Senior Backend Engineer – Monetization Platform

Coursera; United States; Remote; USD 97,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Coursera is seeking a Senior Software Developer on the Monetization team to take ownership of service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. You will design and iterate at startup speed, collaborating with product and engineering to shape technical decisions and business outcomes.

This role emphasizes backend development with Java, microservices, and data-driven decision making. Join a globally distributed team working from anywhere, with an onboarding experience tailored for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing highly scalable microservices and data storage layers.
• Strong API design, system and data architecture understanding.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend systems and infrastructures for Coursera’s services.
• Measure results with data and drive product changes through A/B testing.
• Set up monitoring and testing of APIs and services for real-time health and performance.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to shape requirements and tradeoffs.
• Drive data-informed decisions by analyzing metrics and experiment results.

Skills

Java

Microservices architecture

API design

Data modeling

MySQL

Kafka

Scala

Cassandra

Solr

Play framework

gRPC

GraphQL

Agile development

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

Job description

Coursera is seeking a Senior Software Developer on the Monetization team to take ownership of service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. You will design and iterate at startup speed, collaborating with product and engineering to shape technical decisions and business outcomes.

This role emphasizes backend development with Java, microservices, and data-driven decision making. Join a globally distributed team working from anywhere, with an onboarding experience tailored for