Senior Frontend Engineer

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 4+ 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.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 – $172,000, plus a target 10% annual bonus tied to individual and company performance. You will also receive equity (stock options) and a comprehensive package of cash and non-cash benefits.