Software Engineer II, Thinkful Online Learning

Job Description

Software Engineer II

Who We Are
Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. We provide 1-on-1 learning through our network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online platform to deliver a structured and flexible education. Thinkful offers programs in web development, data science, and design, with in-person communities in up-and-coming tech hubs around the U.S. To join the Thinkful network visit thinkful.com.

Job Description
We are engineers that build software that helps students change careers into data science, design, and web development. 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 play an important role in a remote team of diverse, 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.

It could not be a more exciting time to join Thinkful’s Engineering team this year! The Thinkful division is growing, and our technical initiatives positively impact more students every month.

Join us and help us 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.

Within 1 month, you will:

• Work with an onboarding buddy to push commits in your first week.
• Use our documentation to learn the microservices architecture.
• Make regular contributions to our JavaScript and Python codebases.
• Use code reviews and pairing with peers to raise code quality.
• Deploy changes confidently with solid test coverage through our robust CI/CD pipeline.
• Take part in team planning and retrospective meetings.
• Spend time getting to know your remote peers over video calls.
• Identify pain points in the team’s process and codebases, and share ideas from past experiences.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to identify product opportunities.
• Demonstrate expertise in using Flask to quickly iterate toward product goals.
• Employ industry best practices in your work, and share those practices with your peers.
• Work across the stack and multiple applications to create user experiences that support our students’ learning.
• Scale out backend applications as traffic and capabilities rapidly grows.
• Improve observability across the system through standardized logging, metrics, and dashboards.
• Manage competing priorities while focusing on value delivery.
• Receive regular performance feedback from your manager and peers.
• Develop a career growth plan and goals with your manager.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Influence the roadmap and product development of Thinkful systems.
• Lead research and architecture initiatives to support Thinkful's rapid growth.
• Design, develop, and operate new resilient distributed services with Python, PostgreSQL, and Heroku.
• Standardize and document operating procedures.

Within 12 months, you will:

• Work with the data warehousing pipeline to provide stakeholders with rich business insights.
• Invest in a culture of accountability by holding yourself and your peers to high standards.
• Expand your knowledge and influence by working in new codebases and product areas.

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 Studentshows 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.

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Chegg is an equal opportunity employer
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