Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities : • Ship reliable software, practicing robust software design and in-depth code reviews. • Build efficient, clean and reusable features / libraries / components which can be shared with all of Chegg engineering. • Collaborate with our design and product teams on defining and delivering new features to ensure a great experience for our users. • Analyze and optimize UI and web server code for security, efficiency and performance. • Be a voice in ensuring the team stays true to the technical vision. • Being a technical mentor to the team, keeping up to date with latest tech and grooming the next generation of engineers. Skills and Qualifications • Proven team lead with excellent organizational, project planning and team leadership skills. • Overall experience of 8+ years with UI technologies • Strong hands-on experience in any of the advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, Redux, Apollo / GraphQL, NodeJS, SSR etc. • Strong hands-on with NodeJS and TypeScript • Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors, such as Less, Sass, etc. • Good understanding of modern web architecture behind scalable web applications • Practical understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications • Strong understanding of TDD and writing unit test cases • Own decisions around refactoring and strengthening the frontend ecosystem • self-motivated and organized and demonstrate a persistent passion to learn • Experience building single page web applications is a plus • Experience with AWS cloud service platform or similar is a plus • Experience with building component of developer platform is a plus • Experience with handling large amount of data (millions of rows) on frontend is a plus • Experience with open source contribution is a big plus ​ • Any track record with visual design and design teams is a plus