Chegg Hiring for Software Engineer – I (Backend) at Jasola, Delhi, Delhi Full Time

Job Description

Position – Software Engineer – I (Backend)

Location – New Delhi

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 software engineers who are passionate about solving real world problems for students in online education using technology.

The ideal candidate is the one who can think outside the box, is passionate about technology, adaptable, thinks big and has a passion for making an impact. Chegg is evolving at a very fast pace and we are constantly redefining our offerings matching the requirements of our student community, the candidate should have the appetite to pivot fast and is interested in continuous improvement and learning. Chegg has a very open and vibrant engineering culture where the candidate will get the opportunity to work with the best in the industry, the role demands to ideate and share creative ideas as you never know the next big thing Chegg works on can come from you !! If you have dreamt of leveraging your skills and knowledge to make an impact on something which is big enough to matter Chegg provides those opportunities and the candidate should make the best use of it.

What you’ll do

Get the opportunity to work on the latest and greatest in the education technology space.

Contribute towards building the next generation education services which matter to the students.

Get the opportunity to contribute and learn various aspects of B2C software development

As a developer get the opportunity to work on the front end, back end, Dev-ops, mobile application development and machine learning enabling you to be a full stack developer

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability

Implement security and data protection.

Collaborate with other team members, product managers, designers, data scientists and other 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

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

Continuously look for ways to improve our product and processes, provide feedback.

Have fun doing what you love!!

Skills and Qualifications

B.E., B.Tech, Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field

Strong Computer Science fundamentals with competencies in software design, data structures, and problem-solving, debugging skills.

Experience with Java 8 or higher

Experience of SpringBoot framework.

Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases

Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS.

Knowledge of Microservices fundamentals

At least 1 year experience in software development.

Bonus Points

Experience with open source contribution.

Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for web applications.

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.