive, and take the initiative to prioritize your’s and the team’s projects effectively.
Fostering a workplace culture of 'individual humility and collectively proud', we look for team players. We value every voice and encourage mutual recognition of accomplishments. Your role involves the continuous celebration of both small and large milestones and deliveries with our global team.
About this roleUdemy is searching for a Staff Software Engineer who embodies our values of authenticity, continuous learning, experimentation, being results-oriented, and being individually humble, yet collectively proud. We expect you to have expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance . We expect proficiency in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable designing and leading very complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters across teams.
As an organization, we are ‘always learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and leveraging our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our learning solutions will be pivotal.
As part of the conversion pod within the monetization portfolio, you will be working on building web applications to help users find their perfect course. You’ll use data to create optimal user experiences and performance metrics to ensure we have blazing fast applications.
What you'll be doing- Implementing product features using your expert skills in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance to meet our team's objectives in service of our users.
- Applying exceptional analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features in your team and with other teams in service of our users.
- Contribute to the optimization of code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
- Contribute to the delivering very complex projects with quality and at scale across your pod and others.
- Identifying, managing and executing solutions for complexity across teams.
- Creating and leveraging dashboards to ensure quality of our experiences, our experiences are solving business problems, and our experiences are meeting our user’s needs.
- A desire to always be learning.
- Technical expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance
- Exceptional skills in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking.
- Ability to break very complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.
- Ability to work independently across domains and lead execution of a team on complex features across pods.
- Ability to design solutions for very complex problems and lead your team to deliver those solutions while working with other teams effectively.
At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.
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 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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What We Do
At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower over 17,000 organizations to scale workforce development and help 81 million individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. 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.
Why Work With Us
As a learning company, we have a rich culture of curiosity. We offer employees free access to every course on the platform, as well as a $1,500 yearly stipend that can be used for educational opportunities, conferences, books, and more. We also host guest speakers and have a comprehensive and internal training curriculum. Become a lifelong learner!
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