Software Engineer II at Chegg Inc.

Job Description

About the Engineering Team

Chegg’s engineering team is a community of passionate builders who partner closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to shape the future of online learning. Grounded in Chegg’s core values—putting students first, acting with integrity, and holding a high bar for excellence—we build with care and accountability. As the world and our industry continue to evolve, we stay true to those principles: we invest in quality, design for scale and longevity, and avoid shortcuts (hello unit tests and documentation) so we can deliver reliable, high-impact experiences on time.

About the Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer II, Frontend to own the design, quality, and delivery of features across our student-facing web applications. This role is focused on building React/Next.js product experiences, the GraphQL-powered data layers behind them, and increasingly, AI-powered study features (step-by-step solutions, Q&A, and personalized study assistance). You will also contribute across the stack as needed — this is a frontend-first role with full-stack reach, and you should be comfortable enough with backend concepts and AWS infrastructure to ramp into our Java or Python backend services when a task calls for it.

What You'll Do

Own frontend features end-to-end — architecture, implementation, testing, staged rollout, and production monitoring — across student-facing web application.
Translate product requirements into component architecture, GraphQL query/schema boundaries, and client-state contracts (React Query, Redux Toolkit, or similar) that other engineers build on.
Debug cross-system issues that surface in the UI — GraphQL supergraph errors, auth/session edge cases, server/client rendering mismatches — by tracing root cause across the stack.
Build AI-powered study features responsibly: validate model output (e.g., step-by-step solutions, Q&A answers) before it reaches the UI, design graceful fallbacks for unusable or low-confidence responses, and instrument these flows with telemetry.
Apply security and data-protection practices — input validation, secure auth/session handling, careful treatment of student data — as a default part of the code you ship, not a step someone else checks for.
Optimize application performance (rendering strategy, bundle size, Core Web Vitals) as an ongoing part of feature work, particularly for high-traffic student study flows.
Own the quality of your changes through automated tests (unit, component, and end-to-end), CI stability, and production validation.
Partner closely with Product, Design, and Backend to deliver and harden high-impact student workflows (search, Q&A, subscription/paywall flows, study tools).
Contribute to engineering quality through strong code reviews — including review of AI-generated code — reusable patterns, shared components, and clear documentation that keeps technical debt low.
Ship end-to-end changes across the web application and its supporting APIs/schema, as needed.

Required Qualifications

Most qualified candidates will likely bring 4+ years of professional frontend engineering experience building production web applications, with demonstrated ownership of features from design through launch.
Strong hands-on experience with React and Next.js, and comfort working in TypeScript.
Working knowledge of web fundamentals — common security pitfalls (XSS, CSRF, auth/session handling), performance (rendering strategy, bundle size, Core Web Vitals), and accessibility (WCAG/ARIA basics) — and the judgment to apply them without being told to.
Experience designing and consuming APIs across common paradigms — GraphQL (schema design, codegen, querying), REST, and real-time protocols such as WebSockets — and working with at least one modern client-state approach (React Query, Redux Toolkit, or similar).
Strong testing and release-validation discipline — unit/component testing (Vitest or Jest, React Testing Library) and end-to-end testing (Playwright or Cypress).
Comfort using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, with the ability to explain, validate, and safely ship the code you produce.
Sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, and general software design principles, applied pragmatically rather than academically.

Preferred Qualifications

Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure concepts (compute, storage, networking, basic service architecture) and some Node.js backend exposure — enough of a foundation to ramp into our Java or Python backend services when needed.
Experience with Auth0 or similar authentication providers in a Next.js application.
Experience shipping AI-powered UI — streaming responses, structured output rendering, graceful handling of model failures. Experience contributing to shared component libraries or tooling used across multiple teams/repos.
Familiarity with frontend observability tooling (New Relic or similar).
Experience in EdTech, e-commerce, or another high-traffic, subscription-based consumer product company.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React (18/19), Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL (Apollo tooling, codegen against a shared supergraph), React Query / Redux Toolkit / Zustand, styled-components, MUI
Backend (foundational): Node.js, AWS (compute/storage/networking basics) — enough to ramp into Kotlin/Java (Spring) or Python (FastAPI/Django) services owned by backend engineering
Testing: Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright
Auth / Delivery: Auth0, GitLab CI
Observability: New Relic
AI / ML: OpenAI, RAG, MCP, AWS Bedrock (via shared backend integrations)

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.