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UX Designer in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

As we innovate in the cutting-edge of online education, we are looking for a UX designer that can identify and solve design issues, understand user needs, and help us keep online learning simple. You will play a key role in shaping how users interact with our courses.

Our goals include implementing a user experience that keeps our students engaged with the material and completing their courses, while at the same time allowing them to build a social network around the course material, connecting with old friends and making new ones.

Our ideal candidate will have a keen eye for usability design and a solid understanding of what it takes to make our user experiences as smooth and enjoyable as possible, and be able to clearly communicate this to our development team and work with them as a representative of the student users.

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Software Engineer in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

As a software engineer with Coursera, you will be building the core platform that powers our courses. You will be working across the stack to help engineer end-to-end solutions for our host of tough problems, many of which are new and unique to our efforts to bring affordable education to everyone.

Some of the challenges we face are so new that a standard term for them has yet to be invented. Here’s a sampling: how can we design scalable systems that will allow us to automatically grade and assess millions of students taking classes in math, history, or literature? And how can we prevent cheating and verify the identity of our students without being overly intrusive?

We use a wide variety of technologies in our backend, including AWS, Python, Memcached, MongoDB, MySQL. You don't need to come in knowing all of these; we want talented engineers who can pick up the tools they need on the fly, and who share our passion for writing code that will help millions of students across the world. If you fit this bill, apply now.

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Web Application Engineer in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

Coursera is looking for Javascript/HTML5 experts to build high quality web applications that bring online courses to our students. As part of our small and agile team of software engineers, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing the front-end designs, and working with other members on the team to integrate the the application into our platform.

We use a variety of technologies in our platform, such as backbone.js, require.js, node.js, jQuery, jade, and more! You don't need to come in knowing all of these; we want talented engineers who can pick up the tools they need on the fly, and who share our passion for writing code that will help millions of students across the world. If you fit this bill, apply now.

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DevOps in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

As a DevOp at Coursera, you will be working to build and maintain the core systems that powers the platform. This is a challenging role which includes operations, quality assurance and application development. You should be comfortable setting up infrastructure and server configurations, but also ready to dive into the code base to help bring features into production.

We have many unique problems to solve: for example, to support a single homework assignment in our databases class, our servers have to smoothly execute hundreds of thousands of arbitrary SQL queries, while protecting against malicious and potentially destructive code.

We use a wide variety of technologies in our backend, including AWS, Python, Memcached, MongoDB, MySQL. You don't need to come in knowing all of these; we want talented engineers who can pick up the tools they need on the fly, and who share our passion for writing code that will help millions of students across the world. If you fit this bill, apply now.

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Course Operations Specialist in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

Please provide:

1) A cover letter, detailing why you would like to join us and why you think you are a good fit.

2) Your resume and portfolio. We are very interested in links to previous projects that you’ve played a significant part in (please include a description of your role in those projects). Where appropriate, feel free to give us links to code snippets, design sketches, etc. relevant to these projects as well.

3) If you are a student or if you have graduated within the last 3 years, please include a copy of your unofficial transcript.

4) Information about your work authorization status in the United States.

Successful applicants will be working most days out of our Mountain View office.

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Community Manager in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organized community manager to nurture and develop our rapidly growing community of students. As the community manager you will manage our social media and the day to day operations of our community programs. You will also handle student support issues and communicate student feedback to our engineers. An ideal candidate for this role would be highly organized, have superior written communication skills, have experience with social media, and love working with people. You will play a critical role in ensuring that students have a wonderful experience on Coursera.

Responsibilities:
-Manage our social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, blog)
-Grow and refine our community programs (community TA’s, translation community, community ambassadors)
-Manage student support issues and communicate feedback to the engineering team to improve the student experience
-Work with PR and the Business Development team to surface student stories

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Intern in Mountain View

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:18 GMT

Please provide:

1) A cover letter, detailing why you would like to join us and why you think you are a good fit. Specify which of the four positions you are applying as an intern for.

2) Your resume and portfolio. We are very interested in links to previous projects that you’ve played a significant part in (please include a description of your role in those projects). Where appropriate, feel free to give us links to code snippets, design sketches, etc. relevant to these projects as well.

3) If you are a student or if you have graduated within the last 3 years, please include a copy of your unofficial transcript.

4) Information about your work authorization status in the United States.

Successful applicants will be working most days out of our Mountain View office.

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Interaction Designer in Mountain View

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:11 GMT

We are looking for a talented interaction designer who can lead the way for how online education is offered. You will be creating novel, elegant user interfaces, designing beautiful graphics that bring them to life, and thinking about the future of user interfaces for online education.

As our interaction designer, you will creating cutting-edge user interfaces for our web applications, through detailed mockups and working prototypes. You will conceptualize intuitive user interfaces and workflows in our entire platform, and you will take the lead in working with our engineers to integrate these designs into our system.

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