Technical Engineer – Problem Setter (Programming ) – Internship

About Company :

HackerEarth is an AI-powered developer assessment software that helps companies accurately measure a developer’s skills through online coding tests. It takes a skill-based approach to assessment, allowing companies to automatically generate standardized tests based on various skills and then accurately measure the developer’s performance on those skills.

HackerEarth also has a community version of the product that is used by developers across the globe, to assess their coding skills, become better at it and measure their true potential. They do it by solving coding challenges across different topics/skills and by participating in online competitions/hackathons. We have a thriving community of 6 million+ developers.

Job Description :

We are seeking a motivated and creative Technical Content Engineer – Intern to join our team for a six-month internship. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing technical content, problems, challenges, and assessments to evaluate the skills and competencies of candidates across various domains, including Data structures and Algorithms, Programming, Full Stack, Data Science, Machine Learning and more.

We are currently looking for an experienced, self-driven, and curious Programming Problem Setter to join our passionate and innovative team. You will have the freedom to provide meaningful insights and explain data models to our clients is appetizing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Problem setting team at HackerEarth creates new questions for public/private hackathons/challenges and for our technical assessment product
• Create problems around data structures, algorithms, maths across various difficulty levels.
• Create real-life programming questions and test problems created by other problem setters.
• Test problems created by other problem setters
• Review HackeEarth’s existing question bank for technical errors (if any) and ensure that they follow suitable guidelines
• Add code stub (partial codes) to code editor of the problems which helps candidates to focus on writing the logic part for solving that particular problem rather than syntax
• Respond to queries/suggestions/issues from candidates solving problems on HackerEarth platform.
• Work closely with the tech doc team to remove context or grammar ambiguities from questions.

Required skills

• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and maths.
• Excellent profile on some of the online judges (HackerEarth, HackerRank, Codeforces, Codechef, SPOJ etc.)
• Candidates with experience in creating or testing problems for online Judges will be preferred.