An always on digital learning platform. Chegg puts students firstEverything 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.
Job description
Chegg India is hiring for the role of Lead Engineer – Backend for Delhi location.
Please find the Job Description below and if interested for the opportunity please reach to us with your resume directly at email ID – sbhatia@chegg.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Culture:
Cheggs 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 : Engineering
Chegg’s engineering team is a group of passionate engineers who, in close collaboration with data scientists, product managers, designers, and UX researchers, build the future of the online education industry. We build our products to scale and to last, we dont take shortcuts (hello unit-tests and documentation), and we take pride in delivering high quality solutions on time.
The Role : Lead Engineer
We are looking for Lead Engineer who is 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.
Responsibilities :
- Contribute towards building the next generation education services which matter to the students.
- Collaborate with other team members, product managers, designers, data scientists and other stakeholders to deliver on time with high quality.
- Own and drive end to end product development lifecycle.
- Mentor and develop technical talent.
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implement security and data protection.
- 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!!
Requirements :
- Working Experience of 7-10 years in product based medium to large organizations
- Proven team lead with excellent organizational, project planning, communication and team leadership skills
- 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.
- Strong hands-on development experience with Java/J2EE frameworks like Spring Boot including test driven development.
- Strong experience working with microservices and event driven architectures using message brokers like Kafka, SQS/SNS
- Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS.
your resume directly at email ID – sbhatia@chegg.com
