Senior Software Engineer, HackerRank
$150-170k
+ Employee stock options
Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
Open for applications
Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-170k
+ Employee stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
Accelerate the world's innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience building web-based products with full stack expertise
- Proficiency in at least one dynamic programming language and an MVC framework (e.g., Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Golang for backend; React.js for frontend)
- Skills in database modeling, optimization, and query tuning (preferably with relational databases)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and CI/CD tools, ensuring robust and scalable deployments
- Demonstrated ability to architect and develop highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems
- A proactive approach to adopting new technologies and continuously improving code quality through incremental changes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
Desirable
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience in Data Pipeline Engineering, including designing, building, and optimizing data workflows
- Familiarity with working on projects involving Large Language Models (LLMs) and related technologies
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software 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
- End-to-End Project Delivery: Develop and deploy large, complex projects across both frontend and backend stacks. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth project execution
- Technical Expertise: Participate in technical discussions, provide guidance on full stack solutions, and troubleshoot challenges across the application
- Quality & Performance Enhancement: Monitor and improve key business and engineering metrics related to performance, quality, and system availability across the entire application
- Collaborative Development: Engage in code reviews and design discussions, ensuring best practices are followed for both backend and frontend codebases
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to automate and streamline processes while aligning security with business goals
Our take
Recruiting high quality engineers is a difficult process dominated by uncertainty. Quantifying the skills a candidate should have and then measuring them takes valuable time away from existing employees. HackerRank mitigates this by providing a platform for companies to hire and engineers with the right skills for them, facilitating a more efficient hiring process.
To increase the consistency of technical assessments they provide online coding tests and a platform for running technical screen interviews. These tools decrease the time to hire and help interviewers spot candidates whose CVs may have been overlooked. The platform has seen significant success, and major customers include Goldman Sachs, Wish and Snap.
Over the last few years, HackerRank has released an AI-powered insights product that delivers personalised recommendations on a companies hiring process to help them hire better, as well as a plagiarism detection tool to increase fairness in developer hiring. Impressive 2022 funding secured also means the company can continue to focus on accelerating the drive for technical hiring.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES D
Feb 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.7m
Company benefits
- Every HackerRanker gets a MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse, and keyboard
- We invest in your professional development and provide annual funding for L&D courses
- Your well-being is our top priority. We offer access to numerous mental health resources throughout the year
- Bring your besties to HackerRank – and get paid when they join the team
- We offer comprehensive health plans and cover 100% of premiums for some plans
- You have the chance to share ownership of the company with employee stock options
- Wherever you’re located, we have programs to help you prepare for retirement
- We offer special benefits to ensure you’re engaged and set up for success while working remotely
- Need a new office chair? We offer a monthly stipend to support the tech setup of your choice
- We offer generous PTO plans for you to rest or treat yourself to the vacation of your dreams
- Work from home, the beach, or wherever you’re most productive as long as your tasks get done
- Enjoy company-wide days off and Limited Meeting Fridays to relax and recharge
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Vivek Ravisankar
(CEO)Graduated from NIT Trinchy. Spent a year at Amazon as a Software Engineer.
Hari Karunanidhi
(CTO)Completed a Computer Science degree at NIT Trichy then worked at IBM as a software engineer for a year.
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