At HackerRank, we are on a mission to change the world to value skills over pedigree. We are a high-performing, mission-driven team that truly, madly, deeply cares about what we do. We don’t see velocity and quality as tradeoffs - both matter. If you take pride in high-impact work and thrive in a driven team, HackerRank is where you belong.
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 team's go-to person 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.
- Participate in hiring initiatives and promote contributions, accomplishments, and victories to help the organization build a top-quality team.
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:
- Experience in at least one Frontend framework, preferably React.js.
- 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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