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We are looking for a great Go developer who possesses a strong understanding of how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Go packages and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these Go packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.
Responsibilities
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Writing scalable, robust,, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
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Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
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Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture

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- 4+ years exp with solid backend/engineering experience.
- Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture.
- Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, a strong inclination for architecting at scale.
- Excellent technical design, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.
- Rapid prototyping worked on distributed systems at scale.
- Basic knowledge of SQL as well as NoSQL databases.
- Proficient in Golang, it's design, and concurrency patterns.



Location: Chennai
Requirements:



Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
- Strong OO design and coding skills using multiple stacks, and knowledge of the pros and cons of each
- 1+ years’ experience with Golang
- 6+ years application development experience
- Strong data design skills, using both SQL and NoSQL data stores
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
- Experience working with event based distributed systems
- Experience working with services in a Dockerized environment
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Redis, and/or PostgreSQL a plus
- Requires 6+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 2 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.


What are we looking for?
We are looking for hands-on coders who love what they do, have high attention to detail and are looking for challenging opportunities which involve building products from scratch. Someone who is proactive, and always keen to learn.
What will you be doing?
On a daily basis, some of your work will involve but is not limited to:
- Write clean, secure, and well-tested code
- Build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of the product
Work Culture at Merge:
Commitment to excellence - In every output, we produce as individuals and as a company, we have to strive for world-class quality. We’re making a change in the world. It will push us out of our comfort zones. We operate in a rapidly changing market and strive to deliver high-quality products faster than anyone else.
We get it done - We take ownership of what we do. Working here is about really, truly owning everything you do. There’s no such thing as “Not my job.” If you see a problem that needs solving, you can – and should – be the one to solve it
Requirements
Skills That Will Help You Excel At Merge
- You have 2 to 5 years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend systems
- Experience in two or more languages. Go, Node.js, Python, or Java would be ideal.
- You have experience in high-throughput distributed systems and microservices
- Experience with AWS and CI/CD workflow
- Driven, and passionate about building products
- You take ownership of your code
- You have good communication skills in English
- You are familiar with security best practices
Primary Responsibilities:
- Principal Engineers are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
- They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
- They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
- They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
- They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
- They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
- They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.
Experience or Skills Required:
- B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
- Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
- Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
- Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
- Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
- Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
- Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
- Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
- Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
- Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
- Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
- Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.



- Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
- Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
- Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python or Java
- Strong communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
- 2+ years of experience in product driven organization


Responsibilities:
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to
deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing and maintainability of
the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional
system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plan are in place and adheres to
great quality of code at all time.
• Active participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live
system.
• Verify user feedback in making system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers and other peer developers.
• Preparing technical training documents for onboarding new engineers.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience working on the server side.
Additional Requirements For Experienced Candidates:
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture and thorough understanding of
systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and inmemory
database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Competent with developing web apps in popular MVC frameworks (Django, RoR,
etc,).
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.


Current Opportunities:
Qualified Engineers will be hired against roles which includes Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, Data Science, Analytics, Enterprise & IOT Solutions, Wearable computing, multimedia systems,3GPP, 4G/5G, Network,Modem,protocols,RTL, PHY, Android/Tizen Platforms, Healthcare/Medical solutions, Natural Language Processing, Computer vision, Image Processing, Computer Architect.
EDUCATION
- Minimum 60% in BE, B.Tech, ME, M.Tech, PhD or MCA
Map Reduce, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Mahout, Fast Data Processing – Storm – Rules Engine – Drools
Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and performance optimization techniques
Hands on with Design, Coding, Debugging and Testing
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills; Team player.




