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Job Description

Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning.

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It's personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.

Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they're picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you're excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you'll feel right at home.

Learn More About Us On Our Company Page.

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 Trkiye. 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

Why work here

You'll grow here.

Learning is part of the job. You'll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.

We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You'll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You'll own your work.

We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don't need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You'll Build With Others.

We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You'll see your impact.

What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You've got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs

Bring your curiosity. We'll bring the platform and the support. Let's LEARN together.

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We understand that not everyone will match each of the qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you

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