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Software Engineer II, Backend

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India
Mid level
India
Mid level
As a Software Engineer II, Backend at Coursera, you'll design scalable systems, develop robust APIs, debug production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on enterprise integration projects.
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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. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 191 million registered learners as of September 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 375 leading universities and industry partners to offer a broad catalogue of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

We’re a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you’re ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.

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 center, 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. 

As an engineer on the C4B Integrations team, you will be responsible for designing and building scalable systems and tools that enable Coursera’s enterprise administrators to manage and monitor large-scale learning programs. The team focuses on two key experiences: the Enterprise Admin flow (used by admins to manage users, programs, and analytics) and the Learner Experience flow (used by employees and learners within organizations to access content through their company’s program).

You’ll work on core features such as user and role management, contract setup and tracking, admin-led communications, skills planning tools, and detailed reporting dashboards. The team also owns integrations and APIs that connect Coursera to external LMS/LXP systems and helps streamline enterprise onboarding and ongoing support.

This role involves close collaboration with product managers, designers, QA, and cross-functional engineering teams including data, infrastructure, and SRE. You’ll help reduce operational overhead by building internal tools for Customer Success and Implementation teams, and play a key role in improving platform reliability, real-time analytics, and admin support ticket resolution.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable & robust APIs and Systems
  • 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
  • Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in Java, Scala or similar languages) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)
  • 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

Basic Qualifications:

  • 3-6 years of experience working in a relevant backend software engineering role
  • Proficient in implementing APIs and writing automated tests
  • Expertise in using managed cloud services, streaming technologies and handling large data sets
  • Prior experience in developing new features and debugging complex issues with minimal supervision
  • Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others
  • Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis

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:

  • Object Oriented Java Programming: Data Structures and Beyond Specialization 

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Coursera 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 [email protected].
 
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Top Skills

APIs
Cloud Services
Java
Scala
Streaming Technologies

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