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You will lead the engineering team for Coursera's Payments platform, overseeing the technology strategy, execution, and scaling of our checkout and payment systems for consumers. This role combines iterative product development with new project initiation, directly impacting Coursera's growth and mission to provide accessible education globally. You will manage the payments service architecture, API development, and data modeling, while collaborating with multiple teams and partners across the organization. Your responsibilities include technical leadership, architectural guidance, collaborating with other teams, and driving strategic initiatives to deliver scalable and innovative solutions that align with Coursera's goals. You will cultivate a culture of high performance and collaboration, ensuring operational excellence.

Job Responsibility:

Building the Team: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Data, Finance) to refine the team’s charter, ensure alignment with broader business goals, and support overall team health and growth
Mentoring: Act as a role model and coach for engineers. Conduct regular career development conversations, provide constructive feedback, and inspire engineers to achieve their best
Hiring: Identify key skill gaps and growth areas on the team. Drive the hiring pipeline by sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding talented engineers to build a well-rounded, high-performing team
Advising (Technical Leadership): Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineers as they design systems and tackle complex problems. Encourage sound architectural decisions and help team members grow into technical leaders in their product work
Product Enablement: In partnership with Product Management, curate a compelling vision for the payments platform including expanding our international payments strategy. Translate high-level product needs into an actionable engineering roadmap. Prioritize and drive key initiatives forward, run sprint planning and stand-ups, and ensure the team delivers with high quality on product and business goals in this critical area of the product
Platform Leadership: Balance building new features with managing tech debt to maintain a reliable, scalable platform. Evolve the payments platform for high leverage – architect systems and services that can accelerate multiple product initiatives across Coursera
Mediating: Foster an inclusive, collaborative team environment. Proactively address interpersonal issues and facilitate crucial conversations with empathy and fairness. Ensure every team member feels empowered, engaged, and comfortable sharing ideas and concerns

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, OR equivalent practical experience (e.g. 3+ years as a hands-on software engineer building web applications or distributed systems)
5+ years in software product development or a related field, including prior experience leading engineering teams (2+ years in an engineering management role)
Strong software engineering foundation with experience in system design, data structures, and algorithms

Nice to have:

Experience with Generative AI applications including prompt engineering and using APIs such as OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini
Scalable Systems Expertise: Demonstrated experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, using modern backend technologies such as Java or Scala and API frameworks like GraphQL and gRPC
Full-Stack Familiarity: Familiarity with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, or similar)
Experience with payments systems, and with payments providers like Stripe, is a definite plus

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Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

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Fulltime

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Remote work

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