About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.
This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.
About you

You are a motivated, meticulous Engineer with a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills, who aligns with our core values. You are organized and proactive and take the initiative to prioritize your own work and projects effectively.

• Continuous Learning - A strong desire to keep learning and growing, especially in technical competencies and organizational knowledge.
  
• Analytical Problem Solving - The ability to break down moderately complex problems and find effective solutions using cross-functional communication and systems thinking.
  
• Proactiveness and Initiative - Taking ownership of projects, prioritizing work independently, and leading moderately complex projects to completion.
  
• Team-Oriented Mindset - Valuing collaboration, mutual recognition of accomplishments, and fostering a culture of humility and collective pride.
  
• Adaptability in Technology - Comfort in using various technologies while maintaining services and optimizing code and processes.
  
  About this role
  
  Udemy is searching for a Software Engineer who embodies our values of authenticity, continuous learning, experimentation, being results-oriented, and being individually humble, yet collectively proud. We expect you to be comfortable with a combination of Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog or closely related technologies. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing moderately complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.
  
  As an organization, we are 'always learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and plugging into our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.
  What you'll be doing
  
  • Implementing services using your skills in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Terraform or closely related technologies to meet our team's objectives.
    
  • Deploying, monitoring and maintaining a set of critical services in our infrastructure using Datadog and PagerDuty.
    
  • Building user experiences that adhere to a high level of accessibility standards.
    
  • Applying analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features.
    
  • Optimizing code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
    
  • Leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering moderately complex projects at scale.
    
  • Managing complexity within your team while concurrently interacting with teams in adjacent domains.
    
    What you’ll have
    
    • Have a BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline.
      
    • 2+ years of professional software development experience
      
    • Fluency in English language
      
    • Technical competence in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform or closely related technologies.
      
    • Solid understanding of domain-driven design, event-driven development, monolith decomposition patterns.
      
    • Working knowledge of analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking.
      
    • Ability to break moderately complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.
      
      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!
      Life at Udemy
      
      We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:
      
      • We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
        
        
      • Learning is what we do - inside and out. Our Learning &; Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
        
        
      • Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning - that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
        
        
      • We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.
        
        Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?
        
        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.
        Our Benefits Start With U
        
        Our benefits package at Udemy "starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:
        
        • Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
          
          
        • Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week "ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
          
          
        • Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
          
          
        • Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
          
          
        • Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities
          
          
        • Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)
          
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