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Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.

Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home.

Learn more about us on our company page.

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 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

What you’ll have

Have a BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline; or equivalent alternative degree or work experience.
2+ 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.

Why work here?

You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

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. We understand that not everyone will match each of the 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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