Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Frontend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Coursera's India development center seeks a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to design and build Tier-1 applications for enterprise contract products. Responsibilities include designing scalable frontend applications, implementing responsive web designs, writing tests, deploying high-quality code (Java, Scale, or similar), debugging production issues, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a modern UI framework (e.g., ReactJS). The ideal candidate possesses a strong sense of ownership, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is data-driven. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a founding team and shape the culture of a new Coursera location.
Must have:
  • 5+ years frontend experience
  • Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Modern UI framework experience
  • Responsive web design skills
  • Experience building large-scale web apps
  • Testing experience (unit, integration, e2e)
  • Collaboration and mentoring skills
Good to have:
  • Start-up experience
  • Experience in a bootstrapping team
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
  • Delivering results in resource-constrained environments
Perks:
  • Flexible workspace choices
  • Virtual interviews and onboarding

Job Details

Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. 

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Job Overview:

Coursera is bootstrapping a new development center in India. This is an unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission critical charter but also play a significant role in shaping the culture for the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products. 

As an engineer on the Enterprise team at Coursera, you will play a key role in designing and building Tier-1 applications that power critical online purchase flows within Coursera's enterprise contract product. This includes everything from discovery and checkout, to payments, taxes, and invoicing.
You will have the opportunity to tackle complex, full-stack technical challenges while influencing the future direction of our product roadmap. In this role, you’ll work closely with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, solution architects, and talented engineers, collaborating to deliver high-impact features and contribute to revenue-critical services that are central to Coursera's growth.
We’re looking for an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment, with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for building scalable, high-performance solutions

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable & robust frontend applications
  • Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
  • Write and review technical documentation for the components owned by your team
  • Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in Java, Scale or similar languages) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
  • Debug and fix production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure adherence to the service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Collaborate and mentor team members, and contribute to teams' success improving processes

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience working in a relevant frontend software engineering role
  • Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience in at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS,  etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
  • Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests
  • Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
  • 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

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Candidates with prior experience in start-up environments are preferred, specifically those who have been part of a bootstrapping team, small start-up team, or expansion team.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products or services.
  • Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision.

If this opportunity interests you, you might like this course on Coursera:

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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
 
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.
 
For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.
For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.
 
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