The Role
Design, develop, and maintain scalable systems at HackerEarth, ensuring high performance and collaborating with teams to innovate solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
HackerEarth is an AI-powered developer assessment software that helps companies accurately measure a developer’s skills through online coding tests. It takes a skill-based approach to assessment, allowing companies to automatically generate standardized tests based on various skills and then accurately measure the developer’s performance on those skills.
We proudly serve 1000+ customers across the globe with many of the fortune 1000 names in the list like Google, Walmart, Amazon, Barclays, GE, Siemens etc. We have assessed more than 2 million candidates, support 41 different programming languages, provide 8 different types of assessment techniques and enable assessments across 100+ different skills.
HackerEarth also has a community version of the product that is used by developers across the globe, to assess their coding skills, become better at it and measure their true potential. They do it by solving coding challenges across different topics/skills and by participating in online competitions/hackathons. We have a thriving community of 7 million+ developers.
Roles and responsibilities:
Qualifications and Requirements:
At HackerEarth, we value innovation, collaboration, and a growth mindset. If you thrive in a dynamic and challenging environment, and are passionate about building scalable systems that empower developers worldwide, we want to hear from you!
We proudly serve 1000+ customers across the globe with many of the fortune 1000 names in the list like Google, Walmart, Amazon, Barclays, GE, Siemens etc. We have assessed more than 2 million candidates, support 41 different programming languages, provide 8 different types of assessment techniques and enable assessments across 100+ different skills.
HackerEarth also has a community version of the product that is used by developers across the globe, to assess their coding skills, become better at it and measure their true potential. They do it by solving coding challenges across different topics/skills and by participating in online competitions/hackathons. We have a thriving community of 7 million+ developers.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Design, develop, deploy, and nurture robust and scalable systems that impact millions of developers globally.
- Take sole ownership of your product(s) - keep a keen eye out for bugs that might arise, ardently resolve them; make feature additions to your product; or sometimes, when you're feeling ambitious - rewrite the whole product from scratch! (Don't make this a habit though.)
- Get acclimatized to our tech stack, which is an ever-changing landscape. while True: unlearn() and relearn()
- Document your contributions - at HackerEarth we promote consuming content and even more so - producing it. Write a new post on our engineering blog every time you roll something out.Architect and develop distributed systems that handle high throughput and ensure seamless performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on architecting and developing distributed systems
- Proficiency in at least one programming language and framework
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Proven ability to handle high-pressure situations and effectively "firefight" when issues arise
- Experience in handling throughput ranging from hundreds to thousands of transactions per second
- Expertise in messaging systems (asynchronous and real-time)
- Proficient in working with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Knowledge of caching techniques and implementations
- Familiarity with telemetry, observability, and monitoring tools
- Skilled in estimation and handling ambiguity in complex projects
At HackerEarth, we value innovation, collaboration, and a growth mindset. If you thrive in a dynamic and challenging environment, and are passionate about building scalable systems that empower developers worldwide, we want to hear from you!
Top Skills
AWS
Messaging Systems
NoSQL
Programming Languages
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
HackerEarth is the most comprehensive developer assessment software that helps companies to accurately measure the skills of developers during the recruiting process. More than 1000 companies across the globe use HackerEarth to improve the quality of their engineering hires and reduce the time spent by recruiters on screening candidates. Over the years, we have also built a thriving community of 4.5M+ developers that come to HackerEarth to participate in hackathons and coding challenges to assess their skills and compete in the community.
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