HackerRank is hiring a
Software Development Engineer II - Backend

Summary

Join our fast-growing engineering team as a full-time, 100% remote engineer and contribute to building AI-driven next-generation products and solutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will evaluate technologies, develop POCs, solve technical challenges, and propose innovative solutions for our technical and business problems.

Requirements

• Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to drive decisions independently
• Solid experience in building web based products
• Overall of 2+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably one of Ruby on Rails, NodeJS
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common 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 with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye to quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Evaluate technologies, develop POCs, solve technical challenges and propose innovative solutions for our technical and business problems
• Delight our stakeholders, customers, and partners by building high-quality, well-tested, scalable, and reliable business applications
• Architecting and developing applications and microservices using REST APIs, serverless, lambda, NodeJS, Docker, Kubernetes, CICD, and automation (Backend Engineers)
• Deliver high-quality product experiences to these personas -- in a quality-conscious manner and on a regular and predictable schedule — With a passion for quality and delivering well-tested and testable solutions
• Design and implement REST APIs
• Work in agile development environment, participate in code reviews
• Collaborate with remote development teams and cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Web front end development experience Good knowledge of javascript, HTML Good knowledge of AJAX and JSON, Built react components
• Integration experience

Benefits

• One-time home office set up stipend
• Monthly Remote Work Enablement Stipend
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• Wellbeing Benefits (Headspace, etc)
• Flexible 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