Chegg

Job Description

About the Team:

Are you excited at the prospect of empowering millions of students? Do you want to help build software at scale? You'll love this role if you relish ownership of your work, value autonomy, loves to ship code and wants the opportunity to work on a team of brilliant engineers. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer eager to help us as we redefine EdTech markets. Join us if you're looking to work alongside extremely brilliant engineers while rolling up your sleeves, diving into code, and driving our product vision.

Responsibilities:

• Build robust and scalable data infrastructure (both batch processing and real-time) to support needs from internal and external users
• Architect and implement the most secure platforms that can solve the C100K challenges
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance
• Demonstrable experience building robust infrastructure with our developers and data-driven business tools
• Keep technical debt low by reinforcing our Engineering culture of establishing sound practices for ensuring code reviews, high test coverage, and documentation
• Mentoring junior Engineers and help execute effective code & design reviews

Required Skills & Qualification:

• B.E., B.Tech, M.Sc. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• The overall experience of 5+ years with Backend, Server side technologies
• Strong hands-on experience with Object Oriented / Functional programming languages, primarily Java
• Good understanding of frameworks such Springboot, Hibernate & building Microservices (REST or GraphQL)
• Hands-on experience working with SQL / NoSQL
• Experience with Unit testing frameworks for TDD (Test Driven Development) methodology
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, distributed systems & architecture
• Experience with AWS or any similar cloud based technologies / platform is desirable

Why do we exist?

Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Thinkful Online Learning, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.

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