Senior Software Engineer

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.

About You

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About Your Skills

• Adaptability and Learning Agility: You thrive in dynamic environments, quickly adapting to new technologies, methodologies, and challenges. Your eagerness to learn and ability to pivot effectively contribute to the team's success in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Cross-functional Partnership: You excel in managing stakeholder expectations, fostering positive relationships with internal teams, users, and other key stakeholders, and effectively communicating technical decisions, project progress, and milestones.

About the Role

The Conversion team at Udemy is focused on empowering learners to effortlessly discover, select, and purchase the best learning solutions to achieve their goals. Our focus is on crafting seamless customer journeys filled with rich, relevant content.

As a Software Engineer on the Conversion Team at Udemy, your main task will be enhancing our technology architecture and landing experiences through bold initiatives guided by data-centric experimentations. You'll play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth creation and delivery of contents to millions of learners worldwide. Collaboration with product, design, and data teams will be key as we aim to create landing experiences that prioritize ease-of-use and personalization. This position offers thrilling challenges at the heart of Udemy's mission. We're seeking an engineer who can help define and amplify the core value of our products on a global scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Working with your team along with your cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, and others to help define a roadmap, deliver features, drive execution, and identify areas for development.
• Using skills like driving results, analytical problem solving, decision making, and active listening to effectively drive execution.
• Implement new front-end experiences with back-end services served over GraphQL.
• Participate in code reviews making sure that our code is well designed, tested, robust, secure, and performant.
• Incorporate Experiment-Driven development in your daily work in order to improve overall customer journey.
• Participate in daily standup team meetings/bi-weekly sprint planning & sprint-end demo/retrospective and work cross-functionally with other teams to drive product innovation.

What You’ll Have

• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of full-time engineering experience
• Demonstrated abilities in JavaScript and TypeScript
• Understanding of React, including React Hooks & Functional Components (or equivalent front-end frameworks)
• Experience designing scalable, secure and performant APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC)
• Willingness to learn and operate across the stack with Front End and Web Performance focuses
• Experience working with medium-sized agile development teams
• Well organized, disciplined, and able to manage time and priorities effectively

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!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability.

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:

• Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
• Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
• Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
• Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
• Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities
• Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)

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