Backend Developer

Back End Engineer – Job Description Our mission is to match every developer to the right job without any interviews.. The publicly accessible platform found at HackerRank.com is a community where coders go to compete for fun, education, prizes, and jobs. HackerRank for Work is our B2B enterprise product and is a set of tools for technical interviewing and assessment that sits on top of our platform. These tools simplify the interview process for any company that hires engineers. We're a 100+ member team across Bangalore & Palo Alto, CA, USA and our revenue is growing at 100% Q-o-Q. We have a database of 2M+ hackers across 31 countries and our customers include Facebook, VMWare, Bloomberg, Adobe, Flipkart, Twitter, Square, Quora, Airbnb, Yelp and many more! We have product-market fit and are looking to scale tremendously. Customer case studies can be found on our company site.   Experience in design and implementation of APIs. Strong coding, design, and architecture experience in any one programming language ecosystem (RoR, J2EE, Spring etc.,) is mandatory. Building, maintaining, and debugging distributed, web-based applications. Experience in building customer facing products is a big plus. Understand scalability and performance challenges. Ability to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Building highly concurrent and low latency systems. Experience in using various components of backend stack such as cache (Redis, Memcached), RDBMS, NoSQL DB, web server (Nginx, HAProxy), app server (Tomcat, Unicorn), CDN. Need to have basic knowledge of web dev - HTTP headers, session management, cookies, etc.     GET EXCITED. Because you're about to have a huge impact. HackerRank is growing fast and we're having a great time working together as we build! We're a fun, friendly, passionate bunch. And we’re looking for more smiling faces to come join us! The position is full-time and is based in Bangalore. Our office is in Koramangala, a short walk from the Forum mall (https://goo.gl/maps/NNcfWPCn16T2), smack in the middle of great restaurants, bars, and shopping.