Senior Front End Software Engineer - Home

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 175 million registered learners as of March 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading universities and industry leaders to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

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. As a remote-first company, our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates.

Group Description

The Engagement Group within the Product Experience organization is dedicated to motivating learners and helping them achieve their learning goals. We design features that inspire continued learning and support goal-setting to drive meaningful progress.

As a highly cross-functional team, we collaborate closely with marketing, data science, recommendation, and discovery teams to create impactful experiences. Our approach is data-driven, leveraging experimentation and hypothesis testing to refine and optimize learner engagement.

Team Description

The Home Team is at the heart of our logged-in experience, guiding learners through discovery and engagement. We tailor experiences based on learner needs—whether they are exploring our catalog for the first time, working toward their first professional certificate, or developing a new skill. We collaborate closely with discovery, learning experience, and enterprise teams to provide a seamless landing experience.

Job Overview:

Coursera is an engineering-first company. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community. We are made up of teams ranging from Development Infrastructure, Growth, Learner/Consumer Experience, Content Platform, and SDET Engineering. Every day, Engineering teams collaborate with cross-functional partners, including other engineers, data scientists, and product managers. You must be comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day!)

Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable & robust frontend applications

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

Work with architects and engineers to recommend, develop and review technical designs.

Mentor and guide fellow remote-first engineers to help them improve their technical ability and become more effective software engineers.

Develop and deploy your high-quality code (in JavaScript and React or similar frameworks) following industry best practices and track key service level indicators (SLIs)

Demonstrate a product-first mindset, driving innovation through collaboration with product and design teams.

Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing.

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:

5+ years of experience working in a relevant frontend software engineering role

Proficiency in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience with at least one modern UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications

Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs, writing unit, integration and e2e tests

Fervent belief in engineering quality and building technical leverage for others

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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 this course on Coursera:

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Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

From $135,000 to 178,000

US Zone 3

From $127,000 to $168,000

The ranges listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Salary is just one component of Coursera’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program as well as equity in the form of RSU’s.

A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity.

Current Zone Locations:

Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro

Zone 2 - CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (other than NYC), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (other than Seattle)

Zone 3 - all other US locations

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