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Staff Software Developer, Backend, Payments

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Coursera

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Salary:

182400.00 - 228000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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

Requirements:

  • 7+ 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

Nice to have:

  • 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)
What we offer:
  • competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level
  • comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • bonus and RSU equity programs
  • global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 15, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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