Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead the Assessment Platform engineering team, owning the technical vision, roadmap and execution for the systems that power HackerRank assessments, including online coding environments for up to 100K concurrent candidates.

What you'll do

• Own the vision and roadmap for the assessment platform, working closely with Product to shape priorities.
• Architect systems that reliably handle 100k+ concurrent users.
• Own delivery commitments and run the team's day-to-day execution using agile practices.
• Ensure operational excellence: reliability, incident response, security and privacy.
• Hire, mentor and grow engineers, and set clear career paths for each team member.
• Define how the team uses AI tools in development to improve quality and speed.
• Partner with Product, infrastructure and Security teams.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, secure distributed systems and large-scale web services.
• Strong technical leadership, with the ability to drive critical architecture discussions.
• Proven record of hiring, leading and mentoring technical teams and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Ruby or Node.js.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in at least one of AWS or GCP.
• Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling cloud IDEs, remote dev environments, or online coding platforms, with a developer-first mindset.
• Hands-on depth in containers, Kubernetes, and on-demand VM or sandboxed compute at scale.
• A track record of load testing, autoscaling, and capacity planning for spiky, event-driven traffic.
• Experience driving AI-assisted development practices across an engineering team.

Details

• Hybrid, based in Bangalore, India.