Senior Engineering Manager

Where we Work Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco with additional U S offices in Denver and Austin and international hubs in Australia India Ireland Mexico and Turkiye This is an in-office position requiring three days a week in the office Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays About you You re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact You want to lead the way in innovation exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product Design and Engineering About this role As the senior engineering manager on the Globalisation team you will be leading a team of engineers in the globalisation of the product at Udemy As we continue to focus on skills and learning outcomes it is critical to our success that we connect them to assessments and digital credentials that are trustworthy transferable between organizations and motivating for the learners You will help build a team that will lay down the service-oriented foundation for Globalization at Udemy and collaborate with other teams on connecting instructors learners and organizations on their skill development journey We are seeking an analytical and dynamic engineering leader who will collaborate closely with leadership across multiple disciplines to set the vision guide technical direction and continue to grow the team What you ll be doing Manage and develop a team of software engineers to design and build scalable and flexible service-oriented solutions Work closely with cross-functional partners to understand refine and translate requirements to scalable solutions Provide hands-on technical guidance and career mentorship for team members Maintain high-quality standards effective team processes and best practices in engineering Communicate and align plans as well as dependencies to broader Engineering teams Grow and nourish a culture that values openness inclusiveness respect quality robustness scalability and humility while fostering innovation We re excited about you because you will have B S degree or higher in computer science engineering or related technical fields 12 years of professional software development experience including proven seniority in your current company 6 years of prior people management experience including performance reviews coaching mentoring and sprint planning Experience working closely with Global Engineering teams Experience working with the Internationalisation of products A great track record of hiring top talent mentoring and growing talent Strong technical excellence plus experience with owning and shipping substantial product features that support consumer-scale web applications like Udemy com Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences Parallel execution skills be able to work with multiple projects and multiple stakeholders at the same time Demonstrated experience driving the architecture engineering and software design of large-scale multi-tiered distributed software applications databases tools systems and services using microservice architecture object-oriented design and distributed programming Ability to create a testing strategy and documentation Mastery over at least one programming language Python Kotlin Java Experience with AWS Kubernetes and Docker Experience with web frameworks e g Django Spring Boot ORMs e g Hibernate RDBMS e g MySQL and No-SQL e g DynamoDB Experience building and consuming internal external APIs e g GraphQL REST gRPC Decent knowledge of concurrency resiliency and security Nice to haves Experience working with data processing frameworks and tools such as Spark Hadoop Hive Kafka etc Experience with frontend technologies such as React NextJS and TypeScript Application deadline 24th October 2025