Backend Engineer

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İstanbul, Şişli, İstanbul
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Mid level
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Udemy is a learning company that empowers organizations and individuals with flexible and effective skill development.
The Role
As a Backend Engineer at Udemy, you will support Python services, enhance developer experience, fix bugs, apply security patches, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on projects focusing on Python and Django.
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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.

 

Hybrid work

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. This role will be based in Türkiye.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub - Ankara or Istanbul. Learn more about us on our company page.

About you 

You are a motivated, meticulous Engineer with a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills. You are organized and proactive and take the initiative to prioritize your own work and projects effectively.

You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About this role

Udemy is searching for a Backend Engineer who embodies our values of authenticity, continuous learning, experimentation, being results-oriented, and being individually humble, yet collectively proud. We expect you to be an experienced practitioner of Python and Django. We expect you to be a continuous advocate and agent of DevOps principals - CI/CD pipelines, automation and infrastructure as code

We expect proficiency in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable designing and leading complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters across teams.

As an organization, we are ‘always learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates, and leveraging our platforms for learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions, and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.

What you'll be doing: 

Your primary role will be supporting the Udemy Python Services and the associated ecosystems. Udemy has Python applications using the Django framework with React frontends. 

In this role you will work with our developers to improve the Developer Experience, speed up testing and CI/CD flows as well as participate in code reviews, and work closely with many dev teams as they interact with the large and complex python code base. You’ll also be responsible for fixing critical bugs, applying essential security patches and upgrades. You will collaborate closely with sister teams in Platform Services, Production Engineering and Data Stores Infrastructure.

What you’ll have:

  • 3+ Years of Experience as a backend developer 

  • 3+ Years of Experience with Python on a large scale

  • 3+ Years of Experience with Django Framework

  • Experience with relational databases/SQL

  • Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable backend architectures

  • Hands-on experience with cloud services

  • Ability to design and optimise unit/integration tests

  • Practitioner in DataDog or similar monitoring tools 

  • CI/CD Tooling (Github Actions preferred, Jenkins or TeamCity acceptable)

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

Preferred Experience

  • Celery

  • Redis

  • Memcached

  • Docker/Kubernetes

  • Application performance management (we use DataDog APM)

  • Node.js 

 

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 start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits and Ireland Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

Top Skills

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Datadog
Django
Docker
Github Actions
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Memcached
Node.js
Python
Redis
SQL
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

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 77 million learners and 17,000 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.

Why Work With Us

As a learning company, we have a rich culture of curiosity. We offer employees free access to every course on the platform, as well as a $1,500 yearly stipend that can be used for educational opportunities, conferences, books, and more. We also host guest speakers and have a comprehensive and internal training curriculum. Become a lifelong learner!

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