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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.
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 Austin, Texas, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
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.
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.
About This Role The Core Services team is responsible for some of the key services on Udemy’s teaching and learning platform. We work primarily with a high‑volume, low‑latency microservices environment built on Kotlin, Spring, GraphQL, Kotlin, gRPC, and DynamoDB. Working on the team, you will build the APIs and microservices for products and features that impact millions of learners.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to the process of defining and designing features in a highly collaborative agile environment.
Design, specify and implement features and services.
Participate in code reviews making sure that our code is well designed, tested, robust, secure, performant and readable.
Document, monitor and maintain features post‑release.
Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.
Grow your Software Engineering skills!
Qualifications
Minimum three (3) years of experience as a full‑stack or backend software engineer.
Experience building APIs and backend services called by frontend interfaces.
Knowledge of Object‑Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms). Web application development using modern frameworks.
Experience with testing methods, including unit and integration tests.
Minimum 2 years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language.
Excellent communication skills in English.
Preferred but not required: Experience with microservice development and communications using gRPC; Experience with Spring Boot microservices; Experience defining and developing APIs with GraphQL; Experience working with real‑time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, etc.; Familiarity with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.); Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, etc.).
Posting Date: October 1st, 2025
Application Window: Until October 15th, 2025 (may close earlier or remain posted longer based on business needs).
Hiring Compensation Range $109,000 — $136,000 USD.
Benefits Our benefits are designed to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our regional benefits pages for detailed information. Benefits outlined are a general overview and may vary by 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.
Equal Opportunity Statement 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. While we recognize that not everyone will match each qualification, we welcome applicants whose experiences and perspectives can add value to our company.
Data Privacy Notice Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
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Software Engineer
role at
Udemy .
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.
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 Austin, Texas, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
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.
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.
About This Role The Core Services team is responsible for some of the key services on Udemy’s teaching and learning platform. We work primarily with a high‑volume, low‑latency microservices environment built on Kotlin, Spring, GraphQL, Kotlin, gRPC, and DynamoDB. Working on the team, you will build the APIs and microservices for products and features that impact millions of learners.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to the process of defining and designing features in a highly collaborative agile environment.
Design, specify and implement features and services.
Participate in code reviews making sure that our code is well designed, tested, robust, secure, performant and readable.
Document, monitor and maintain features post‑release.
Contribute to a team culture that values openness, inclusiveness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.
Grow your Software Engineering skills!
Qualifications
Minimum three (3) years of experience as a full‑stack or backend software engineer.
Experience building APIs and backend services called by frontend interfaces.
Knowledge of Object‑Oriented software design patterns and computer science fundamentals (e.g. data structures, algorithms). Web application development using modern frameworks.
Experience with testing methods, including unit and integration tests.
Minimum 2 years of experience with Java, Kotlin or other strongly typed language.
Excellent communication skills in English.
Preferred but not required: Experience with microservice development and communications using gRPC; Experience with Spring Boot microservices; Experience defining and developing APIs with GraphQL; Experience working with real‑time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, Kafka, DynamoDB, etc.; Familiarity with container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Marathon, Nomad, etc.); Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog, etc.).
Posting Date: October 1st, 2025
Application Window: Until October 15th, 2025 (may close earlier or remain posted longer based on business needs).
Hiring Compensation Range $109,000 — $136,000 USD.
Benefits Our benefits are designed to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our regional benefits pages for detailed information. Benefits outlined are a general overview and may vary by 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.
Equal Opportunity Statement 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. While we recognize that not everyone will match each qualification, we welcome applicants whose experiences and perspectives can add value to our company.
Data Privacy Notice Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
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