Senior Front End Software Engineer - Home

About the position

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. You must be comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable & robust frontend applications
• Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing
• Write and review technical documentation for the components owned by your team
• Work with architects and engineers to recommend, develop and review technical designs
• Mentor and guide fellow remote-first engineers to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective software engineers
• Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in JavaScript and React or similar frameworks) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
• Demonstrate a product-first mindset, driving innovation through collaboration with product and design teams
• Debug and fix production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure adherence to the service level agreements (SLAs)
• Collaborate and mentor team members, and contribute to teams' success improving processes

Requirements

• 5+ 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
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 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
• Proven track record of delivering results in a resource-constrained environment with limited guidance and supervision

Benefits

• Bonus program
• Equity in the form of RSUs