Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Location: Delhi/Hybrid Mode

About the Team:

Not only Shared Service Team/Platform team is expected to deliver software that is going to be used by various other teams within Chegg but also to lead a feature from design to delivery.

That inherently means that team needs to deliver reliable, scalable, high quality and highly available software. Team will be responsible for maintaining stability of the shared service/platform

And providing support to the teams consuming the service. Team will be expected to gather Requirement from other teams and convert them into features.

About the Role: Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering Team

This position is full-time and based in our New Delhi engineering office.

Responsibilities:
• Oversee all software development activities Platform Engineering Team
• Engage with Technical Leads and Senior Engineers in design discussions and clearly articulate those to the Platform Engineering Team.
• Reinforce best practices in development by conducting regular design and code reviews.
• Ability to triage technical issues and code.
• Mentor and develop technical talent.
• Guide the creation and support of highly scalable and fault tolerant systems. On-time delivery of quality content is utmost critical for the organization.
• Setting the example of what a great clean code is while mentoring those around you to do the same.
• Drive process improvements

Requirements:
• Proven team lead with excellent organizational, project planning and team leadership skills
• Working Experience of 5+ years in product-based medium to large organizations.
• Proven track record of working with remote engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java/J2EE frameworks like SpringBoot including test driven development.
• Strong experience working with cloud computing technologies like AWS.
• Strong experience working with microservices and event driven architectures using message brokers like Kafka, SQS/SNS
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.
• B. Tech/M. tech/MCA/M.Sc. in Computer Science or related discipline with good academic record