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Lead Backend Engineer

Location
Bengaluru, KA, IN
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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About the role

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

About HackerRank

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