Backend Engineer, Consumer Engineering

Overview

Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning. Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact. Our mission is simple : to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead. Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home. Learn More About Us On Our Company Page.

Where we Work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About Your Skills

Craftsmanship : You take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and performant code. You understand the value of abstraction, testing, and naming, and you work to raise the bar for code quality within your team.

Curiosity : You never stop learning. You are proactive in exploring new tools, frameworks, and best practices. You seek feedback, iterate on your work, and share your learnings to lift others around you.

Execution : You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and scoping down problems to deliver incrementally. You take responsibility for seeing your work through—from understanding the problem to validating the solution in production.

Collaboration : You work closely with cross-functional team members like product managers, designers, and engineers across teams. You communicate clearly and are thoughtful about tradeoffs. You seek alignment early and adapt based on feedback.

Problem Solving : You approach problems analytically and with a growth mindset. You break down moderately complex challenges into solvable parts and lean into both technical and product questions to reach the right outcome.

About This Role

Udemy is searching for a Software engineer 2 who embodies our values of ownership, acting as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. We expect you to be a practitioner of Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka. We expect a working knowledge of ArgoCD, Github, Datadog, and Kubernetes. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing moderately complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.

As part of the Core Services within the Consumer, you will be working on creating services that power our frontend experiences.

What you'll be doing

Implementing product features using your practitioner skills in Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka

Using ArgoCD, Github, Datadog, and Kubernetes to ensure smooth deployment of product features.

Generating value across multiple teams and applying basic concepts and procedures under guidance.

Following general instructions on routine work from your manager, and being able to comprehend detailed instructions on new assignments or projects.

Optimizing code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.

What you’ll have

A desire to always be learning.

Practitioner in Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka

Working knowledge of ArgoCD, Github, Datadog, and Kubernetes

Ability to communicate effectively, work with peers, and come up with creative solutions.

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.

Hiring Compensation Range

$720,000—$900,000 MXN

Why work here?

You’ll grow here.

Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.

We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work.

We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You’ll Build With Others.

We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You’ll see your impact.

What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.

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