Senior Frontend Engineer

HackerRank
Hybrid in Santa Clara, CAPosted 23 January 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p class="p1">HackerRank helps thousands of companies like NVIDIA<strong> </strong>and<strong> </strong>Amazon hire developers based on their skills vs. pedigree, and also nurtures a community of millions of developers to upskill themselves to become next-gen developers.</p> <p class="p1">The people at HackerRank care deeply about their work and have an extremely intense work ethic. In many companies, speed & quality is a tradeoff. At HackerRank, it’s not -- we expect you to ship in about half the time that most competent people think is possible while maintaining a standard of quality you’d proudly sign your name on. The only way to make this happen is if you truly love your craft and are deeply committed to growth.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Senior Frontend Engineer</strong>, 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.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Building uniform software front-end components that are pluggable and can be used across the organizations for various offerings.</li> <li>Understanding key web performance metrics for the product and strive to improve it regularly</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Collaborating with the engineers across the team; for organization-wide initiatives, with the mission to improve software quality and user experience regularly</li> <li>Mentoring budding Engineers and Interns</li> </ul> <h2><strong>You will thrive in this role if</strong></h2> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>You have a track record of working in an ambiguous environment and can drive and navigate the complexity and deliver quality user experiences.</li> <li>You are passionate about solving customer problems and go deep trying to understand and empathize on customer challenges.</li> <li>You have a very high bar on quality.</li> <li>You are AI Native and fully embrace the use of AI tools in your day to day job.</li> <li>You have a great sense of modern design patterns and strive for pixel-perfect designs.</li> <li>You have sensitivity to the implications of integrity breaches on customers, candidates, and the platform’s reputation.</li> <li>You have the ability to spot subtle anomalies, patterns of misuse, or suspicious behavior in assessment data.</li> <li>You have the patience to methodically investigate potential issues without jumping to conclusions.</li> <li>You have the ability to anticipate threats (e.g., misuse of LLMs or cheating tools) before they become widespread.</li> <li>You have the ability to design preventive solutions rather than reacting only after an incident.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What you bring</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Strong and self-motivated ind ... (truncated, view full listing at source)