Software Engineer II, Backend

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Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025 . Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera's platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns. At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you. Job Overview: As a Backend Developer, 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

Basic 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

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

Compensation: US Zone 1 This role is not available in Zone 1 US Zone 2 This role is not available in Zone 2 US Zone 3 $110,000 - $137,500 USD The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change. Salary is just one component of Coursera's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU's. A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity. Current Zone Locations: Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro Zone 2 - California (outside of SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Washington DC, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, NY/NJ (other than NYC), Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington (other than Seattle) Zone 3 - Alaska,Arizona,Delaware,Florida,Hawaii,Idaho,Indiana,Iowa,Kansas,Kentucky,Maine,Michigan,Minnesota,Missouri,Montana,Nevada,New Hampshire,New Jersey,North Carolina,Ohio,Oklahoma,Pennsylvania,South Carolina,Tennessee,Utah,Vermont,Wisconsin

Coursera is anEqual Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.

For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here. For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.

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