Senior Software Engineer

Chegg India; Delhi; Hybrid; INR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid work model

Job summary

Chegg India is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to design and build scalable backend services in a remote/hybrid team based in New Delhi. You will own critical components and work across product, data engineering, and SRE to deliver reliable systems.

The role emphasizes GraphQL APIs, distributed systems, and observability, with opportunities to work with AI-assisted tooling and frontend touches as needed. Strong emphasis on testing, CI, deployment, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience building production backend systems.
• Strong backend system design experience — distributed systems, scalability, reliability patterns, and service architecture.
• Strong experience with Java/Kotlin and/or Python-based backend systems (Spring, FastAPI, Django, or similar frameworks), plus API design and GraphQL integration.
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Airflow, or similar).
• Experience debugging production issues end to end, from symptom to root cause, fix, and prevention.
• Experience working on async or integration-heavy systems, including retries, timeouts, idempotency, and workflow/state handling.
• Strong testing and release-validation discipline in environments where engineers own quality directly.
• Experience with observability and operational ownership, including dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and on-call support.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, with the ability to explain, validate, and safely ship the code you produce.
• Some exposure to React/Next.js or frontend web applications sufficient to contribute to full-stack changes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Build and extend GraphQL-powered APIs and workflow-driven systems that support learner-facing and operational experiences.
• Improve reliability for integration-heavy and asynchronous workflows, including retries, idempotency, error handling, and recovery paths.
• Improve operational readiness through dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and hands-on incident debugging.
• Own the quality of your changes through automated tests, CI stability, rollout checks, and production validation.
• Work with or alongside AI/LLM-powered systems — integrating APIs, contributing to agentic workflows, or extending AI-assisted backend features.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Engineering, Platform/SRE, and Content Operations to deliver and harden high-impact workflows.
• Contribute to engineering quality through strong code reviews, reusable patterns, and improvements to delivery speed and system reliability.
• Ship end-to-end changes across backend services and web applications, including API, schema, and UI updates, as needed.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Java/Kotlin/Python

GraphQL APIs

Workflow orchestration

Production debugging

Testing & release

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Frontend exposure

Tools

Temporal

AWS Step Functions

Airflow

Spring

FastAPI

Django

React

Next.js

Job description

Position: Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Base Location: New Delhi
Location: India (Remote / Hybrid)

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 career transiti​ons into high‑growth job opportunities. We take pride in making education accessible to motivated career switchers, and we build the technology that helps them achieve mastery and success.

Job Description

In this role, you will play a leading role in a fully remote team of diverse, motivated engineers who are rethinking what education can look like. We serve thousands of students and educators every 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 are continuing to grow our engineering team to support business expansion as more students take the next step in their careers with Chegg. Join us and help scale the engineering foundation for our next phase of growth.

What You'll Do

• Design and build backend services and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Build and extend GraphQL‑powered APIs and workflow‑driven systems that support learner‑facing and operational experiences.
• Improve reliability for integration‑heavy and asynchronous workflows, including retries, idempotency, error handling, and recovery paths.
• Improve operational readiness through dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and hands‑on incident debugging.
• Own the quality of your changes through automated tests, CI stability, rollout checks, and production validation.
• Work with or alongside AI/LLM‑powered systems — integrating APIs, contributing to agentic workflows, or extending AI‑assisted backend features.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Engineering, Platform/SRE, and Content Operations to deliver and harden high‑impact workflows.
• Contribute to engineering quality through strong code reviews, reusable patterns, and improvements to delivery speed and system reliability.
• Ship end‑to‑end changes across backend services and web applications, including API, schema, and UI updates, as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Most qualified candidates will likely bring
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• building production backend systems.
• Strong backend system design experience — distributed systems, scalability, reliability patterns, and service architecture.
• Strong experience with Java/Kotlin and/or Python‑based backend systems (Spring, FastAPI, Django, or similar frameworks), plus API design and GraphQL integration.
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Airflow, or similar).
• Experience debugging production issues end to end, from symptom to root cause, fix, and prevention.
• Experience working on async or integration‑heavy systems, including retries, timeouts, idempotency, and workflow/state handling.
• Strong testing and release‑validation discipline in environments where engineers own quality directly.
• Experience with observability and operational ownership, including dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and participation in on‑call support.
• Comfort using AI‑assisted development tools responsibly, with the ability to explain, validate, and safely ship the code you produce.
• Some exposure to React/Next.js or frontend web applications sufficient to contribute to full‑stack changes.

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

• Backend: Python (FastAPI / Django), GraphQL, Kotlin / Java, Spring‑based services, Temporal
• Frontend: React / Next.js, Node.js, Auth0‑integrated web flows
• Cloud / Delivery: AWS, Docker, GitLab CI
• Observability / Operations: New Relic, Rootly, Playwright
• 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.

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Chegg is an equal opportunity employer