Staff Software Developer - Front End

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 175 million registered learners as of March 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading universities and industry leaders 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:

Coursera is an engineering-first company. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community. We are made up of teams ranging from Development Infrastructure, Growth, Learner/Consumer Experience, Content Platform, and SDET Engineering. Every day, Engineering teams collaborate with cross-functional partners, including other engineers, data scientists, and product managers. We employ continuous delivery to deploy multiple times a day and move quickly as an organization

The Opportunity & The Team

As a Frontend Staff Engineer on the Growth Acquisition team, you'll be at the forefront of revolutionizing online learning by building the future of AI-powered, personalized education. Our team helps prospective learners take meaningful steps towards commitment in a low-friction, value-adding manner, directly impacting the learning journeys of millions worldwide. We aim to be a seamless, delightful “front door” for Coursera, drawing learners in and helping them engage and commit.

This is a high-impact role within a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, data-driven decision-making, and working closely with learners to help them transform their lives. You will have the opportunity to:

• Be a Technical Leader: Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the growth of the entire team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Be a Pioneer: Work on cutting-edge technology, pushing the boundaries of what's possible with technology in education. You'll balance rapid industry evolution with building scalable and impactful learning systems for the long term.
• Drive Impact at Scale: Create systems and features used by millions of learners daily, directly influencing their educational journeys and helping them reach their full potential.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and guide frontend engineers, fostering their growth and development, and building a world-class team.
• Partner with engineering stakeholders to shape the team’s technical roadmap and strategy, including spotting code smells, identifying and addressing tech debt, and driving refactoring initiatives to improve code quality and maintainability
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture, scalability, and performance, ensuring our learning platform can grow to meet the needs of millions of learners.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and build experiences that scale.
• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of core service functionalities.
• Champion and implement best practices with a focus on safety, bias mitigation, ethical considerations, and a learner-centric approach
• Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working in a relevant frontend software engineering role
• Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience with at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
• Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests
• Proven track record of defining technical roadmaps for a full-stack team
• Experience with mentoring and upleveling teammates
• Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with contributing to product roadmaps
• Experience as a Tech Lead
• Experience with using AI tools (e.g., Cursor) to improve efficiency and productivity
• Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable AI-powered features

If this opportunity interests you, you might like this course on Coursera:

• Google Cloud Engineering Professional Certificate
• Front-End Web Development with React
• HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers

Compensation:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between $158,400 and $209,880. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits#PL-1

Coursera is an Equal 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.

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