Top Benefits
Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills
Free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
- Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
- Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
- Strong commitment to Coursera's mission of transforming lives through learning
- You have expertise in managing checkout & payments, including experience with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay)
- You are familiar with mobile payments through Google Play Billing and Apple In-App Purchases
- You understand payment industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, PSD2, 3DS 2.0)
What the job involves
- As a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team, you'll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at startup speed
- You will take significant technical ownership for Coursera's Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout & payment experience for consumers
- This role will involve both at-scale product innovation and new initiatives in the zero-to-one phase, directly contributing to Coursera's top-line growth and helping bring high-quality, affordable education to millions of learners across the globe
- You'll contribute to service architecture, product API development, and data modeling
- Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), and Kafka within a microservices
- Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructure for the payments platform
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing for payment solutions
- Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand the real-time health of your payment products
- Collaborate with cross-functional product, design, engineering, and services teams to ensure a thorough and thoughtful end-to-end implementation journey for payment features
- Contribute to the conceptualization of new payment solutions with a problem-first, data-driven, and test & iterate approach, ensuring a platform and long-term view
Benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
About Coursera
E-Learning Providers
1001-5000
Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 124 million registered learners as of March 31, 2023. Coursera partners with over 300 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp in February 2021.
Top Benefits
Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills
Free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
About the role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
- Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
- Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
- Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
- Strong commitment to Coursera's mission of transforming lives through learning
- You have expertise in managing checkout & payments, including experience with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay)
- You are familiar with mobile payments through Google Play Billing and Apple In-App Purchases
- You understand payment industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, PSD2, 3DS 2.0)
What the job involves
- As a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team, you'll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at startup speed
- You will take significant technical ownership for Coursera's Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout & payment experience for consumers
- This role will involve both at-scale product innovation and new initiatives in the zero-to-one phase, directly contributing to Coursera's top-line growth and helping bring high-quality, affordable education to millions of learners across the globe
- You'll contribute to service architecture, product API development, and data modeling
- Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), and Kafka within a microservices
- Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructure for the payments platform
- Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing for payment solutions
- Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand the real-time health of your payment products
- Collaborate with cross-functional product, design, engineering, and services teams to ensure a thorough and thoughtful end-to-end implementation journey for payment features
- Contribute to the conceptualization of new payment solutions with a problem-first, data-driven, and test & iterate approach, ensuring a platform and long-term view
Benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
About Coursera
E-Learning Providers
1001-5000
Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 124 million registered learners as of March 31, 2023. Coursera partners with over 300 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp in February 2021.