Senior Engineering Manager

Hybrid in Bangalore · Hybrid in Bengaluru · 3+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

As an Engineering Manager on the Assessment Platform team, you will lead the technical vision and execution for the systems that power assessments on HackerRank.
This includes enabling candidates to work on real-world applications running on dedicated VMs with an online ADE built by HackerRank for concurrencies of up to 100K candidates.
You will partner with product teams across HackerRank to embed solutions into every product, drive the roadmap, and build a high-performing, growth-oriented team.

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.

8+ years of software development experience, including 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.