Coursera
Senior Front-End Developer, Visual Experience Platform
🇨🇦 Remote - CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $134K - $168K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ August 1st, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Coursera is hiring a Senior Front-End Developer, Visual Experience Platform. The role involves modernizing the Coursera platform's design, enhancing the learner journey with a consistent and high-quality visual experience, and collaborating with design, product, and business teams to implement scalable front-end solutions.
Highlights
- Modernize the Coursera platform to ensure a clean, consistent look and feel throughout the learner journey.
- Utilize AI-powered coding and design tools to accelerate development and innovation.
- Build and maintain large-scale design system components for quality and consistency.
- Upgrade legacy pages with improvements to accessibility, performance, and visual polish.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and business stakeholders to deliver optimal solutions.
- Guide other teams on design system usage and visual standards implementation.
- Require 5+ years of front-end engineering experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React or similar frameworks.
- Experience working with or building design systems, with a strong focus on web accessibility and performance.
- Preferred skills include AI-assisted development, rapid improvements to large front-end codebases, and strong communication with cross-functional teams.
- Competitive base salary for Canada candidates ranges from CAD 134,400 to 168,000, with eligibility for variable pay, equity, and benefits.
Senior Front-End Developer, Visual Experience Platform Full Description
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 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners 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:
Join us to modernize the look and feel of the entire Coursera learning journey. As part of our brand new Visual Experience Pod, you'll help transform our product into a premium, cohesive, and inspiring digital experience, boosting design and engineering speed through new tools and best practices.
Great design drives business results, and you’ll have a big say in how our platform looks and feels for millions. This is a unique chance to shape our future and lead major change as part of a high-impact new team.
Responsibilities:
- Modernize the entire Coursera platform, bringing a clean, consistent, and high-quality look and feel to every step of the learner journey
- Use and explore AI-powered coding and design tools to accelerate delivery and creativity
- Build and maintain large-scale design system components for consistency and quality
- Upgrade critical and legacy pages, improving accessibility, performance, and visual polish
- Collaborate closely with design, business, and product stakeholders to find the best solutions and adapt to changes
- Share knowledge and guide other teams in using the design system and visual standards
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of front-end engineering experience
- Strong with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React (or similar frameworks)
- Experience working with or building design systems
- Strong focus on web accessibility and performance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Loves innovating and is curious about AI-assisted development
- Skilled at jumping into large front-end codebases and driving rapid improvements
- Balances long-term design thinking with quick execution on urgent goals
- Communicates well and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Passionate about performance, accessibility, and visual details
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Generative AI for Software Development
- Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate
- Google Cloud Engineering Professional Certificate
- Front-End Web Development with React
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers
Compensation:
Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between CAD 134,400 to 168,000 for all Canada candidates. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.
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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For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.
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