Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer - Commerce Team

Location: New Delhi, India

Job Type: Full-time

About the Team:

Chegg's engineering team is a group of passionate engineers who, in close collaboration with data scientists, product managers, designers, and other backend developers, build the future of the online education industry. We build our products to scale and to last, we don’t take shortcuts (hello unit-tests and documentation), and we take pride in delivering high quality solutions on time. We are cloud native.

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced backend software engineer, who is able to lead the complete SDLC for projects, right from conception till the finished product, is able to deliver high-quality technical designs and code in fast-paced agile scrum environment and is capable of communicating / working closely with all other teams at Chegg. A staff engineer at Chegg is expected to drive global tech initiatives, cross team projects, solve complex architectural problems in the team, handling / owning its deliverables and communicating both upwards and downwards. Hence, bringing in Chegg wide impact. The ideal candidate likes to think outside the box, bring in innovative ideas, is interested in constantly improving themselves and their team by education and feedback, and wants to give some of their work to an open source community. They love tackling new problems, deploying frequently, thinking on their feet.

Responsibilities:

• Engineering and delivery ownership of complex product/services.
• Take ownership, build and ship robust and reliable software system practicing best software design practices with in-depth code reviews.
• Code, build efficient, clean and reusable features / libraries / components which can be shared with all of Chegg engineering, hence contribute to inner source.
• Help design and implement components of Chegg Next Generation Design Systems.
• Role model for engineering excellence to deliver software, that includes design and coding standards, test first strategy, CI/CD, resiliency, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Analyse and optimize web server code for security, efficiency and performance.
• Be a voice in ensuring the team stays true to the technical vision.
• Should act as the face of Chegg Engineering to external world. They should passionately talk about Chegg engineering best practices, technical challenges, architecture etc.
• Being a technical mentor to the team, keeping up to date with latest tech and grooming the next generation of engineers.
• Participate in Company wide architecture reviews and influence outcomes.
• Drive process improvements by staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Skills and Qualifications [Must Have]:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent training or work experience
• The overall experience of 10+ years into designing (HLD, LLD), developing & building architecture for server-side applications.
• Expertise with server-side programming languages like Node, Java, Golang
• Expertise with Spring Boot, Rest / GraphQL based services, APIs and Microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitLab.
• Expertise in Cloud Native Architectures and Design Patterns using AWS cloud platform.
• Strong experience working with microservices, containerization (docker) and event driven architectures (using message brokers like Kafka, SQS/SNS)
• Should possess good soft skills as an important attribute to be influential and be able to leave an impact.
• Good analytical, problem solving skills and critical thinking.

Skills and Qualifications [Good To Have]:

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.
• Experience in working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Familarity with Client Side Javascript Frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS
• Background in having worked in commerce teams.

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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