Job Description & How to Apply Below
As a Staff Software Developer on the Monetization team, you’ll lead technical initiatives and take significant ownership over service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. You’ll design and iterate at startup speed, working with modern Java, MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, and microservices architecture. In this role, you’ll balance hands‑on development with technical leadership, collaborating across product and engineering to shape both technical decisions and business outcomes
Software Engineering
Core competency for designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems at scale
Technical Design
Essential for architecting scalable microservices and data modeling solutions
Agile Product Development
Essential for fast‑moving team environment with frequent deployments and iterative development cycles
Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures that support Coursera’s backend services
Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to understand real‑time health and performance of your products
Participate in product discussions by proposing technical approaches and influencing roadmap decisions through data and system insights
Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to shape requirements, clarify tradeoffs, and translate business goals into technical designs
Drive data‑informed decisions by analyzing metrics and experiment results to validate product hypotheses
Benefits Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
Get up to 16 weeks of fully‑paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
We host Make‑a‑thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make‑a‑thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day‑to‑day work
Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Requirements Experience working in fast‑moving team environments with frequent deployments
Demonstrated history of building and launching products with understanding of API design, system architecture, and data architecture
Background in using data and metrics to inform technical and product decisions
7+ years of experience working in a software engineering role
Experience designing highly‑scaled and performant microservices and storage layers using languages and infrastructure such as Java, Play, Scala, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, or Kafka
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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