Senior Software Engineer

Job posting date: Nov 19th 2025

Application deadline: Dec 3rd 2025

 

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 your skills

• Craftsmanship: You take pride in building performant, scalable, and maintainable backend and frontend services. You write clean code, pay attention to detail, and leverage modern frameworks to deliver high-quality service capabilities.
• Ownership: You lead by example, taking initiative and accountability for your work. You independently scope, execute, and drive projects forward, while proactively resolving blockers and raising the bar for your team.
• Execution: You break down moderately complex problems into milestones and deliverables. You optimize for impact, focus on scalable solutions, and help your team ship reliably and iteratively.
• Collaboration: You work closely with cross-functional peers to deliver service capabilities. You clearly communicate technical trade-offs and foster alignment across engineering, product, and other stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: You approach problems with analytical rigor and a systems mindset. You debug effectively, identify root causes, and contribute to solutions that improve both the product and team workflows.
• Learning Mindset: You embody Udemy’s spirit of continuous learning. You stay up to date on best practices, seek feedback, and help others grow through knowledge-sharing and mentoring.

 

About this role

Udemy is searching for a Senior 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 be comfortable with a combination of frontend and backend technologies. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.

You will be joining our Trust & Identity team to build high-impact, customer-facing authentication features that support millions of learners and instructors worldwide. You’ll help protect our users from security risks and abuse while modernizing our login and signup experiences using the latest authentication standards. You’ll also deepen your expertise by anticipating how bad actors might target our platform and implementing safeguards that keep our community safe.

As an organization, we are always learning. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and utilizing our own platform for continuous development. Your dedication to growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal to your success.

 

What you’ll be doing

• Writing code using your skills in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Kubernetes and user interfaces in ReactJS, Typescript, MobX or closely related technologies to meet your team's objectives.
• Deploying, monitoring and maintaining a set of critical services in our infrastructure using Datadog and FireHydrant Signals.
• Building user experiences that adhere to a high level of accessibility standards.
• Applying analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features.
• Optimizing code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
• Leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering projects at scale.
• Managing complexity within your team while concurrently interacting with teams in adjacent domains.
• Work closely with product, design and other team partners to ensure our implementations meet business outcomes.
• Mentoring and teaching engineers junior to you.

 

What you’ll have

• Have a BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline; or equivalent alternative degree or work experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Technical competence in some of the following technologies or similar, Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL, GraphQL, Kubernetes.
• Practitioner in some of the following technologies or similar, ReactJS, Typescript, frontend state management, HTML, CSS.
• Solid understanding of domain-driven design, event-driven development and monolith decomposition patterns.
• Analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking skills.
• Ability to break moderately complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.

 

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

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