Merkle

About Us:

Merkle, a dentsu company, is a leading data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The company’s heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive hyperpersonalized marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in consulting, creative, media, analytics, data, identity, CX/commerce, technology, and loyalty & promotions drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With more than 14,000 employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. 

Role Description:

Ensure successful project completion by understanding client expectations, overseeing operations on key projects and coaching a team of 7 - 10. It's an opportunity to work with top 10 market research firms, or large corporations, leverage Ugam's proven project management frameworks, and collaborate with some of the most experienced in market research

Key Responsibilities: AEM Developer:

• Experience implementing Adobe AEM (AEM 6.4 or higher)

• Design, develop and support AEM content fragments, integrations, and applications

• Experience with secure coding practices

• Experience implementing web content management systems in a large corporate environment.

• Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns

• Excellent estimation abilities in scoping work in a highly complex environment

• Experience with dispatcher, caching

• Experience with OSGI Bundles.

• Hands on experience with Java/J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, CRXDE, JCR, sling models, sling servlets, OSGI configurations,

• AEM dispatcher configuration, workflows, content fragment models, dynamic templates, and components creation.

• OSGI Architecture Sling Servlets and Sling Framework

• Strong experience in Adobe CQ5/AEM6.x Content Management (CMS)

• Experience of creating OSGI bundles, AEM Templates/Components, Workflow

• Identifying and documenting functional and technical requirements.

• Good in Java/J2EE skills and OOPS with proficiency design patterns

• Good understanding and work experience of Java Frameworks (like Struts, Spring etc.) and knowledge of CRX and Apache Sling.

• Should have experience in designing modules, templates and components.

• Exposure to more than one end to end implementation on AEM Qualifications AEM Certification is an add on 

What are we looking for?

At least 3 years of experience in AEM Knowledge and experience in Sling Model, JAVA, Workflow, Sites, Assets, AEM Cloud, Servlets, OSGI Configurations, content fragment, Workflow, etc.

We thank you for sending us your profile & details for this role. If your profile gets shortlisted for roles with us, we look forward to a conversation with you to learn about more of what makes you awesome!

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure

• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage

• Incidence management and root cause analysis

• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools

• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

• Be involved in full-fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.
• You will use every aspect of computer science you have learned or heard of. We believe in experimenting to facilitate more efficient systems.
• You will become an owner in no time. The company aspires in creating effective owners.
• You will participate in every aspect of Software Life Cycle. From inception, to design, to coding, to testing, to deployment and maintenance.

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!