About the Role
Title: Frontend Software Engineer (Remote)
Location: Remote within the United States
Job Description:
At HackerRank, we help over 2,500 of the most prestigious logos across industries find, hire, and upskill amazing developer talent using our SaaS-based Developer Skills Platform. We pioneered and continue to lead the developer skills market. At HackerRank, we are passionate about our mission to “Change the world to value skills over pedigree. This position is full-time and Remote within the United States.
As a Frontend Engineer, you will be pivotal in HackerRank’s mission to “Accelerate the World’s Innovation.” You are excited to impact the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired. We’re responsible for creating the world’s leading technical interview platform. We believe in “Extreme ownership,” and you’ll have immense ownership of products and engineering.
Your work will directly impact the lives of millions of developers as you build the platform for them to showcase their skills and get hired. You will be responsible for building systems that back the screen, interviews, and other product lines and building the best developer experience for each of our products. You’d be working on helping us scale our products to handle over 100K concurrent users to support significant country-wide remote hiring events. As part of this, you must also build a platform to provide world-class developer experience (Coding editor, Autocomplete, Linting, Ability to run code quickly, etc.) on the cloud at scale. Along with all of this, you will also be responsible for mentoring interns and delivering essential product and tech initiatives.
You will be working on:
- Partnering with product designers and product managers to build and improve workflows and user experience for various personas like Interviewer, Candidate, Recruiter, and Hiring Manager
- Building uniform software front-end components that are pluggable and can be used across the organizations for various offerings.
- Understanding key web performance metrics for the product and striving to improve it on a regular basis.
- Actively participate in setting up good standards and conventions for front-end engineering and also review code for quality. We believe a good code is like good karma; it goes a long way.
- Collaborating with the engineers across the team for organization-wide initiatives, with the mission to improve software quality and user experience on a regular basis
- Mentoring budding Engineers and Interns
We are looking for:
- Strong, self-motivated individuals looking to learn and contribute to key product and tech initiatives.
- Overall 2+ years of expertise in JavaScript-based UI Frameworks, with a strong preference for ReactJS
- We also expect you to be good with fundamental Javascript, someone who is willing to admit I don’t know Javascript – https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
- Good hands-on practical knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Experience with frontend toolings like Webpack, babel, etc
- Hands-on experience in frontend debugging and testing
- Keen attention to quality, someone who has set or used good coding standards for front-end development
- Good knowledge of various browser environments, compatibility, and any experience in building a multiscreen app is a bonus
- Eye for detail and metrics-driven, especially around Web Performance and Optimization
Nice to have:
- Fullstack experience is a plus (Ruby)
- Understanding of frontend security
- Exposure to other frontend frameworks besides ReactJS
- Knowledge of backend APIs and technologies
- Exposure to typescript is a plus
- Experience in a fast-paced environment