Staff Software Engineer

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. T his is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays .

About your skills

Technical Leadership : You bring deep technical expertise and a strong architectural mindset. You consistently make high-quality technical decisions, mentor others, and set the standard for code quality, performance, and accessibility.

Systems Thinking : You understand how features and services connect across the platform. You deconstruct complex, ambiguous problems into clear, scalable solutions and anticipate downstream effects across teams and systems.

Execution at Scale : You lead the design and delivery of large, multi-team initiatives. You guide others through prioritization, scoping, and trade-off discussions to ship high-quality experiences efficiently.

Collaboration : You are a trusted partner to engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists. You facilitate alignment across stakeholders and bring clarity to complex problems through strong written and verbal communication.

Ownership : You take responsibility for driving work forward and raising the bar. You proactively identify issues and opportunities, own solutions end-to-end, and hold a high bar for yourself and others.

Continuous Learning : You model a growth mindset. You stay up-to-date on evolving frontend best practices and tooling, actively seek feedback, and share your learnings to help your team and peers grow.

About you

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

Fostering a workplace culture of 'individual humility and collectively proud', we look for team players. We value every voice and encourage mutual recognition of accomplishments. Your role involves the continuous celebration of both small and large milestones and deliveries with our global team.

About this role

Udemy is searching for a Staff Software Engineer who embodies our values of lead the way, embody ownership, act as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. We expect you to have expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance . We expect proficiency in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable designing and leading very complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters across teams.

As an organization, we ‘never stop learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and leveraging our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.

Within the Learn portfolio, our mission is to help learners advance their professional skills so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a staff engineer within the portfolio, you will be leading a team to help our learners onboard onto our platform, identify their learning goals, find the right learning content for them, and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations, skills guidance, and GenAI, to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.

What you'll be doing

Implementing product features using your expert skills in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance to meet our team's objectives in service of our users.

Applying exceptional  analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features in your team and with other teams in service of our users.

Leading the optimization of code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.

Designing, leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering very complex projects with quality and at scale across your pod and others.

Identifying, managing and executing solutions for complexity across teams.

Creating and leveraging dashboards to ensure quality of our experiences, our experiences are solving business problems, and our experiences are meeting our user’s needs.

What you’ll have

A desire to always be learning.

Technical expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance

Exceptional skills in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking.

Ability to break very complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.

Ability to work independently across domains and lead execution of a team on complex features across pods.

Ability to design solutions for very complex problems and lead your team to deliver those solutions while working with other teams effectively.