Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Analytics

India
Permanent
Full-time

16 days ago

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 establishing a new development center in India, with a focus on building a world-class platform team. This is a unique opportunity to join the founding team, where you will not only own a mission-critical charter but also help shape the culture and technical direction of the location.We're looking for full-stack engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the challenge of building impactful 0-to-1 products.As an engineer on the Enterprise Analytics team, you will design and build data-driven features that empower our enterprise administrators to understand and maximize the impact of Coursera's learning products. You will work on transforming complex datasets into clear, actionable insights-enabling admins to track program performance, monitor learner engagement, measure skill development, and evaluate ROI on learning initiatives.You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to solve challenging technical problems, shape the product roadmap, and create intuitive analytics experiences that drive data-informed decisions. Your work will directly influence how enterprises perceive and leverage Coursera to improve learning outcomes and business success.Responsibilities:

Design, build, and scale robust APIs and systems to support mission-critical integrations.
Measure and evaluate the impact of your work, analyze results, and run A/B tests to drive data-informed product improvements.
Create and maintain clear, high-quality technical documentation for components owned by your team.
Develop and deploy high-quality code (Java, Scala, or similar) following industry best practices, and track key service-level indicators (SLIs).
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, lead blameless retrospectives, and participate in the on-call rotation to uphold service-level agreements (SLAs).
Mentor and collaborate with teammates, contributing to process improvements and the overall success of the team.

Basic Qualifications:

7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant contributions across both frontend and backend systems.
Proficient in designing and implementing APIs and building intuitive, performant user interfaces using modern frameworks such as React (or similar).
Skilled in writing automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure code reliability and maintainability.
Expertise in working with managed cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure), streaming technologies, and handling large datasets.
Experience developing new features end-to-end-from UX and UI design considerations to backend services and database integration.
Proven ability to debug and resolve complex issues across the stack with minimal supervision.
Strong advocate for engineering excellence, building reusable components and technical leverage for the wider team.
Data-driven mindset, motivated by delivering measurable outcomes and learning from experiments, metrics, and user feedback.

Preferred Qualifications:

Founding engineers or candidates with prior experience in start-up environments are preferred, specifically those who have been part of a bootstrapping team, small start-up team, or expansion team.
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.

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:#LI-SP2Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.For California Candidates, please review our here.For our Global Candidates, please review our here.

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