Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer

Rehovot, IsrealThe Product: Learning Services

The Chegg Learning Services group is the engine that makes Chegg go. Chegg’s Learning Tools include Textbooks, Study Help, Writing Tools, Math Help, Test Prep, and Tutoring – and there are ambitious plans to continue to expand into new services that improve learning outcomes.The Role: Senior Backend Engineer– Learning Services

Chegg is relying on various infrastructure systems to operate efficiently for our students. We’re looking for an amazing senior backend engineer to join the team in Israel, to work on replacing/improving existing infrastructure in order to achieve a more robust and stable one.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative solutions using big data technologies
• Have a strong eye for the operational aspects of the platform such as deployment, performance tuning, 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 rollout.
• Create testable, well-documented code, troubleshoot, participate in code reviews and optimize backend performance.
• Build tools that help us manage both users and our systems.
• Discuss with other engineering teams how an API method should work
  
  

Qualifications

• You have a passion for platform services and APIs as a product.
• Experience designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems and web services.
• You can lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions.
• Strong proficiency in backend infrastructure in JAVA.
• Experience in designing cloud applications using distributed cache and experience of using Redis, ElasticCache or similar products.
• Professional experience operating at least one distributed data storage system, at scale and in a team environment such as MySQL, Elastic Search, etc.
• Experience with AWS platform or similar cloud services
• Proven Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices with Jenkins/TeamCity or similar
• 4+ years of professional experience.
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
  
  

Technology

• Java, Spring boot
• Anything AWS
  
  

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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