About the role
HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next.
Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills.
People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards.
About the role
This is a senior IC role for a backend specialist who can alternate between two operating modes: (1) shaping platforms that many product teams build on, and (2) diving deep with a team to crack a hard, high-stakes technical problem. You will also build AI-native capabilities into our platform (LLM orchestration, evaluation, cost and latency controls, guardrails), build novel systems, and raise the reliability, performance, and developer experience across services.
You will partner across multiple product groups, write crisp technical strategy, and be the engineer others look to for judgment, taste, and depth.
What you will do
- Align engineering roadmap with business outcomes. Translate company goals and customer needs into a technical roadmap. Communicate trade-offs and decisions in plain language
- Design and evolve core platforms for APIs, data, and AI that are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-aware ( thousands of concurrent assistant sessions, bursty traffic).
- Embed AI as a first-class concern: request orchestration, evaluation harnesses, guardrails and safety, prompt and data governance.