Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Commerce Engineering Team (Contract)

Job Description

Senior Full-stack Engineer - Commerce Engineering Team (Contract)

Santa Clara, CA Hybrid

The Commerce team is the backbone of Chegg - supporting every business line and functional organization at the company.

We are seeking a passionate, results-oriented, engineer to solve our next generation challenges and define our technical strategy. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and expects developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture, and project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop full stack applications using Node, JavaScript, Rest APIs/GraphQL, React and modern database technologies

• Have a strong eye for the operational aspects of the platform such as deployment, performance tuning, scalability and monitoring

• Lead and participate in critical technical and product discussions with leaders across our engineering, product, and business teams

• Ownership on the entirety of your features; including API design, implementation, automated testing, and roll out

• Work as an escalation point to troubleshoot any production issues

• Keep technical debt low by reinforcing our Engineering culture of code reviews, good test coverage, and documentation

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience building high quality, highly performant, resilient and secure services for high traffic sites

• Strong experience building backend services developed in NodeJS

• experience building scalable, performant GraphQL based APIs

• Experience developing web applications using React and Typescript

• Professional experience working with at least one data storage system, at scale such as MySQL, DynamoDB, etc., and a cloud service such as AWS

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices with Jenkins/Gitlab or similar

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Preferred

• Experience working in large scale e-commerce retailers

• Flexibility; able to quickly pivot based on business priorities

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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