Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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About the job

Role: Senior Software Engineer- Backen

Location: New Delhi

The Culture:

Chegg’s culture celebrates leadership at all levels and does not discriminate based on job descriptions or titles. The culture is open, with our “fast feedback” system implemented to encourage transparency. You will be given latitude to drive and stretch to deliver mutual goals.

The Organization: Security And Fraud Engineering

Security And Fraud Engineering Team is responsible for building foundational platforms to power the Trust and Security initiatives at Chegg. It involves building engineering systems that scale to support Chegg-wide use cases in the Fraud Prevention, Privacy, Compliance and Security areas. We are expected to deliver software that is integral part of the Chegg services that places us in the critical path of excellent Student experience. That inherently means that we need to deliver reliable, scalable, high quality and highly available software. We work with both internal teams and external vendors to build the services.

About the Role

This position is full-time and based in our New Delhi engineering office.

Members of our team provide critical contributions to the future of Trust & Security services at Chegg. We develop our systems utilizing various AWS technologies and Java as the primary language. The successful candidate will work with other senior engineers to plan, design, and build solutions to business problems in a fast-paced environment. We work closely with our stakeholders in the broader Trust and Security organization and build services to cater to business needs. The ideal candidate will be excited about joining our team’s mission to build Chegg-scale systems to support the Trust and Security vision. We are looking for someone who is prepared to offer their insights on designs, methodologies, and innovations in all parts of our technology stack to keep us looking forward while supporting the systems that are already in production

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop innovative solutions to solve business needs
  • Participate in forward-looking design and planning for upcoming product features
  • Work with stakeholders to deeply understand the business use case that we are solving and develop proactive solutions that help address them
  • Be ready to influence the organization through technical design leadership
  • Active interest not only in application code but also great software architecture
  • Continually learn and expand technical knowledge to always provide best-in-class solutions
  • Work with other developers closely throughout all phases of a project – from design and scoping through development, code review, and unit testing
  • Come in every day with a great attitude and willingness to be part of a team solution
  • Must have great communication skills and the ability to work well with others

Requirements:

  • B. Tech/M. tech/MCA/M.Sc. in Computer Science or related discipline with good academic record.
  • 5+ years of demonstrated success as a Software Developer
  • Strong hands-on development experience with Java/J2EE frameworks like SpringBoot including test driven development.
  • Strong experience working with micro services and event driven architectures using message brokers like Kafka, SQS/SNS.
  • Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
  • Thorough knowledge of AWS, preferably with extensive production experience
  • Experience working with third party vendors and integrating partner APIs, including thorough understanding of partner requirements and the ability to work through disparate expectations to come to a common understanding
  • Demonstrated experience delivering projects on time and with a very high degree of quality
  • Documentation skills, including clear code comments, Confluence descriptions, and design documents; this can include professional documentation for Engineering partners outside our immediate team or at other companies
  • Understanding of Agile processes and methodologies, and experience working within Agile engineering teams
  • Self-motivated; independent, organized and proactive; highly responsive, flexible, and adaptable when working across multiple product 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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