Backend Engineer, HackerRank
$140-160k
This range doesn’t include commissions, bonuses, stock options, or benefits
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
$140-160k
This range doesn’t include commissions, bonuses, stock options, or benefits
3+ days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Accelerate the world's innovation.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced engineer with 3+ years in the field, including 4+ years building and maintaining production systems in TypeScript and Node.js
- A technical leader with at least a year of experience guiding projects or mentoring teammates
- Someone who holds a high bar for code quality, testing, and operational reliability
- Comfortable using AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT to move faster and ship better code
- You’ll thrive in this role if:
- Designing complex systems excites you, and you deliver impact with every commit
- Operational excellence and reliability are principles you care deeply about
- Collaboration is second nature, you’ve worked across teams to drive meaningful outcomes
- You hold yourself and others to a high bar of engineering excellence
Desirable
- Run temporal in production, and worked with Nest.js to build reliable, scalable services
- Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure, and familiarity with enterprise integration patterns and ATS platforms
- Built internal tooling or automation powered by AI/LLMs to reduce manual effort and improve developer productivity
What the job involves
- The Integrations Team owns the pipelines that enable data to flow in and out of HackerRank, allowing customers to use HackerRank products from any third-party tool seamlessly
- We meet the customers where they are from Applicant Tracking Systems to communication tools such as Slack and Zoom
- Integration is a critical part of the business and is one of the many reasons why customers choose HackerRank
- Making this seem simple to customers means abstracting away the complexities of making systems talk to each other in a scalable and resilient way, and that wouldn’t be possible without a team of skilled engineers
- As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a technical leadership role in designing, building, and supporting world-class integrations. You’ll break down complex business and product challenges into engineering work, partner closely with peers across teams, and deliver solutions that raise the bar for reliability and excellence
- Design and deliver high-scale, resilient integrations that power HackerRank’s ecosystem
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to break down, prioritize, and execute integration work
- Support enterprise customers with complex integration needs
- Continuously improve HackerRank’s engineering practices and standards
- Use AI-powered development tools to accelerate coding, debugging, and automation 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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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