Lead Backend Engineer

Company: Hackerrank

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Business Type: Startup

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Series D+

Industry: Tech

Salary Range: ₹ 1-1 Lacs PA

Job Description

Role is onsite job. Working on Hybrid Model. Experience in Ruby is mandatory for the Role. You will be working on: 1. 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 2. Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables 3. Lead technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting 4. 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. 5. Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in architecture and design discussions 6. Set up solid processes and practices around code quality, conventions, and standards 7. Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Debts 8. Leading and Contributing towards organization-wide tech initiatives 9. Mentoring Interns and Senior engineers 10. Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives. We are looking for: 1. Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions 2. Extensive experience in building web based products 3. Experience of leading a small team 4. Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences. 5. Overall of 6+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails 6. Expertise in Database modelling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries 7. Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows 8. Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems 9. A keen eye for quality with regard to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage, 10. Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders