Job Description
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 include designing and implementing scalable systems and infrastructures, measuring work thoroughly, analyzing results, and generating hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing. The engineer will set up monitoring and testing of APIs and services to better understand real time health of products.
About Coursera
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning.