Overview
Coursera was launched in 2012 by 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 175 million registered learners as of March 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading universities and industry leaders to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
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.
At Coursera, we 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.
Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.
Job Overview:
Coursera is bootstrapping a new development center in India. This is an unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission critical charter but also play a significant role in shaping the culture for the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products.
As an engineer on the Enterprise team at Coursera, you will play a key role in designing and building Tier-1 applications that power critical online purchase flows within Coursera's enterprise contract product. This includes everything from discovery and checkout, to payments, taxes, and invoicing.
You will have the opportunity to tackle complex, full-stack technical challenges while influencing the future direction of our product roadmap. In this role, you’ll work closely with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, solution architects, and talented engineers, collaborating to deliver high-impact features and contribute to revenue-critical services that are central to Coursera's growth.
We’re looking for an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment, with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for building scalable, high-performance solutions
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable & robust frontend applications
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
- Write and review technical documentation for the components owned by your team
- Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in Java, Scale or similar languages) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
- Debug and fix production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure adherence to the service level agreements (SLAs)
- Collaborate and mentor team members, and contribute to teams' success improving processes
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience working in a relevant frontend software engineering role
- Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience in at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
- Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests
- Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
- 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:
- Candidates with prior experience in start-up environments are preferred, specifically those who have been part of a bootstrapping team, small start-up team, or expansion team.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products or services.
- Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision.
If this opportunity interests you, you might like this course on Coursera:
- Google Cloud Engineering Professional Certificate
- Front-End Web Development with React
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India