Senior Software Engineer

at Udemy

Ankara, Turkey

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.

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through the power of learning. We’re a leading global learning company and one of the world’s largest education platforms, with more than 69 million learners. Our goal is to provide flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals.

Talented people are everywhere, and the right opportunity can be hard to come by. That’s why we’re focused on revolutionizing learning, using our skills and expertise to help others develop theirs and reach their full potential. Individually, we bring our unique perspective to reimagine the way we share knowledge. Together, we can transform lives by making learning more accessible for our learners, our instructors, and businesses around the world.

Hybrid work

This hybrid position requires three days per week in the office at the nearest hub.

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 your Skills

Decision Making: Ability to independently analyze medium-scale, ambiguous problems and design end-to-end solutions using strong computer science fundamentals. Makes pragmatic trade-offs between delivery speed, system quality, and long-term maintainability.
Technical Expertise: Knowledge of software design and architecture principles to build scalable and maintainable systems.
Curiosity & Continuous Learning: A proactive approach to learning new technologies and improving skills in a dynamic environment.
Collaboration & Communication: Effective communication skills to articulate technical concepts and collaborate with team members on software design and implementation.
Problem-Solving: Balances solid system design with forward progress. Avoids over-engineering while ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with the product roadmap. Anticipates maintenance impact and manages technical debt intentionally.
Ownership & Execution: Demonstrates strong ownership by leading connected projects across multiple sprints. Breaks down work, estimates deliverables with imperfect information, identifies risks early, and proactively unblocks progress.

About this role As a Senior Software Engineer in the Adaptive Skills Mastery Team at Udemy, you will be working on the platforms that manage all aspects of creation & management of the Courses and Role Plays. You will work closely with the product, design and data teams to develop platforms for instructor content creation.

What you'll be doing:

Working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, which requires collaboration with product managers, designers and engineers to identify opportunities and implement solutions.
Getting involved in every part of the software development cycle, such as designing, coding, reviewing, and test writing by different weights from time to time.
Using best software development practices and processes, and willing to spread this knowledge/experience to the team.
Contributing to a team culture that values openness, quality, robustness, and scalability while fostering innovation.

What you’ll have

BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline.
4+ years of professional software development experience.
Are team-oriented, friendly, reliable, humble, receptive to feedback, and gain satisfaction from teamwork, and are a great learner always seeking improvement points.
Proven experience designing and delivering medium-scale systems or features end-to-end in a production environment.
Have a deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design abilities including object-oriented design patterns.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture, and coordinate work across multiple engineers.
Are self-driven, own your services by all dimensions and intrinsically have a desire to get things done.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications and distributed systems.

Nice to have:

Experience over at least one programming language (Python, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript).
Experience with React, Next.js, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf, event-driven systems like Kafka.
Have basic understanding about software design of large-scale, caching, resiliency, databases, service-oriented architecture, object-oriented design and distributed programming.

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above 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!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
Learning is what we do—inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. Learn more about our certification here and find out what it's like to work at Udemy on our blog.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organisations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

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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