Job Description
About us
At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others. Learn more about us on our.
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 This Role:
The Platform Services team builds software and systems to support the ongoing development/maintenance of 200+ microservices and microfrontends being built and updated across the organization. Working on the team, you will build libraries, work on CI/CD patterns, testing frameworks, build quality standards, and more. The team also regularly prototypes and rolls out new tooling, all in the name of finding the most efficient systems to automate, allowing feature teams to build new functionality with increasing efficiency.
About your skills
Strong Communication Skills: You excel in articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and transparent work environment.
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.
Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: You approach challenges with a logical and analytical mindset, systematically analyzing problems, identifying root causes, and devising innovative solutions that address both short-term needs and long-term objectives.
Team Collaboration: You excel in fostering collaboration within cross-functional teams, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to achieve common goals and deliver successful outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, and release libraries, components, and tools for creating and maintaining best in class services and frontends at Udemy.
Identify and evaluate new technologies that improve performance, maintainability and robustness of our backend software.
Plan, organize, and complete work within agile sprints. Communicate effectively on progress towards meeting expectations.
Contribute in code reviews, design discussions, and develop features and solutions that scale.
Use best software development practices and adopt patterns of the team and organization to develop consistent and maintainable code
Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.
Qualifications:
Minimum five (5) years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer.
Ability to learn and work with existing code bases.
Knowledge of Object Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms).Web application development using modern frameworks.
Minimum 4 years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language
Basic understanding of persistent scaled datastores (SQL, NoSQL)
Experience building backend services called by frontend interfaces
Experience with Testing methods, including unit and integration tests.
Experience with containerization technologies (docker, lxc, etc.).
Experience with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.).
Experience working with cloud computing services providers (AWS, Google cloud platform, Azure, etc.).
Preferred but not required:
Experience with microservice development and communications using gRPC.
Experience with frontend frameworks such as NextJS
Experience working with Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, Kafka, etc.
Experience with Spring Boot Microservices
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, HoneyComb etc)
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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!
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