ABOUT UDEMY

Udemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors. Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world. UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.

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Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Ankara, Turkey; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Mountain View, California; Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; New Delhi, India; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an engineer in the Structured Data backend/services team, you will enhance and build the taxonomy and classification services that underpin Udemy’s vision of guided learning for our 50 million users. The suite of services includes categories, course topics, user occupations, skills graph, course reviews and badges. The new tech stack is Kotlin, Spring Boot, gRPC, Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, Redis, JPA, GraphQL, Kubernetes and Datadog. As we build new capabilities on the new tech stack, we are also migrating out of the monolithic Python Django tech stack.

The key responsibilities are:

• Understand product requirements for subscriptions features and implement engineering solutions

• Interact with other domains such as Search, Recommendations and Instructor

• Produce elegant design documents

• Conduct and participate in design and code reviews

• Incorporate security and observability in the designs

• Monitor production and share on-call responsibilities

• Have fun, learn and grow!

DESIRED SKILLS

• 2+ years of professional software development experience

• Experience with a functional programming language such as Kotlin, Scala, or Java 8+

• Experience in web services development using frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Experience using messaging technologies such as Kafka

• Experience using SQL and NoSQL databases

• Familiarity with gRPC

• Familiarity with GraphQL

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker

VACCINE MANDATE (US ONLY)

Udemy is committed to keeping its employees, clients, and communities safe. Accordingly, we require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if their work requires them to come into a Udemy office or come into close contact with others. If you are unable to get vaccinated due to a medical condition, disability, sincerely-held religious belief, or as otherwise required by applicable law, we will consider requests for accommodation.

Udemy is the leading global marketplace for learning and teaching online, where more than 50 million students learn from over 175,000 courses taught by expert instructors in 75+ languages. Whether learning for professional development or personal enrichment, students can master new skills through self-paced, on-demand courses.