Backend Engineer II

HackerRank helps thousands of companies like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Mercedes and Amazon hire developers based on their skills vs. pedigree, and also nurtures a community of millions of developers to upskill themselves to become next-gen developers.

The people at HackerRank care deeply about their work and have an extremely intense work ethic. In many companies, speed & quality is a tradeoff. At HackerRank, it’s not -- we expect you to ship in about half the time that most competent people think is possible while maintaining a standard of quality you’d proudly sign your name on. The only way to make this happen is if you truly love your craft and are deeply committed to growth.

You will thrive in this role if you

• As a backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members.

• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables.

• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting.

• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and regularly work with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically.

• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions.

• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.

• Help the organization build a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories.

What you will also bring

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to drive decisions independently.

• Solid experience in building web-based products.

• Overall of 2+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails.

• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries.

• Expertise in all standard Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows.

• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems.

• Willingness to play and explore new technologies, be a Subject Matter Expert, and support them.

• Someone who believes in minor incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring.

• A keen eye for quality about following and establishing good coding practices and improving code coverage.

• Good stakeholder management and ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders.

Bonus Skills

• It is good to have Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies.

• Web application security best practices and knowledge of common application security vulnerabilities XSS, SQL injection, etc.

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