Transform Lives Through Education as a Backend Developer at Coursera, a Global Online Learning Powerhouse
Overview
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Canada
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Join the trailblazing team at Coursera, a leading online learning platform founded by Stanford professors, now with a mission to provide universal access to high-quality education. As a certified B Corp, Coursera partners with top universities and industries, serving millions of learners and organizations worldwide. Embrace the opportunity to impact global education in a diverse, remote-first work environment.
- Work on the Content Taxonomy Platform team to innovate and build foundational services.
- Develop scalable systems and infrastructures using modern technologies like Java, MySQL, and Kafka.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive quality and efficiency.
- Take ownership of your work and contribute significantly to the team's roadmap.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Java, microservices, and various storage layers.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Passion for experimentation, metrics analysis, and continuous learning.
No application process details provided. Interested candidates are encouraged to explore relevant Coursera courses to bolster their skills.
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:
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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