Udemy
Staff Software Engineer
🇺🇸 Austin, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ October 27th, 2025
GraphQL
TypeScript
Edtech.com's Summary
Udemy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of complex features using technologies like ReactJS, Typescript, and GraphQL. The role requires driving multi-team projects, optimizing code and processes, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions that improve user experiences and meet business goals.
Highlights
- Lead technical architecture and mentor engineering teams to uphold code quality and performance standards.
- Apply systems thinking to solve complex, ambiguous problems with scalable solutions spanning multiple teams.
- Drive large, multi-team initiatives from design through delivery, managing prioritization and trade-offs.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to align on goals.
- Design and implement product features using ReactJS, Typescript, GraphQL, CSS, MobX or similar, NextJS or similar frameworks, Webpack, and NPM.
- Use DataDog or similar tools for monitoring and measuring web performance and accessibility best practices.
- Analyze and optimize code and workflows to support team objectives and business outcomes.
- Break down very complex projects into clear deliverables and lead execution across teams.
- Possess strong analytical problem-solving skills and proficiency in cross-functional communication and systems thinking.
- Work within the Conversion engineering team focused on top-of-funnel experiences converting visitors into lifelong learners.
Staff Software Engineer Full Description
Staff Software Engineer
Austin, TX
Staff Software Engineer (IC4)
Job Description:
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.
At Udemy, the Conversion engineering team is responsible for the top-of-funnel experiences that turn curious visitors into lifelong learners. We design and build scalable, experimentation-friendly systems that help users seamlessly move from exploration to purchase. Our work is highly impactful—balancing technical excellence with measurable business outcomes—while giving engineers the opportunity to shape how millions of learners around the world first experience Udemy.
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.
Posting Date: September 17, 2025
Application window: September 17, 2025 - Oct 1, 2025
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