Senior Platform Engineer
Job Description Senior Platform Engineer Location:
Remote, Anywhere in the United States 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 stakeholders to identify product opportunities. Demonstrate expertise in using JS/React to quickly iterate toward product goals. Employ industry best practices in your work, and share those practices with your peers. Work across the stack and multiple applications to create user experiences that support our students' learning. Standardize our application data access by contributing to a new GraphQL layer. Improve observability across the system through standardized logging, metrics, and dashboards. Maximize your impact in an environment that strives for high focus and infrequent engineering interruptions. Invest in a culture of accountability by holding yourself and your peers to high standards. Receive regular performance feedback from your manager and peers. Within 6 months, you will:
Break large existing systems into microservices while thoughtfully weighing the costs and benefits of the architectural decisions. Influence the roadmap and product development of Chegg Skills systems. Expand your knowledge and influence by rotating across project pods and working in new codebases and product areas. Lead research and architecture initiatives to support Chegg Skills' rapid growth. Standardize and document operating procedures. Invest in junior developers through mentoring relationships. Develop a career growth plan and goals with your manager.
Salary Range:
$100K -- $150K
Minimum Qualification
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Remote, Anywhere in the United States 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 stakeholders to identify product opportunities. Demonstrate expertise in using JS/React to quickly iterate toward product goals. Employ industry best practices in your work, and share those practices with your peers. Work across the stack and multiple applications to create user experiences that support our students' learning. Standardize our application data access by contributing to a new GraphQL layer. Improve observability across the system through standardized logging, metrics, and dashboards. Maximize your impact in an environment that strives for high focus and infrequent engineering interruptions. Invest in a culture of accountability by holding yourself and your peers to high standards. Receive regular performance feedback from your manager and peers. Within 6 months, you will:
Break large existing systems into microservices while thoughtfully weighing the costs and benefits of the architectural decisions. Influence the roadmap and product development of Chegg Skills systems. Expand your knowledge and influence by rotating across project pods and working in new codebases and product areas. Lead research and architecture initiatives to support Chegg Skills' rapid growth. Standardize and document operating procedures. Invest in junior developers through mentoring relationships. Develop a career growth plan and goals with your manager.
Salary Range:
$100K -- $150K
Minimum Qualification
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software DevelopmentEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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