Backend Engineer II

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 hybrid in Bangalore, India.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• As a backend 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.
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the team's go-to person for guidance and troubleshooting.
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and regularly work with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically.
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions.
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Participate in hiring initiatives and promote contributions, accomplishments, and victories to help the organization build a top-quality team.

What you will also bring:

• Strong and self-motivated individuals should be able to drive decisions independently.
• Solid experience in building web-based products.
• Overall of 2+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails.
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.
• Expertise in all standard Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Willingness to play and explore new technologies, be a Subject Matter Expert, and support them.
• Someone who believes in minor incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring.
• A keen eye for quality about following and establishing good coding practices and improving code coverage.
• Good stakeholder management and ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders.

Bonus skills:

• 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:

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

• One-time home office set up stipend
• Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
• Flexible paid time off and paid leave for new parents
• 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 26.5M 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.

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