Coursera · 3 hours ago
Software Engineer II, Backend
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expCoursera is a leading online learning platform founded by Stanford professors, aiming to make world-class education accessible. The Backend Engineer role involves significant technical ownership in areas such as service architecture, product API development, and data modeling, contributing to innovative online learning solutions.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures
Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
Setup monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand real time health of your products
Qualification
Required
3+ 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, Play/Scala, 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
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (15)
2024 (14)
2023 (39)
2022 (42)
2021 (23)
2020 (49)
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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