Senior Staff Software Engineer - Learning Content Experience

Coursera is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, aiming to provide universal access to world-class learning. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional leaders to shape the content experience and influence technical decisions, ensuring the delivery of innovative educational solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and data teams to inform a roadmap that balances long-term and short-term priorities, based on both big-picture perspective as well as data-informed learnings
• Collaborate with tech leads to identify and understand key architectural problems in the Learning Content Experience (LCE) domain
• Develop an architecture that efficiently addresses business challenges such as emergent complexity, leveraging foundational knowledge of design patterns and practical experience
• Promote sustainable architectural solutions by establishing and advocating for core principles, documented through decision records on API design, data storage strategies, and other key choices
• Apply industry best practices and system design expertise to guide local design decisions through collaboration and reviews with engineers
• Mentor and guide fellow engineers to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective product software engineers
• Initiate and lead high-leverage projects to raise the quality bar for how we work and what we deliver (e.g. by improving developer productivity, and/or the quality, performance, availability, and resiliency of our systems and teams)

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience working in a relevant product software engineering role
• 3+ years of experience iteratively driving architecture decisions in a single domain, evaluating success, and adapting these choices to changing product and business needs
• Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant full-stack applications, microservices, and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g. Java, MySQL, NoSQL, Kafka or equivalent)
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full SDLC, including technical design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, documentation, and operations
• Able to communicate effectively at multiple levels of abstraction to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in writing
• A strong sense of ownership and conscientiousness, with a strong desire to learn about products, people, and technology; proactive and action-oriented
• Strong empathy for both engineers and cross-functional partners, to enable the right balance of inquisitive information-gathering and timely decision-making in order to identify problems, overcome ambiguity, and align others on a solution
• Experience in hybrid teams supporting both external user-facing web products and internal platforms to enable other teams
• Expertise in technologies like ReactJS, GraphQL/DGS, DynamoDB, and Redis for designing scalable and high-performance applications end-to-end
• Experience with generative AI tools and supporting processes and systems; proficient in identifying opportunities enabled by emerging technologies while managing production needs for quality and scalability
• Strong track record of leadership and mentorship, preferably in a remote environment
• Experience with teams with diverse identities and working styles, tailoring approaches to bring out the best contributions from each individual teammate