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Software Engineer II, Backend

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Mid level
As a Backend Engineer, you'll innovate and productize with significant technical ownership, focusing on service architecture, API development, and data modeling in a microservices environment.
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We’re a globally distributed team and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.

Job Overview:

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at start-up speed. In this role, you’ll take up significant technical ownership for Coursera in these areas: service architecture, product API development, data modeling, and more. Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), Kafka, and more within a microservices architecture. 

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

Qualifications:

  • 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

Compensation:

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

Zone 1: This role is not available in Zone 1

Zone 2: $137,600 to $172,00

Zone 3: This role is not available in Zone 3

Zone 4: This role is not available in Zone 4

At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.

US Pay Zones:

  • US-Z1: SF Bay Area
  • US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
  • US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
  • US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

  • Object Oriented Java Programming: Data Structures and Beyond Specialization
  • Object Oriented Programming in Java Specialization
  • Introduction to Programming with Python and Java Specialization
  • Functional Programming in Scala Specialization

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 [email protected]. Learn more in our CCPA Applicant Notice and GDPR Recruitment Notice.

Top Skills

DynamoDB
GraphQL
Grpc
Java
Kafka
MySQL

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