Coursera · 1 month ago
Staff Software Developer, Backend, Payments
Canada, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
CAD$164K/yr - CAD$205K/yr
7+ years expCoursera is a platform founded to make world-class learning accessible to everyone. As a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team, you'll innovate and take ownership of Coursera's Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout and payment experience for consumers.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
7+ 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
Preferred
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)
Benefits
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Bonus and RSU equity programs
Global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are
Company
Coursera
Coursera is an online education platform that offers classes for students.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$458.9MKey Investors
Global Secure InvestNew Enterprise AssociatesSEEK
2021-03-31IPO
2021-01-01Series Unknown· $1M
2020-10-23Series F· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Alan Cardenas
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
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