Job Description
Job Description - SSE Backend Engineer
Position: Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Base Location: New Delhi
Location:
India (Remote / Hybrid)
Experience:
7+ years
About Chegg Skills
As Chegg Skills engineers, our software empowers students to move from "learning" to"earning." We build the applications and systems that help students make life-changing careertransitions into high-growth job opportunities. We take pride in making education accessible tomotivated career switchers, and we build the technology that helps them achieve mastery andsuccess.
In this role, you will play a leading role in a fully remote team of diverse, motivated engineerswho are rethinking what education can look like. We serve thousands of students and educatorsevery year, and your work will directly shape how those students learn and succeed.
Chegg Skills is a growing division of Chegg focused on post-collegiate learners. We arecontinuing to grow our engineering team to support business expansion as more students takethe next step in their careers with Chegg. Join us and help scale the engineering foundation forour next phase of growth.
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to own the design, reliability, and scalability ofour backend services and APIs. This role is focused on building robust distributed systems,workflow orchestration, and backend infrastructure that powers learner-facing and operationalexperiences. You will also contribute to the web layer as needed — this is a backend-first rolewith full-stack reach.
What You'll Do
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Design and build backend services and distributed systems with a focus on scalability,reliability, and maintainability.
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Build and extend GraphQL-powered APIs and workflow-driven systems that support learner-facing and operational experiences.
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Improve reliability for integration-heavy and asynchronous workflows, including retries,idempotency, error handling, and recovery paths.
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Improve operational readiness through dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and hands-on incidentdebugging.
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Own the quality of your changes through automated tests, CI stability, rollout checks, andproduction validation.
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Work with or alongside AI/LLM-powered systems — integrating APIs, contributing to agenticworkflows, or extending AI-assisted backend features.
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Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Engineering, Platform/SRE, and ContentOperations to deliver and harden high-impact workflows.
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Contribute to engineering quality through strong code reviews, reusable patterns, andimprovements to delivery speed and system reliability.
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Ship end-to-end changes across backend services and web applications, including API,schema, and UI updates, as needed.
Required Qualifications
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Most qualified candidates will likely bring
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7+ years of professional software developmentexperience
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building production backend systems.
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Strong backend system design experience — distributed systems, scalability, reliabilitypatterns, and service architecture.
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Strong experience with Java/Kotlin and/or Python-based backend systems (Spring, FastAPI,Django, or similar frameworks), plus API design and GraphQL integration.
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Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Airflow, orsimilar).
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Experience debugging production issues end to end, from symptom to root cause, fix, andprevention.
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Experience working on async or integration-heavy systems, including retries, timeouts,idempotency, and workflow/state handling.
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Strong testing and release-validation discipline in environments where engineers own qualitydirectly.
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Experience with observability and operational ownership, including dashboards, alerts,runbooks, and participation in on-call support.
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Comfort using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, with the ability to explain, validate,and safely ship the code you produce.
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Some exposure to React/Next.js or frontend web applications sufficient to contribute to full-stack changes.
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Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) or agentic workflow patterns.
Experience with Temporal specifically for workflow orchestration.
Experience with Kotlin/Java and Spring, or Python with FastAPI/Django.
Experience with internal tooling or operations platforms such as Retool.
Experience with analytics or experimentation instrumentation.
Experience with data ingestion, backfills, or data-quality remediation work.
Tech Stack
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Backend:Python (FastAPI / Django), GraphQL, Kotlin / Java, Spring-based services,Temporal
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Frontend:React / Next.js, Node.js, Auth0-integrated web flows
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Cloud / Delivery:AWS, Docker, GitLab CI
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Observability / Operations:New Relic, Rootly, Playwright
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AI / ML:OpenAI, AWS Bedrock
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, Chegg Skills, 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.
