Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

Job Overview:

Coursera is bootstrapping a new development center in India. This is an unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission critical charter but also play a significant role in shaping the culture for the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products. 

As an engineer on the Enterprise team at Coursera, you will play a key role in designing and building Tier-1 applications that power critical online purchase flows within Coursera's enterprise contract product. This includes everything from discovery and checkout, to payments, taxes, and invoicing.
You will have the opportunity to tackle complex, full-stack technical challenges while influencing the future direction of our product roadmap. In this role, you’ll work closely with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, solution architects, and talented engineers, collaborating to deliver high-impact features and contribute to revenue-critical services that are central to Coursera's growth.
We’re looking for an engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment, with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for building scalable, high-performance solutions

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable & robust frontend applications
• Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
• Write and review technical documentation for the components owned by your team
• Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in Java, Scale or similar languages) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
• Debug and fix production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure adherence to the service level agreements (SLAs)
• Collaborate and mentor team members, and contribute to teams' success improving processes

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in a relevant frontend software engineering role
• Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience in at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS,  etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
• Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests
• Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
• 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

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Candidates with prior experience in start-up environments are preferred, specifically those who have been part of a bootstrapping team, small start-up team, or expansion team.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products or services.
• Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision.

If this opportunity interests you, you might like this course on Coursera:

• Google Cloud Engineering Professional Certificate
• Front-End Web Development with React
• HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers

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