Udemy
Staff Software Engineer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Austin, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $157K - $196K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ August 27th, 2025
GraphQL
TypeScript
Edtech.com's Summary
Udemy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex software projects within their AI-powered skills acceleration platform. The role involves implementing product features using ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, and other technologies, while driving cross-team collaboration and ensuring high standards in code quality, accessibility, and performance.
Highlights
- Lead design, development, and delivery of large-scale, multi-team software initiatives.
- Utilize expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX, NextJS, Webpack, NPM, and DataDog.
- Apply systems thinking to deconstruct complex problems and deliver scalable solutions.
- Champion accessibility best practices and web performance measurement.
- Drive collaboration between engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists.
- Mentor and set high standards for code quality and execution at scale.
- Break down ambiguous projects into actionable milestones and lead team execution.
- Required qualifications include strong analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and technical leadership abilities.
- Compensation range is $157,000 to $196,000 USD, including eligibility for equity.
- Support a customer-centric mission to help learners advance professional skills through personalized learning experiences.
Staff Software Engineer Full Description
Staff Software Engineer
Austin, TX
Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning.
Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.
Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.
Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home.
Where we Work
Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye.
This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
About your skills
- Technical Leadership: You bring deep technical expertise and a strong architectural mindset. You consistently make high-quality technical decisions, mentor others, and set the standard for code quality, performance, and accessibility.
- Systems Thinking: You understand how features and services connect across the platform. You deconstruct complex, ambiguous problems into clear, scalable solutions and anticipate downstream effects across teams and systems.
- Execution at Scale: You lead the design and delivery of large, multi-team initiatives. You guide others through prioritization, scoping, and trade-off discussions to ship high-quality experiences efficiently.
- Collaboration: You are a trusted partner to engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists. You facilitate alignment across stakeholders and bring clarity to complex problems through strong written and verbal communication.
- Ownership: You take responsibility for driving work forward and raising the bar. You proactively identify issues and opportunities, own solutions end-to-end, and hold a high bar for yourself and others.
- Continuous Learning: You model a growth mindset. You stay up-to-date on evolving frontend best practices and tooling, actively seek feedback, and share your learnings to help your team and peers grow.
About you
You are a motivated, meticulous Staff Software Engineer with a customer-focused, team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills, who aligns with our core values. You are organized, proactive, and take the initiative to prioritize your’s and the team’s projects effectively.
Fostering a workplace culture of 'individual humility and collectively proud', we look for team players. We value every voice and encourage mutual recognition of accomplishments. Your role involves the continuous celebration of both small and large milestones and deliveries with our global team.
About this role
Udemy is searching for a Staff Software Engineer who embodies our values of lead the way, embody ownership, act as one team, relentless focus, and never stop learning. We expect you to have expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance . We expect proficiency in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable designing and leading very complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters across teams.
As an organization, we ‘never stop learning’. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and leveraging our platforms for organizational learning. Your dedication to continual growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.
Within the Learn portfolio, our mission is to help learners advance their professional skills so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a staff engineer within the portfolio, you will be leading a team to help our learners onboard onto our platform, identify their learning goals, find the right learning content for them, and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations, skills guidance, and GenAI, to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.
What you'll be doing
- Implementing product features using your expert skills in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance to meet our team's objectives in service of our users.
- Applying exceptional analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features in your team and with other teams in service of our users.
- Leading the optimization of code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
- Designing, leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering very complex projects with quality and at scale across your pod and others.
- Identifying, managing and executing solutions for complexity across teams.
- Creating and leveraging dashboards to ensure quality of our experiences, our experiences are solving business problems, and our experiences are meeting our user’s needs.
What you’ll have
- A desire to always be learning.
- Technical expertise in ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX (or similar libraries), NextJS (or similar framework), Webpack, NPM, DataDog (or similar tools), accessibility best practices and measuring web performance
- Exceptional skills in analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking.
- Ability to break very complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.
- Ability to work independently across domains and lead execution of a team on complex features across pods.
- Ability to design solutions for very complex problems and lead your team to deliver those solutions while working with other teams effectively.
At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.
Hiring Compensation Range
$157,000—$196,000 USD
Why work here?
You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.
AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.
You’ll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.
You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.
You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?
Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.
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 Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US 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.
Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.
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. We understand that not everyone will match each of the 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!
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