About us
At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.
This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.
About you
You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.
About your Skills
- Adaptability and Learning Agility: You thrive in dynamic environments, quickly adapting to new technologies, methodologies, and challenges. Your eagerness to learn and ability to pivot effectively contribute to the team's success in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Team Collaboration: You excel in fostering collaboration within cross-functional teams, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise to achieve common goals and deliver successful outcomes.
- Cross-functional Partnership: You excel in managing stakeholder expectations, fostering positive relationships with internal teams, users, and other key stakeholders, and effectively communicating technical decisions, project progress, and milestones.
About this role
The Search Engineering team plays a crucial role in connecting learners with the best learning content to meet their unique needs. We create seamless user experiences that help unlock Udemy's vast and diverse learning content. Our team works in a data-driven environment, collaborating closely with Data Scientists building machine learning (ML) and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions within a microservice-based architecture. We are committed to continuous improvement through A/B experimentation, delivering smaller MVPs to optimize the learning experience for our users.
As a key member of this dynamic team, you’ll work alongside Product Managers, UX Designers, and Data Scientists to deliver intuitive and effective user interfaces that integrate with ML and LLM-enhanced search systems. While your primary focus will be on front-end development, you’ll also contribute to backend solutions, ensuring robust monitoring and observability for a seamless end-to-end user experience.
What you'll be doing
- Contribute to the end-to-end implementation of Udemy’s in-site search experience across multiple product lines, improving and/or introducing different learning content discovery methodologies.
- Implement new front-end experiences powered by back-end services over GraphQL.
- Establish robust monitoring, metrics, and observability practices to ensure an optimized and seamless user experience.
- Set and uphold best practices within the team, aligning with broader company standards and driving continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data Science teams to build solutions that address customer needs while achieving business goals.
- Incorporate an Experiment-Driven approach to development, using A/B testing and enhance the overall customer journey.
- Participate actively in daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, working cross-functionally to drive product innovation.
What you’ll have
- 4+ years of front-end engineering experience, with a preference for full-stack capabilities and experience.
- Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Advanced proficiency in React (including React Hooks and Functional Components) or comparable front-end frameworks.
- Experience designing scalable, secure, and performant APIs using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC.
- Willingness to learn and operate across the stack with Front End and Web Performance focuses
- Experience collaboration with medium-sized agile development teams, contributing to cross-functional projects.
- Proven ability to lead large initiatives, projects, coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
- Well organized, disciplined, and able to manage time and priorities effectively
We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!
Life at Udemy
We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:
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We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
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Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
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Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
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We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.
Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?
At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability.
Our Benefits Start With U
Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:
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Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
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Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
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Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
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Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
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Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities
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Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)
Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
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