Overview

ABOUT THE ROLE:
Engineers in Payments team are dedicated to implement strategic billing and payment operations to support hundreds of transactions per minute globally. Our system supports hundreds of different payment methods globally, state of the art integration capabilities with top payment vendors (Stripe, PayPal, Adyen), full-stack responsible from all the purchase flow, scaled to payout thousands of instructors monthly, and always refactored to lead the way. The team plays a mission critical role in Udemy to ensure all the monetization capabilities are highly resilient and always provide the high quality experience.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

    • As a senior member of the team, you will be working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, which requires collaboration with product managers, designers and engineers to identify opportunities and implement solutions.
    • You will be actively involving every parts of software development cycle, such as designing, coding, reviewing, and test writing.
    • You will relentlessly refactor existing systems to make them more robust, maintainable, and scalable.
    • You will be using best software development practices and processes, and willing to spread this knowledge/experience to the team.

We’re excited about you because you:

    • Have a university degree including the study of computer science fundamentals.
    • 4+ years of professional software development experience.
    • Have demonstrated experience driving the architecture, engineering and software design of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, databases, tools, systems, and services using service-oriented architecture, object-oriented design and distributed programming.
    • Have a deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
    • Are self-driven, own your services by all dimensions and intrinsically have a desire to get things done.
    • Are creative and not afraid to step outside of your comfort zone.
    • Are team-oriented, friendly, reliable, humble, receptive to feedback, and you gain satisfaction from helping others.
    • Have mastery over at least one programming language (e.g. .Net/C#, Python and/or Java)
    • Are well versed in HTTP and web application stack including modern front-end/back-end technologies.
    • Have deep knowledge of concurrency, resiliency, and caching.
    • Have proven experience with ORMs (e.g. Django) and RDBMS (e.g. MySQL) including development of complex SQL queries.
    • Building and consuming internal/external APIs (including, but not limited to REST).
    • Testing methods and practices.

Nice to have:

    • Python, Django
    • JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
    • Real-time messaging and NoSQL infrastructures: Redis, RabbitMQ
    • Scalable data processing techniques: Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, Celery
About Udemy
We believe anyone can build the life they imagine through online learning. Today, more than 50 million students around the world are advancing their careers and passions by exploring and mastering new skills on Udemy, and expert instructors are able to share their knowledge with the world. Through our global marketplace and our solutions for businesses and governments, we connect people everywhere with the skills they need for success in work and life. We’re a close-knit bunch that enjoys problem-solving and collaboration, and we share a serious belief in the power of learning and teaching to change lives. Udemy’s culture encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day.
Founded in 2010, Udemy is privately owned and headquartered in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood with offices in Denver (Colorado), Dublin (Ireland), Ankara (Turkey), Gurugram (India), and São Paulo (Brazil).