Staff Software Developer - BE, Payments
Job Overview:
As a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team, you'll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at startup speed. You will take significant technical ownership for Coursera's Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout & payment experience for consumers. This role will involve both at-scale product innovation and new initiatives in the zero-to-one phase, directly contributing to Coursera's top-line growth and helping bring high-quality, affordable education to millions of learners across the globe. You'll contribute to service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), and Kafka within a microservices.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructure for the payments platform
Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing for payment solutions
Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand the real-time health of your payment products
Collaborate with cross-functional product, design, engineering, and services teams to ensure a thorough and thoughtful end-to-end implementation journey for payment features
Contribute to the conceptualization of new payment solutions with a problem-first, data-driven, and test & iterate approach, ensuring a platform and long-term view
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
Strong commitment to Coursera's mission of transforming lives through learning
Preferred Qualifications:
You have expertise in managing checkout & payments, including experience with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay)
You are familiar with mobile payments through Google Play Billing and Apple In-App Purchases
You understand payment industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, PSD2, 3DS 2.0)
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
Compensation:
Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between CAD 158,400 - 198,000 for all Canada candidates. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.
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Staff Software Developer - BE, Payments
Job Overview:
As a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team, you'll have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at startup speed. You will take significant technical ownership for Coursera's Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout & payment experience for consumers. This role will involve both at-scale product innovation and new initiatives in the zero-to-one phase, directly contributing to Coursera's top-line growth and helping bring high-quality, affordable education to millions of learners across the globe. You'll contribute to service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. Our backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), and Kafka within a microservices.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructure for the payments platform
Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing for payment solutions
Set up monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand the real-time health of your payment products
Collaborate with cross-functional product, design, engineering, and services teams to ensure a thorough and thoughtful end-to-end implementation journey for payment features
Contribute to the conceptualization of new payment solutions with a problem-first, data-driven, and test & iterate approach, ensuring a platform and long-term view
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)
Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
Strong commitment to Coursera's mission of transforming lives through learning
Preferred Qualifications:
You have expertise in managing checkout & payments, including experience with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay)
You are familiar with mobile payments through Google Play Billing and Apple In-App Purchases
You understand payment industry standards and regulations (e.g., PCI DSS, PSD2, 3DS 2.0)
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
Compensation:
Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between CAD 158,400 - 198,000 for all Canada candidates. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.