Job Description

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. 

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it’s from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Job Overview:

The Merchandising Team owns a large portion of Coursera’s discovery experience. Our teams are responsible for maintaining a scalable and reliable platform, in addition to building interactive products for the worldwide learner community. The role will also requires collaboration with product, design and marketing teams, to scope and implement new features and improvements across Coursera’s platform. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with a range of internal teams to evaluate and automate complex systems
• Create tools that accelerate program onboarding, reduce manual work, reduce error rates
• Enhance existing tooling and workflows to make them safer and less error-prone
• Build easy to use and intuitive UI to maximize the efficiency of use
• Design and develop integrations with external vendor tools
• Develop tools to scale Coursera’s ability to provide high-quality support to our learners and partners
• Ensure you follow best software development practices including but not limited to unit testing, code reviews and documentation
• Communicate with ease (both written and oral) to all levels of the organization

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors in computer science or relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience in the core technologies of the web: Javascript, HTML, and CSS, experience in at least one modern UI framework (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS, etc), and experience in building large-scale web applications
• Proficiency in implementing responsive web designs and writing FE unit and integration 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

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Compensation: 

Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between $113,600-170,400 CAD for all Canada candidates. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.

Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org. For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here. For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here. #LI-Remote

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