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Software Engineer, II - Frontend at Coursera in Mountain View, CA
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Job Description
About Coursera
Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller to make world-class learning accessible to everyone, everywhere. Today, over 190 million learners and 375+ university and industry partners use our platform to gain skills in fields like AI, data science, technology, and business. As a Delaware public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp, we’re driven by the belief that learning can transform lives through learning.
Why Join Us
At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
We’re a globally distributed team and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.
Home Team Overview:
The Home Team is at the heart of our logged-in experience, directly influencing retention, engagement, and long term success by 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.
Join us to modernize the look and feel of the entire Coursera learning journey. you'll help transform our product into a premium, cohesive, and inspiring digital experience, boosting design and engineering speed through new tools and best practices.
Great design drives business results, and you’ll have a big say in how our platform looks and feels for millions. This is a unique chance to shape our future and lead major change as part of a high-impact new team.
The team focuses on several key areas:
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Unified Consumer and Enterprise Home: Serve as the launching pad for discovering, enrolling and learning in Coursera content seamlessly across both our consumer and enterprise products. Interface cleanly with a number of cross-functional teams.
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Personalization: Leveraging key attributes from our learners, personalize the logged-in experience based on the phase of the learner journey. Work closely with related discovery and machine learning teams to better understand and serve the learner.
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Goal Progression and Advancement: Focus the learner on the particular actions that will progress them towards their long term learning goal, whether that be advancing in a new skill, getting an industry certificate or just learning for fun.
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Unified Application Architecture: Establish and govern an unified application architecture which enables the broader engineering organization to build out features across multiple business lines within a single implementation.
Responsibilities:
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Modernize the entire Coursera platform, bringing a clean, consistent, and high-quality look and feel to every step of the learner journey
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Use and explore AI-powered coding and design tools to accelerate delivery and creativity
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Build and maintain large-scale design system components for consistency and quality
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Upgrade critical and legacy pages, improving accessibility, performance, and visual polish
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Collaborate closely with design, business, and product stakeholders to find the best solutions and adapt to changes
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Share knowledge and guide other teams in using the design system and visual standards
Basic Qualifications:
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3+ years of front-end engineering experience
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Strong with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React (or similar frameworks)
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Experience working with or building design systems
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Strong focus on web accessibility and performance
Preferred Qualifications:
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Loves innovating and is curious about AI-assisted development
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Skilled at jumping into large front-end codebases and driving rapid improvements
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Balances long-term design thinking with quick execution on urgent goals
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Communicates well and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams
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Passionate about performance, accessibility, and visual details
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
Compensation:
US Zone 2: From $137,600 to $182,320
The range(s) 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 and 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:
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Zone 2 - Must be in Seattle Metro Area
Coursera is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request at accommodations@coursera.org. Learn more in our CCPA Applicant Notice and GDPR Recruitment Notice.