Software Engineer, II - Frontend

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 191 million registered learners as of September 30, 2025 . Coursera partners with over 375 leading universities and industry partners to offer a broad catalogue of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

We’re a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you’re ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.

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.

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 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.

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