Software Engineer II - Chegg, Inc.
Hartford, CT
About the Job
Job Description
About the Engineering 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.
The Role:
We are looking for a Fullstack Developer responsible for translating the business requirements to actual code, API's, micro services , UI components that will be critical for content engineering platform. You will also design the overall architecture of the web application and evolve it to ensure maximum performance and stability.
Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications
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.
Video Shorts
Life at Chegg: http://youtu.be/Fwf90zgaOLA
Chegg Corporate Career Page: https://jobs.chegg.com/
Chegg India: http://www.cheggindia.com/
Chegg Israel: http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/israel/
Thinkful (a Chegg Online Learning Service): https://www.thinkful.com/about/#careers
Chegg out our culture and benefits!
http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/benefits/
Chegg is an equal opportunity employer
About the Engineering 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.
The Role:
We are looking for a Fullstack Developer responsible for translating the business requirements to actual code, API's, micro services , UI components that will be critical for content engineering platform. You will also design the overall architecture of the web application and evolve it to ensure maximum performance and stability.
Responsibilities:
- Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application
- Building UI components and web server code for security, efficiency and performance.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Integration of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
- 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
Skills and Qualifications
- The overall experience of 3+ years with UI technologies and Server side technologies (preferably in a E-commerce/EdTech Product company)
- Sound understanding of data structures/ algorithms and SOLID principles.
- 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
- Proficient understanding of code versioning toolsGit, Bitbucket etc.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Ability to implement unit tests using junit
- Good hands-on experience in any of theadvanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, Redux, Apollo / GraphQL, NodeJS etc
- Good hands-on with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus.
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors,such as Less, Sass, etc.
- Good understanding of modern web architecture behind scalable web applications
- Experience building single page web applications is a plus
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.
Video Shorts
Life at Chegg: http://youtu.be/Fwf90zgaOLA
Chegg Corporate Career Page: https://jobs.chegg.com/
Chegg India: http://www.cheggindia.com/
Chegg Israel: http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/israel/
Thinkful (a Chegg Online Learning Service): https://www.thinkful.com/about/#careers
Chegg out our culture and benefits!
http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/benefits/
Chegg is an equal opportunity employer
Source : Chegg, Inc.