Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer
*Location: Remote*

As Chegg Skills engineers, our software empowers students to move from “learning” to “earning”. We build the apps and systems that help students make life-changing career changes into high-growth job opportunities. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide accessible education to motivated career switchers. Together we build the tech that helps them reach mastery and success.

In this role, you will play a leading role in a fully remote team of diverse, motivated engineers that is changing what education looks like. We serve an audience of thousands of students and educators every year. Your contributions will shape the way these students learn, helping them succeed in life.

Chegg Skills is a new and growing division of Chegg focusing on post-collegiate demographics. We are growing the engineering team to help support our continued business expansion as more students take the next step in their careers with Chegg. Join us and help scale engineering to power our next phase of growth!


We expect that most qualified candidates will have at least 6 years of professional software development experience building user-facing web applications.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Work with an onboarding buddy to push commits in your first week.
• Use our documentation to learn the microservices architecture.
• Start familiarizing yourself with our React.js, Next.js, and Node.js codebases and begin contributing.
• Use code reviews and pairing with peers to raise code quality.

• Deploy changes confidently with solid test coverage through our robust CI/CD pipeline.
• Participate in sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
• Get to know your remote peers and stakeholders over video calls.
• Identify pain points in the team’s process and codebases with fresh eyes, and share ideas from past experiences.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholder...