Lead Engineer - Backend (Onsite)

7 Months ago • 6-10 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

HackerRank seeks a Lead Backend Engineer to build and enhance their developer skills platform. You'll lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to organization-wide initiatives. Strong experience with Ruby on Rails, database modeling, and AWS is essential.
Must have:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Database Modeling
  • AWS Cloud
  • Distributed Systems
Good to have:
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Web Security
  • Technical Interview
Perks:
  • Remote Stipend
  • Professional Development

Job Details

About the job

This role will be onsite in Bangalore.

At HackerRank, we help over 2,500 of the most prestigious logos across industries find, hire and upskill amazing developer talent using our SaaS-based Developer Skills Platform. We pioneered and continue to lead the developer skills market. At HackerRank, we are passionate about our mission to "Change the world to value skills over pedigree. This position is full-time and onsite in Bangalore.

As a Lead 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’re responsible for building the world’s leading technical interview platform. We believe in “Extreme ownership” and you’ll have immense ownership both in terms of product and engineering. Your work will have a direct impact on the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired.

  • This role will be onsite in Bangalore during the 1st and 3rd months of each quarter (Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, September, October, December) and is subject to change.

You Will Be Working On

  • As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
  • Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
  • Lead technical discussions within the team and 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.
  • Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in architecture and design discussions
  • Set up solid processes and practices around code quality, conventions, and standards
  • Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Debts
  • Leading and Contributing towards organization-wide tech initiatives
  • Mentoring Interns and Senior engineers
  • Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives.

We Are Looking For

  • Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
  • Extensive experience in building web based products
  • Experience of leading a small team
  • Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences.
  • Overall of 6+ 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 AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
  • Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
  • A keen eye for quality with regard to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage,
  • Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Nice To Have (optional)

  • Knowledge of the technical interview process and how roles like backend/frontend/DevOps engineers are vetted
  • 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

We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks, which include the following:

    • One-time home office set up stipend
    • Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
    • Professional Development Reimbursement
    • Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
    • Flexible paid time off, paid leave for new parents, and flexible work hours
    • Insurance for all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
    • Employee stock options
About HackerRank

HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $100 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,500+ companies across industries and 23M+ developers worldwide. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every 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!

HackerRank is a proud equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide equal opportunity to everyone for employment based on individual performance and qualification. We never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Notice To Prospective HackerRank Job Applicants

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Here’s How To Spot The Real Deal

  • Our Recruiters use @hackerrank.com email addresses.
  • We never ask for payment or credit check information to apply, interview, or work here.

Thanks for your interest in HackerRank!

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