Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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 in Chennai, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About Your Skills

• Analytical Problem-Solving: You excel at analyzing complex challenges and devising purposeful solutions that create a global impact.
• Innovation Leadership: You are driven to lead the way in innovation, exploring cutting-edge technologies and discovering new solutions to pressing problems.
• Collaboration: You thrive in a collaborative environment, working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
• Learning and Growth: You are eager to learn from and work alongside top talent, continuously improving your skills and contributing to a culture of excellence.
  
  

The Globalization team at Udemy is on a mission to make learning accessible to everyone, everywhere.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and building the systems that allow Udemy to scale globally. You will tackle complex technical challenges—from optimizing payment flows for specific regions to re-imagining content discovery for different cultures. You will serve as a technical anchor for the team, driving best practices, influencing architectural decisions, and ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and ready for millions of global users.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead Technical Design: Drive the design and implementation of complex, high-scale features and services. You will take vague requirements and turn them into concrete, scalable technical architectures.
• Build & Deploy: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of backend and full-stack features using technologies like Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, Django, React, Kafka, Redis, and MySQL.
• Mentorship: Act as a mentor to junior and mid-level engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting thorough code reviews, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Drive Quality: Champion best practices in testing, observability, and documentation. You will ensure our services are production-ready and easy to maintain.
• Collaborate: Partner deeply with Product Managers and Designers to shape the product roadmap. You will provide technical feasibility assessments and propose innovative solutions to business problems.
• Solve Hard Problems: Troubleshoot complex production issues, identify bottlenecks in our distributed systems, and implement long-term fixes.
  
  

• Education: B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of delivering complex applications in a distributed environment.
• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in at least one object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python).
• Web & API Development: Experience working on web applications or APIs, with a strong understanding of HTTP, REST, and modern backend patterns.
• Infrastructure & Data: Exposure to databases (SQL or NoSQL), caching systems (e.g., Redis), and cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
• System Design: Strong understanding of distributed system architecture, design patterns, data modeling, and scalability principles and experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Frontend experience with modern frontend frameworks like React.js and Next.js, along with an understanding of SSR and frontend performance.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to drive technical consensus and explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  
  

• Experience with Spring Boot and GraphQL.
• Experience with gRPC/Protobuf.
• Background in Internationalization (i18n) or building global-ready products.
• Exposure to microservice architecture and containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes.
  
  

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!

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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