Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

Senior Software Engineer - UB Ecosystems

About Udemy

Udemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors.  Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world.  UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.

We are proud to be recognized for our world class employee experience:
Business Insider SF: Best Places to Work Bay Area
Built In Colorado: Best Places to Work
Best Workplaces (Great Place to Work List): #1 in Turkey
Certified Best Place to Work:  Dublin
Fortune: Change the World Company

About The Role

Udemy for Business helps global companies stay competitive in the digital transformation of the workplace by offering fresh, personalized, and on-demand learning content. Our business offering leverages the marketplace catalogue of over 100,000 courses serving upward of 30M students. We are looking for a full-stack engineer to help us build out and scale up the best workplace learning experience in the industry.

You will be responsible for developing microservices and APIs that enable our enterprise customers to easily and seamlessly integrate Udemy for Business with their internal systems such as Learning Experience Platforms (LXP), Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS). You will collaborate on developing product features, working on designing intuitive UI interactions, convenient APIs and a scalable architecture behind it all. Furthermore, your team will be responsible for high-level monitoring and reliability of the features and services that you build.

Today we like React/MobX for UI and Python/Django/MySQL on the backend, but we are constantly reevaluating our choices to make sure we use the right tools for the job, so we’re also working with Docker, ElasticSearch, AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes where appropriate. We also like microservices. Our team members have a wide variety of backgrounds and we strongly believe that diversity, open-mindedness, and good communication yield the best results. We are looking for someone to join the team who has demonstrable experience in some of the areas listed below and a desire to learn and master anything else that comes their way - we are a learning company after all!

The challenges you will face include

  • Actively participating in discussions with stakeholders on which features to build and how to build them
  • Writing clean, tested and scalable code and designing microservices
  • Building GraphQL APIs for inter-service communication
  • Developing great UX experiences for configuring integrations
  • Building monitoring and diagnostics tools

Key competencies

  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Python/Django or similar language/ORM
  • Microservices
  • Modern JavaScript: ES6, React/MobX or similar framework
  • Relational databases (MySQL, Postgres)
  • SSO (SAML, OIDC)
  • LMS/LXP/HRMS systems