This post was written by Alex Ozdemir in the fall of 2018. I’ve been lucky enough to intern at Coursera not just once, but twice. While I had been an intern at other software engineering firms before, my experiences at Coursera gave me a fundamentally deeper understanding of software engineering…

By David Winegar At Coursera, we use Flow to type our Javascript and catch mistakes at compile time. Flow has been enormously useful as a documentation tool and has increased the productivity of our frontend engineers. However, this tool can be tricky to use with React; it took us several…

By Lewis Chung Today I’m excited to release the first episode of our engineering podcast! These podcasts will supplement our blog posts as another medium through which we can share the work we do at Coursera. …

By Deepkanwal Plaha I joined Coursera just over a year and a half ago as a new graduate software engineer. During this time, I’ve had the opportunity to work on three different platforms. I was hired as an iOS engineer, transitioned to Android to help fill out a shortage of…

By Nikhil Garg Coursera decided to start using GraphQL supported APIs in the spirit of making our platform faster, and better for our learners. To facilitate that, our engineers extended existing technologies used within Coursera to be compatible with GraphQL. …

By eleith Five years ago, faced with a new role (team lead) on a new team (team pineapple), I decided to run the perfect stand up. The task felt daunting and I did what all engineers do when faced with a challenge: I used google (hoping to find an answer…

Using crowdsourcing and data science to improve discovery by Airong Cai, Yan Huang … and check out the TechCrunch article about this topic! … Here at Coursera, we care deeply about connecting learners with the right educational content to reach their goals. The good news is, with over 1,800 courses on our platform in just about every subject…

By Evan Yeung The frontend infrastructure team at Coursera works hard to make developers as productive as possible. This includes keeping up with the latest and greatest tools and libraries, but also means making builds and deploys as fast and painless as possible. As our codebase has grown to harbor…

By eleith I spend a lot of my time advising engineering managers and “How much code should I write?” gets asked by a lot of folks new to the role. Many good essays propose one line answers ranging from no all the way to 30% of your time. However, focusing…