Senior Staff Software Engineer, Instructor Content Opportunities

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

• Strategic Thinking: You possess a strategic mindset, envisioning the long-term direction of projects and initiatives and making informed decisions that align with organizational goals and drive sustainable growth and innovation.
• 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.
• Leadership and Mentorship Abilities: You have a track record of inspiring and empowering team members, providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
• 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 Instructor Content Opportunities (ICO) team at Udemy aims to empower instructors by identifying and capitalizing on content opportunities that fill gaps in Udemy Business (UB) and Udemy’s broader catalog. We focus on driving revenue growth with strategic insights guided by key performance indicators, improving instructor engagement and customer satisfaction. The ICO team ensures that Udemy’s content catalog remains competitive and relevant by systematically addressing content supply gaps and supporting instructors with actionable insights.

As a Senior Staff Engineer on Udemy’s Instructor Content Opportunities (ICO) team, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining platforms that empower instructors to identify and capitalize on high-impact content opportunities. This position involves working across the stack, from backend services to frontend interfaces, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven tools and insights. Your work will directly contribute to Udemy's ability to fill content gaps, improve instructor engagement, and enhance the overall learner experience.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, developing, and maintaining applications that empower instructors to create high-quality content addressing critical supply gaps.
• Building new frontend pages and components that deliver engaging, real-time, data-driven experiences, guiding instructors in content creation.
• Implementing scalable backend services and APIs, focusing on ensuring seamless front-end integration via GraphQL, supporting real-time content discovery tools and instructor-facing interfaces.
• Building intuitive and engaging frontend experiences based on real-time insights and demand trends to guide instructors in content creation.
• Collaborating closely with product, design, and data teams to ensure a smooth, integrated user experience for instructors, aligning content development with business objectives.
• Developing and optimizing tools for content gap discovery and content curation, improving the relevance and quality of Udemy’s catalog.
• Enhancing and automating the gathering and analysis of organizational content needs, improving transparency, and aligning content development strategies with business goals.
• Leading complex technical projects from design through implementation, ensuring scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Driving UI/UX best practices and ensuring the development of responsive, accessible, and maintainable front-end code.
• Growing a team of engineers focused on building intuitive, maintainable, and powerful experiences.
• Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality, testing, security, and performance.
• Incorporating experiment-driven development to improve the overall customer journey continuously.
• Owning the architectural vision for both frontend and backend systems, with a focus on ensuring seamless interaction between the two and delivering high-performance experiences.
• Participating in agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, sprint-end demos, and retrospectives) to drive product innovation and collaboration across teams.

What you’ll have

• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of full-time engineering experience
• Expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, knowledge of React (React Hooks, Functional Components), and experience building modern front-end applications.
• Strong experience in frontend architecture and a proven ability to optimize for performance and scalability.
• Understanding backend technologies (Kotlin, Python) and experience designing scalable, secure, and performant APIs (REST/GraphQL).
• Familiarity with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for service communication and integration.
• Understanding of data-driven product development, with experience leveraging analytics and real-time data to guide product decisions.
• Experience working with medium-sized agile development teams
• Lead large efforts involving multiple stakeholders
• Well organized, disciplined, and able to manage time and priorities effectively
• A track record of cross-functional collaboration, particularly with product, design, and data teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• A passion for building solutions that empower instructors and enhance the learning experience on a global scale.

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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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:

• Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage

• 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

• 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

• Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development

• 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)

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