Senior Staff Software Engineer

  • India
  • Engineering
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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:

Coursera is bootstrapping a new development centre, with a focus on building a platform team in India. This is an unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission critical charter, but also play a significant role in shaping the culture for the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products. 

Workplace learning at scale (WLS) is critical to this mission because it allows us to extend our impact beyond individual learners to entire enterprises. By partnering with leading organizations around the world, we can help them adapt to rapidly changing industry demands, close skill gaps, and promote a culture of lifelong learning. Ultimately, this empowers employees to achieve their full potential, drives innovation, and contributes to the global knowledge economy. Our comprehensive and scalable learning solutions ensure that professionals worldwide have access to the education they need to succeed and thrive in their careers.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of the group’s domain and overall architecture, provide guidance on the evolution of the architecture over a 1 year horizon.
  • Identify gaps in either product strategy and technical roadmaps and drive prioritization for these.
  • Influencing the charter of multiple teams and influencing on key projects within the group. Lead and deliver projects that span multiple pods by leveraging technical expertise and/or organization effectiveness.
  • Informing business strategy by helping product, data, engineering leadership understand the impediments and capabilities of existing systems. Find opportunities for high leverage in key projects and influence group peers on roadmap prioritization
  • Influence engineering culture at group-level on balancing execution risks and expectation of quality. Responsible for managing proof of concepts and subsequent follow ups at the group level.
  • Provide guidance to the engineering organization through defining new architectural tenets.
  • Mentoring and offering technical guidance to tech leads, leading to a shared technical vision.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of experience working in a relevant backend software engineering role
  • Proven track record of conceptualizing and delivering on a long term technical strategy for broad business domains
  • Proficient in designing robust, scalable and extensible enterprise systems
  • Experience in identifying technical fragility in large and complex systems, and effectively leading organizational changes to plug these gaps
  • Experienced in working with cross functional peers across product, design, architecture and business to influence the technical direction of the org
  • Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
  • Track record of mentoring and growing team members and setting strong engineering culture on the team

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Proven track record of influencing with or without having a formal authority and effective roadmap advocacy
  • Experience working with technical and non-technical teams to deliver significant business impact 
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products or services.

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