Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

SeniorPlatformEngineer

As Chegg Skillsengineers, our softwareempowers students to move from learning to earning. We build the apps and systems that helpstudentsmake life-changing career changes into high-growth job opportunities. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide accessible education to motivated career switchers. Together we build the tech that helps them reach mastery and success.

In this role, you will play a leading role in afullyremote team of diverse, motivated engineers that is changing what education looks like. We serve an audience of thousands of students and educators every year. Your contributions will shape the way these students learn, helping them succeed in life.

Chegg Skills is a new and growing divisionofChegg focusing on post-collegiatedemographics.We are growing the engineering team to help support our continued business expansion as more students take thenext step in their careers with Chegg.Join us and help scale engineering to power our next phase of growth!

We expect that most qualified candidates will have at least 6 years of professional software development experiencebuilding user-facing web applications.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Work with an onboarding buddy to push commits in your first week.
• Use our documentation to learn the microservices architecture.
• Start familiarizing yourself with ourReact.js, Next.js, andNode.jscodebasesand begin contributing.
• Use code reviews and pairing with peers to raise code quality.

• Deploy changes confidently with solid test coverage through our robust CI/CD pipeline.
• Participateinsprintplanning and retrospective meetings.
• Getto know your remote peersand stakeholdersover video calls.
• Identify pain points in the team's process and codebaseswith fresh eyes, and share ideas from past experiences.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify product opportunities.
• Demonstrate expertise in usingJS/Reactto quickly iterate toward product goals.
• Employ industry best practices in your work, and share those practices with your peers.
• Work across the stack and multiple applications to create user experiences that support our students learning.
• Standardizeourapplicationdata access bycontributingtoa newGraphQLlayer.

• Improve observability across the system through standardized logging, metrics, and dashboards.
• Maximize your impact in an environment that strives for high focus and infrequent engineering interruptions.
• Invest in a culture of accountability by holding yourself and your peers to high standards.
• Receive regular performance feedback from your manager and peers.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Influence the roadmap and product development ofChegg Skillssystems.
• Expand your knowledge and influence by rotating across project pods and working in new codebases and product areas.
• Lead research and architecture initiatives to supportChegg Skillsrapid growth.
• Honeyour skills with accessibility training and makeaccessibilitypart of your definition of done.

• Standardize and document operating procedures.
• Invest in junior developers through mentoring relationships.
• Develop a career growth plan and goals with your manager.

Why do we exist

Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study calledshows 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, Chegg Skills, 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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