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About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working in a software engineering role
- Experience designing highly-scalable and performant microservices and storage layers using languages and infrastructure such as Java, Play, Scala, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, or Kafka
- Experience working in fast-moving team environments with frequent deployments
- Background in using data and metrics to inform technical and product decisions
- Demonstrated history of building and launching products with understanding of API design, system architecture, and data architecture
Skills
- Software Engineering
- Technical Design
- Agile Product Development
- Java
- MySQL
- DynamoDB
- gRPC
- GraphQL
- Kafka
- Microservices architecture
- API design
- System architecture
- Data architecture
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $164,000 - $205,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Bonus and RSU equity programs
- Global perks designed to help you grow and thrive
About the Company
- Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress.
- Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI.
- AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater.
- Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts.
- By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.
- By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy.
- Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Coursera is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a welcoming and inclusive workplace.
- We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request at recruiting@coursera.org.