Software Engineer I
Chegg
Remote in Santa Clara, California
Job Description
Job Description
Software Engineer I
Santa Clara, CA or Remote
Over a million students use Chegg's learning services daily to further their learning. We build software to help these students study effectively, compile research, compile research, and write excellent papers, among many others. To support students, we build great experiences, and to support these experiences, we need great engineering capabilities.
As part of this role, you will help implement the future of Growth Engineering and drive several initiatives across our different surfaces centered around making our students feel known and understood. You will own technologies that help get students ahead in their learning journey. We are empowered by a great team culture that encourages innovation and expects developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership in product vision, technical architecture, and project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop innovative solutions to solve business needs
- Building UI components and web server code for security, efficiency, and performance
- Architect complex, highly available, scalable, resilient systems.
- Work with a team of like-minded engineers to meet team goals.
- Keep technical debt low by reinforcing our Engineering culture of establishing sound practices for ensuring code reviews, high test coverage, and documentation
Requirements:
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud services
- Sound understanding of data structures/ algorithms
- Experience with building applications in CI/CD environment
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git, Bitbucket etc.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Experience with React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
The pay range for this position is $81,400 to $138,600. The actual pay will vary based on geographic location, job requirements, professional experience, and other factors. In addition, Chegg offers a comprehensive benefits plan for eligible employees, including medical, dental, vision, life and supplemental life insurance, short-and long-term disability, mental health support, parental leave, paid time off, volunteer time off, paid holidays, 401(k) with matching contributions, Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (H.S.A.) options, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, an Employee Referral Program, Tuition Reimbursement, and other benefits found at:
https://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/benefits/
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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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