Software Development Engineer, HackerRank
$150-172k
+ Equity + Bonuses
3 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
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Assesses developer skills for tech recruiters
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-172k
+ Equity + Bonuses
3 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Accelerate the world's innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, with full-stack or backend experience
- Background in distributed systems, data processing, or ML infrastructure
- Interest in AI, coding models, or human-in-the-loop systems
- Comfort operating in early-stage environments where ambiguity is common and ownership is broad
- Bonus: contributions to open-source AI frameworks or developer platforms
What the job involves
- Build high-scale data and benchmarking pipelines that turn developer interactions into structured training data
- Design APIs and systems for code dataset creation, evaluation, and delivery
- Work closely with ML scientists and data experts to create the tools that fuel reinforcement learning environments and model fine-tuning
- Contribute to Astra Arena, our next-generation DPO-style evaluation platform for LLMs in software engineering
- Work on automated task creation and evaluation systems (expanding SWE-Bench and internal tooling)
- Data APIs that expose curated coding datasets to customers and model labs
- Annotation and feedback tooling for human-in-the-loop benchmarking
- Experimental RL "gyms" for code generation models, built on real developer workflows
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.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2022
$60m
SERIES D
Feb 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.9m
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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