Backend Engineer, HackerRank

• 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

• 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