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Lead Backend Engineer - Platforms

Location
Remote within India / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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About the role

We are revolutionizing tech hiring by building the next gen developer skills platform. This position is an opportunity to engineer core components of HackerRank’s developer skills platform. You will be  responsible for building core services and shared infra.

HackerRank is the leader in the tech hiring space and we continue to innovate and revolutionize this space. Do you have engineering skills, passion for driving innovation and creativity for solving problems? Are you excited to build robust and scalable enterprise solutions? Come join us!! We are looking to add full-time, 100% remote engineers to our fast growing engineering teams.

You will be working on:

  • Building highly scalable services of the HackerRank’s developer skills platform
  • Push the barriers of performance, scale and reliability of core services leveraged by multiple products
  • Own, execute and deliver products/features end-to-end from planning to design to development to deployment
  • Be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
  • Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
  • Mentor junior engineers to succeed with their deliverables
  • Drive engineering standards and best practices for coding, code reviews, releases in your team

We are looking for:

  • 6+ years expertise in software development
  • String technical expertise in container stack: docker, k8s
  • Technical expertise in Golang
  • Expertise in common Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows

Benefits & Perks: 

As if working alongside the smartest brains wasn’t enough. We have a full package of competitive benefits and perks which include:

  • Insurance to all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
  • Special Corona insurance to employees and dependents
  • Employee stock options, flexible work hours, and time off
  • Employee Reimbursements on health, telephone, internet, and more

About HackerRank:

HackerRank is a Y Combinator alumnus backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $58 million. The HackerRank Developer Skills Platform is the standard for assessing developer skills for 2,800+ companies across industries and 15M+ developers around the world. Companies like LinkedIn, Stripe, and Peloton rely on HackerRank to objectively evaluate skills against millions of developers at every step of the 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!

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Why you should join HackerRank

HackerRank
Founded:
Team Size:300
Location:Mountain View
Founders
Vivek Ravisankar
Vivek Ravisankar
CEO
Harishankaran
Harishankaran
Founder