Firefox OS developer

Description

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Software Developer to automate our internal workflows, develop tools for internal use that are used by our development team.

We follow the following practices: unit testing, continuous integration CI, continuous deployment CD, and DevOps.

We have codebases in go, java, python, vue js, bash and support the development team that develops C code.

You need to like challenges, explore new fields and find solutions for problems.

You will be responsible for coordinating, automating, and validating internal workflows and ensuring operational stability, and system reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years in professional software development
• Solid understanding of software development patterns like SOLID, GoF or similar.
• Experience automating deployments for different kinds of applications.
• Strong understanding of Git version control, merge/rebase strategies, tagging.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment orchestration (e.g., docker compose).
• Solid scripting experience (bash, or similar).
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, and probing tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, blackbox exporter).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in SRE
• Proficiency in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Familiarity with build tools like Make, CMake, or similar.
• Exposure to artifact management systems (e.g., aptly, Artifactory, Nexus).
• Experience deploying to Linux production systems with service uptime guarantees.

Responsibilities

• Develop new services that are needed by SRE, Field or Development Team by adopting unit testing, agile, clean code practices.
• Drive the CI/CD pipeline and maintain the workflows, using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins
• Deploy the services and implement and refine the automation for different environments.
• Operate: The services that the SRE Team developed.
• Automate release pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab.
• Version control: Manage and enforce Git best practices, branching strategies (e.g., Git Flow), tagging, and release versioning.
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to align on release timelines and feature readines
• Success Metrics
• Achieve >99% service up time with minimal rollbacks.
• Delivery in time, hold timelines.

Benefits

Enjoy a great environment, great people, and a great package

• Stock Appreciation Rights - Generous pre series-B stock options
• Generous Gratuity Plan - Long service compensation far exceeding Indian statutory requirements 
• Health Insurance - Premium health insurance for employee, spouse and children 
• Working Hours - Flexible working hours with sole focus on enabling a great work environment 
• Work Environment - Work with top industry experts in an environment that fosters co-operation, learning and developing skills 
• Make a Difference - We're here because we want to make an impact on the world - we hope you do too!

• 2-5 years of software development experience especially in web development with open source technologies like PHP, Linux, etc.
• Good experience in object-oriented programming/modular programming.
• Strong understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks.
• Exposure to PHP framework Laravel is mandatory.
• Knowledge of Flutter is a plus.
• Knowledge of fundamentals like traits, namespace, OOPS, and interfaces will be preferred.
• Ability to do hands-on coding and pro-actively drive emphasis on quality, maintainable code.
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly and effectively.
• Well-informed about all the latest technologies and developments in the industry.
• Self-motivated and Self-Starter - Looking for candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction.
• Attention to detail and ability to conceptualize a concept.

We’re seeking a talented developer to help build our platform from the ground up. As a critical member of a dynamic and highly-motivated team, you will take a critical developers role, and will be responsible for designing & coding new functionality from scratch.

Looking for folks with a hacker mindset

• Write “clean” and well-designed & scalable code
• Maniacal about creating flawless & defect-free delivery
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Maintain a positive and healthy work environment within the team and have fun while doing it
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle right from requirements through till deployment

Built a collaboration platform - messaging, voice, video - to be used in mobile apps, web etc. 

● Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes deployments

• Join the product research team to develop the leading Geodata and GeoAI platform in Hong Kong
• Be part of the product team to develop web front-end interface with a focus of data and AI application
• Develop automated software in Arical data and AI pipeline
• On job training for rapid product development cycle
• Will have to deliver reliable and maintainable code
• Use analytical skills effectively for hands on problem solving
• Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
• Work with UI/UX designer

• Degree or above in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields
• Coursework in programming, data science, machine learning, AI and databases
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Proficiency with client-side scripting and database technology

• Knowledge of one or more system programming languages (Python, C++, Java, etc)
• Knowledge of MongoDB and other NoSQL data stores such as Redis
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross-browser optimization
• Proficiency with one or more front-end web development framework (Bootstrap, Angular, React)
• Knowledge of one or more web-scripting languages (PHP, Rudy, Node.js etc)
• Knowledge of web-scraping library (Beautiful Soup, web driver etc)
• Knowledge of API packaging and Docker deployment
• Knowledge of app development
• Knowledge of UI/UX design

• Work from home

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!