Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Job Location-New Delhi
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.

What you’ll do 

• 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 

• Keep technical debt low by reinforcing our Engineering culture of establishing sound practices for ensuring code reviews, high test coverage, automation tests and documentation 

• Mentoring junior Engineers and help execute effective code & design reviews 

Required Skills & Qualification: 

• A track record of building large-scale, highly-available systems that solve complex, organizational level business problems. 

• 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 

• Demonstrable experience in designing, implementing & building large scale distributed systems  

• Strong hands-on experience with Object Oriented / Functional programming languages, primarily Java 

• Good understanding of frameworks such Springboot/Jersey, Hibernate & building Microservices (REST or GraphQL or gRPC) 

• Hands-on experience working with SQL / NoSQL 

• Exposure to Git, Jenkins, CICD and Test Driven Development (Unit testing methodology) 

• Strong knowledge of SDLC, distributed systems & architecture 

• Experience with AWS or any similar cloud based technologies / platform is desirable. 

Good to have Skills 

• Experience working with Microservices and Service Mesh 
• Exposure to Kotlin language 
• Experience in building gRPC services 

What is Chegg?
An ‘always on’ digital learning platform.
Chegg puts students first…Everything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.

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, Tutors, Chegg Math, Chegg Internships 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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