We are revolutionizing technical hiring by giving companies a skills-based hiring platform that enables our customers to assess technical skills effectively. We are growing fast and looking to add to our Engineering team. This position is full-time and based in Bengaluru.
As a Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal part in HackerRank’s mission to “Accelerate the World’s Innovation”. You are excited to make an impact on the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired. We are revolutionizing technical hiring by giving companies a skills-based hiring platform that enables our customers to assess technical skills effectively.You will be responsible for building skills centric products for the developers and hiring managers. We're a friendly, motivated, and passionate group looking for more smiling faces to join us. We’re growing fast and looking to add to our Engineering team. This position is full-time and based in Bangalore.
You will be working on:
- As a software engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver even large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
- Be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
- Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
- Proactively participate in code reviews, architecture and design discussions, and tech talks
- Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
- Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Initiatives and Tech Debts
- Leading and Contributing towards organization initiatives
- Mentoring Interns and Budding Engineers
- Helping the organization hire, onboard and mentor quality talent
We are looking for:
- Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
- Overall of 4+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails.
- Expertise in Database modelling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries.
- Expertise in all common Cloud technologies,both AWS and GCP Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
- Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- Good stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
Nice to have:
- Experience in at least one Frontend framework, preferably React.js
- It is good to have Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies.
- Web application security best practices and knowledge of common application security vulnerabilities XSS, SQL injection, etc
Benefits & Perks:
As if working alongside the smartest brains wasn’t enough. We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks which include:
- Insurance to all employees (term life, personal accident, medical, gratuity) along with medical insurance for their dependents
- Special Corona insurance to employees and dependents
- Employee stock options, flexible work hours, and time off
- Employee Reimbursements on health, telephone, internet, and more
About HackerRank:
HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $58 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,800+ companies across industries and 15M+ developers around the world. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every step of the hiring process, allowing teams to hire the best and reduce engineering time. Developers rely on HackerRank to turn their skills into great jobs. We’re data-driven givers who take full ownership of our work and love delighting our customers!
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