Software Engineer

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.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in our Dublin office.

About the Role:

Engineers in the Payments team are dedicated to implement strategic billing and payment operations to support hundreds of transactions per minute globally. Our system supports hundreds of different payment methods globally, state of the art integration capabilities with top payment vendors (Stripe, PayPal, Adyen), full-stack responsible for all the purchase flow, scaled to payout thousands of instructors monthly, and always refactored to lead the way. The team plays a mission critical role in Udemy to ensure all the monetization capabilities are highly resilient and always provide the high quality experience.

About your skills

• Continuous Learning – A strong desire to keep learning and growing, especially in technical competencies and organizational knowledge.
• Analytical Problem Solving – The ability to break down moderately complex problems and find effective solutions using cross-functional communication and systems thinking.
• Team-Oriented Mindset – Valuing collaboration, mutual recognition of accomplishments, and fostering a culture of humility and collective pride.
• Adaptability in Technology – Comfort in using various technologies while maintaining services and optimizing code and processes.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• You will be working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, which requires collaboration with product managers, designers and engineers to identify opportunities and implement solutions.

• You will be actively involved in every part of the software development cycle, such as designing, coding, reviewing, and test writing.

• You will relentlessly refactor existing systems to make them more robust, maintainable, and scalable.

• You will be using best software development practices and processes, and willing to spread this knowledge/experience to the team.

• You’ll be contributing to a team culture that values openness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation

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We're excited about you because you:

• Have BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline.

• Have 2+ years of professional software development experience.

• Are team-oriented, friendly, reliable, humble, receptive to feedback, and gain satisfaction from teamwork.

• Are a great learner, and always seek for improvement points.

• Have a deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design abilities including object-oriented design patterns.

• Are self-driven, own your services by all dimensions and intrinsically have a desire to get things done

• Have experience in developing web applications.
   

Nice to have:

• Experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Kotlin

• Have basic understanding about software design of large-scale, caching, resiliency, databases, service-oriented architecture, object-oriented design and distributed programming. 

• Experience with scalable data processing techniques such as Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, Celery

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases

• Testing methods and practices.

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 Ireland:

• 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. 26 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
• Retirement: 7% employer matching Defined Contribution Master Trust
• Holidays: 25 paid holidays throughout the year plus bank holidays

About our Dublin location 

Dublin is where our Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) headquarters is located, which means it plays a major role in our mission of sharing knowledge and unlocking potential for learners, instructors, and businesses globally. We have a fantastic central Dublin location with a brand new building, purpose-built for us. We’ve invested a lot here and have seen huge growth in the EMEA market – which is why we see Dublin as a key location for the future of Udemy. 

We have also been officially certified as a Great Place to Work in Ireland, recognizing our high-trust, high-performance workplace culture. With so many diverse perspectives, languages, and ethnicities coming together here, it’s no surprise that our Dublin office has been thriving. 

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