Software Engineering courses
The software engineering courses listed here cover system design, architecture, testing, DevOps, cloud deployment and working in a codebase other people also touch. The providers include IBM, the University of Minnesota, Amazon Web Services, Meta and ETH Zurich.
This is the shelf for people who can already write code and now need to ship and maintain it. If you are still learning the language itself, start in Programming and come back for the design and delivery material.
A Software Engineering course is worth paying for when it closes a gap someone is hiring for. Read your CV against the job you are targeting in CV and Job Match, check what the role pays and who is advertising for it in Job Scout and on the salary pages, and let Course Path put the remaining gaps in order, cheapest and shortest first where that makes no difference to the outcome.
Software Engineering courses worth starting with
The catalogue holds 104 Software Engineering courses. These 15 are the ones we point people at first, chosen for a provider name a recruiter recognises, a credential worth writing on a CV and a description that says more than the course title. Each page carries the provider, the level, the length and the certificate. The rest of the subject is on the same page, and the filters search all of it.
- Mobile Computing with App Inventor - CS Principles
- Swift 5 iOS Application Developer Specialization
- DevOps, Cloud, and Agile Foundations
- DevOps on AWS Specialization
- Class Diagrams for Software Engineering
- Software Engineering Introduction
- Agile Software Development
- APIs
- iOS App Development with Swift
- Android App Development
- Android App Development with Kotlin
- Flutter & Dart Development for iOS and Android
- Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering
- Introduction to DevOps Transforming and Improving Operations
- Guided Project Create and Deploy Your First Kubernetes Pod V2
What this page lists for Software Engineering
104 Software Engineering courses have a page on this site. By platform that is Udemy 57, edX 26, Coursera 18, Scrimba 3. By the level the provider states, 36 beginner, 50 intermediate, 18 advanced. On credentials, 12 are a Professional Certificate and 92 a plain certificate of completion. Every one of those counts is a count of rows in the catalogue on this page, and every one of them can be checked against the filters on this page: set the platform or the level and compare the number of results.
What this page does not cover
- 57 of the 104 come from Udemy alone, so this shelf reflects what Udemy publishes more than it reflects the subject.
- We have not taken these courses. The level, the length and the certificate line come from the provider's own listing, and nothing on this page is a review of the teaching.
- A certificate is usually a paid extra rather than part of a free course. edX states of its own audit track that "Auditors have temporary access to edX course materials at no cost", and the certificate sits on the paid track instead. Read the price line on the course page before you assume a free course ends in a credential.
- Careery earns affiliate commission on some course links. It does not change the order of this list, which is set by the filters you choose, and it is the reason to say so here.
- This is what we list, not what exists. A subject missing from the counts above is missing from our catalogue, which is not evidence that nobody teaches it.
Catalogue last updated 2026-09-13. Counts on this page are generated from that catalogue when the page is built, so they change when it does. The edX wording above was read on 2026-09-28. For what a certificate is and is not worth on a CV, read are online certificates worth it.