Lead Backend Engineer

At HackerRank, we are on a mission to change the world to value skills over pedigree. We are a high-performing, mission-driven team that truly, madly, deeply cares about what we do. We don’t see velocity and quality as tradeoffs - both matter. If you take pride in high-impact work and thrive in a driven team, HackerRank is where you belong.

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 hybrid 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.

Bonus Skills:

• 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.

Want to learn more about HackerRank? Check out HackerRank.com to explore our products, solutions and resources, and dive into our story and mission here.

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. 

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