Senior Frontend Engineer

Job description

At HackerRank, we are on a mission to change the world to value skills over pedigree. We are a high-performing, mission-driven team that truly, madly, deeply cares about what we do. We don’t see velocity and quality as tradeoffs; both matter. If you take pride in high-impact work and thrive in a driven team, HackerRank is where you belong.

About the team:

The Integrity team focuses on ensuring that customers can rely on the results of HackerRank assessments without having to worry about any integrity issues. For online assessments, integrity of the assessment session is generally a major concern for customers, especially now, with easy availability of LLMs and specific tools built on top of it that focus on getting an advantage during online assessments. This team builds generic platform solutions that can be integrated into any HackerRank products.

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 our core integrity solutions that are used across all of our products.

About the role:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will work on building a platform to provide customers trustable integrity solutions across all of the HackerRank products,  while also ensuring a world-class developer experience. These solutions also need to be built so they can handle a scale of over 100K concurrent users.

What you’ll do:

• Partnering with product designers and product managers to build and improve workflows and user experience for various personas like Candidate, Recruiter, Interviewer, 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 strive to improve it regularly
• Actively participate in setting up good standards and conventions for front-end engineering and also review code for quality. We believe 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 regularly
• Mentoring budding Engineers and Interns

You will thrive in this role if:

• You excel at being a product engineer who doesn’t just convert requirements into code, but excels in understanding the problem being solved and can provide feedback and suggestions to improve the customer experience.
• You have a track record of working in an ambiguous environment and can drive and navigate the complexity and deliver quality user experiences.
• You are passionate about solving customer problems and go deep trying to understand and empathize on customer challenges.
• You have a very high bar on quality.
• You are AI Native and fully embrace the use of AI tools in your day to day job.
• You have a great sense of modern design patterns and strive for pixel-perfect designs.
• You have sensitivity to the implications of integrity breaches on customers, candidates, and the platform’s reputation.
• You have the ability to spot subtle anomalies, patterns of misuse, or suspicious behavior in assessment data.
• You have the patience to methodically investigate potential issues without jumping to conclusions.
• You have the ability to anticipate threats (e.g., misuse of LLMs or cheating tools) before they become widespread.
• You have the ability to design preventive solutions rather than reacting only after an incident.

What you bring:

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, looking to learn and contribute to key product and tech initiatives.
• Overall 3+ years of expertise in JavaScript-based UI Frameworks such as ReactJS
• We also expect you to be good with fundamental Javascript.
• Good hands-on practical knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience with frontend toolings like Webpack, babel, etc.
• Hands-on experience in frontend debugging and unit 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
• AI Native way of working where you fully embrace AI assistance in your day to day workflow.
• Eye for detail and metrics-driven especially around Web Performance and Optimization

Bonus Skills:

• Understanding of frontend security
• Exposure to other frontend frameworks besides ReactJS
• Understanding of backend APIs and technologies
• Exposure to typescript is a plus

Want to learn more about HackerRank? Check out HackerRank.com to explore our products, solutions and resources, and dive into our story and mission here.

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