Software Engineer Contract

Job Description
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 join a fully remote team of 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 3 years of professional software development experience building highly available, scalable 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 application architecture.
  
• Start familiarizing yourself with our 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 engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify engineering system opportunities and solutions.
  
• Demonstrate expertise in using our tech stacks to quickly iterate toward product goals.
  
• Leverage the AWS tools and systems that will help us grow and scale effectively.
  
• Employ industry best practices in your work, and learn those practices from your peers.
  
• Work across the stack and multiple applications to create the applications that power our students' learning.
  
• Maximize your impact in an environment that strives for high focus and infrequent engineering interruptions.
  
• Receive regular performance feedback from your manager and peers.
  

Within 6 months, you will:

• Invest in a culture of accountability by holding yourself and your peers to high standards.
  
• Carefully design and evolve the data model to support both near- and long-term business use cases.
  
• Break large existing systems into smaller components while thoughtfully weighing the costs and benefits of the architectural decisions.
  
• Expand your knowledge and influence by rotating across project pods and working in new codebases and product areas.
  
• Standardize and document operating procedures.
  
• Develop a career growth plan and goals with your manager.
  

What is Chegg?
An 'always on' digital learning platform.
Chegg puts students first...Everything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more. Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.
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, and Chegg Internships 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.
Video Shorts - Life at Chegg: https://jobs.chegg.com/Video-Shorts-Chegg-Services
Certified Great Place to Work!: http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/chegg
Chegg Corporate Career Page: https://jobs.chegg.com/
Chegg India: http://www.cheggindia.com/
Chegg Israel: http://insider.geektime.co.il/organizations/chegg
Chegg is an equal opportunity employer
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.
Video Shorts
Life at Chegg: http://youtu.be/Fwf90zgaOLA
Certified Great Place to Work!: http://reviews.greatplacetowork.com/chegg
Chegg Corporate Career Page: https://jobs.chegg.com/
Chegg India: http://www.cheggindia.com/
Chegg Israel: http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/israel/
Thinkful (a Chegg Online Learning Service): https://www.thinkful.com/about/#careers
Chegg out our culture and benefits!
http://www.chegg.com/about/working-at-chegg/benefits/
http://techblog.chegg.com/
Chegg is an equal opportunity employer