Backend Software Engineer (Content Platform)
Coursera
Job Responsibility:
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:
As a Backend Developer, you'll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at start-up speed. In this role, you'll take up significant technical ownership for Coursera in these areas: service architecture, product API development, data modeling, and more. Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), Kafka, and more within a microservices architecture. You'll be joining our Content Taxonomy Platform team where you'll contribute to the core foundations of content models and credentials at Coursera. You'll build mission-critical services that are the building blocks of Coursera's content. This is an opportunity to work with highly scalable services with unique challenges and opportunities.Responsibilities :
- Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures.
- et up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand the real-time health of your products.
- Work closely with product experience teams to collaborate on end-to-end user experience and edge cases.
- Drive initiatives and own your work: you will be responsible for identifying high-leverage opportunities and participating as a key player in shaping the roadmap of the team.
- Design and implement extensible systems: you will design and build systems that can be reused to power different use cases to support multiple teams.
- Strive for quality: you will proactively measure and monitor the health of our platform and constantly fill the gaps you observe.
- Collaborate with cross-team stakeholders: you will work closely with peer engineers and product experience teams to drive the adoption of our platform and tools.
- Be an effective teammate: you will align your goals with the team's goals and positively influence other team members through collaboration.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
- Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g. Java, Play/Scala, MySql, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
- 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on a platform team.
Non-Technical Attributes:
- Imagine a team of like-minded, empowered individuals who are able to collaborate remotely on projects from start to finish. You'll have the freedom and flexibility you need as an engineer while still being involved in important discussions that help us achieve our goals together!
- You'll be empowered to own exciting features from ideation and design through to production.
- Continuous delivery with many releases daily.
- Inclusive, remote-first engineering team: We've created remote-first training and tools to support a strong, distributed culture.
- Supportive culture of learning and growth.
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