Frontend Engineer II – AI-Powered Learning UIs

Chegg; United States; Hybrid; USD 9,400 - 16,000; Full time

Job summary

Chegg Skills is seeking a Software Engineer II, Frontend to own the design, quality, and delivery of features across student- and educator-facing web apps. Focus on React/Next.js product experiences, GraphQL data layers, and expanding AI-powered learning features.

The role is frontend-first with full-stack reach; comfortable with backend concepts and AWS to ramp into Kotlin/Java or Python services when needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of frontend engineering in production web apps.
• Strong hands-on experience with React and Next.js in TypeScript.
• Knowledge of web security, performance, accessibility basics.
• Experience designing/consuming GraphQL/REST APIs.
• Testing discipline with Vitest/Jest and Playwright/Cypress.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
• Foundational understanding of data structures and software design.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend features end-to-end across student and educator apps.
• Translate product requirements into component APIs and client-state.
• Debug UI issues and GraphQL supergraph errors across stack.
• Build AI-powered learning features with safe fallbacks.
• Apply security and data protection in code and auth handling.
• Optimize performance and Core Web Vitals.
• Write unit and end-to-end tests; ensure CI stability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, Content Ops.
• Review code and document reusable patterns.
• Ship changes across web app and APIs as needed.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

GraphQL

Testing (Vitest/Jest)

Web security basics

AI-assisted development

REST/WebSockets

Redux Toolkit

Tools

Auth0

AWS

Node.js

Job description

Chegg Skills is seeking a Software Engineer II, Frontend to own the design, quality, and delivery of features across student- and educator-facing web apps. Focus on React/Next.js product experiences, GraphQL data layers, and expanding AI-powered learning features.

The role is frontend-first with full-stack reach; comfortable with backend concepts and AWS to ramp into Kotlin/Java or Python services when needed.