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Lead Engineer - Backend
HackerRank
posted 5mon ago
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Job Description
- As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal part in HackerRank s mission to Accelerate the World s Innovation
- You are excited to make an impact on the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired
- We re responsible for building the world s leading technical interview platform
- We believe in Extreme ownership and you ll have immense ownership both in terms of product and engineering
- Your work will have a direct impact on the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired
** This role will be onsite in Bangalore during the 1st and 3rd months of each quarter (Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, September, October, December) and is subject to change.
You will be working on:
- As a lead 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
- Lead 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 work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically.
- Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in architecture and design discussions
- Set up solid processes and practices around code quality, conventions, and standards
- Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Debts
- Leading and Contributing towards organization-wide tech initiatives
- Mentoring Interns and Senior engineers
- Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives.
We are looking for:
- Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
- Extensive experience in building web based products
- Experience of leading a small team
- Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences.
- Overall of 6+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
- Expertise in Database modelling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
- Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
- Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
- A keen eye for quality with regard to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage,
- Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
Nice to have (optional):
- Knowledge of the technical interview process and how roles like backend/frontend/DevOps engineers are vetted
- 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
Benefits & Perks:
- One-time home office set up stipend
- Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, Cleo, etc)
- Unlimited paid time off, paid leave for new parents, and flexible work hours
- Insurance for all employees (term life, personal accident, medical) along with medical insurance for their dependents
- Employee stock options, flexible work hours, and time off
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Functional Areas: Software/Testing/Networking
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Flexible timing
Monday to Friday
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