

Job Summary:
As a Back-end Golang Developer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our back-end infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for crafting scalable, secure, and robust APIs and products that meet our high standards of performance and reliability. Your expertise in Golang and profound understanding of software engineering principles will be critical in building solutions that drive our company's success.
Responsibilities:
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, product managers, and designers, to understand project requirements and contribute to technical discussions.
● Design, develop, and implement high-quality Golang-based back-end systems and applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
● Create and maintain APIs that enable seamless integration with various platforms and services.
● Utilize best practices in software development, testing, version control, and deployment to ensure the delivery of top-notch products.
● Optimize existing code and database queries to improve overall system performance and response times.
● Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to maintain code quality and consistency.
● Implement security best practices in Golang development to safeguard sensitive data and prevent security vulnerabilities.
● Proficiently use Goroutines and Channels to handle concurrent operations and enhance system efficiency.
● Employ Go's built-in testing and benchmarking tools to ensure robustness and optimize performance.
● Implement caching strategies and data storage solutions tailored to specific project requirements.
● Develop RESTful APIs adhering to API design principles and standards.
● Implement logging and monitoring systems to facilitate efficient debugging and monitoring of applications.
● Integrate third-party libraries and APIs to enhance application functionality.
● Leverage Go's interfaces and struct composition to build modular and extensible codebases.
● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in Golang and related technologies, recommending suitable technologies and methodologies to enhance development processes.
● Mentor junior developers, sharing your expertise and providing guidance to help them grow professionally.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
● Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on back-end development using Golang.
● Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality APIs and products in a production environment.
● Strong knowledge of Golang and its core libraries, with the ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
● Experience with Go frameworks and proficiency in building RESTful APIs.
● Extensive experience with various database systems, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Graph, or NoSQL databases, and proficiency in writing optimized queries.
● Solid understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns, including microservices architecture.
● Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience deploying applications in a cloud environment.
● Experience with containerization technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus.
● Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
● Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Join our dynamic team and help shape the future of our innovative products and APIs with your deep expertise and passion for back-end development in Golang. We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and a stimulating work environment where your skills and contributions will be highly valued. Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

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MUST HAVE - SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Around 4 +years of overall software development experience.
- Around 3 years of expertise in Go Language (aka GoLang) and SQL, with skills in data retrieval and manipulation.
- 3+ years of experience with JavaScript, including expertise in leveraging libraries like jQuery and Bootstrap, and proficiency in customizing CSS for styling and layout management.
- Experience in developing and managing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
- Development experience in a Linux/Unix environment, coupled with proficiency in bash scripting and Linux commands, provides a significant edge.
- Willingness to learn Perl as needed to migrate or support existing Perl applications.
- Currently a hands-on software developer, actively writing code and contributing to software development projects.
- Experience with tools and pipelines such as Rally, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, etc. is desirable.
- Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, multi-tasking, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential.
- Self-starter with good communication skills, fluent in English (written and verbal).
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies or skills is a must.
- Expertise with the RedHat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Expertise with Kubernetes.
- Expertise in IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, Go
- Experience in Infrastructure provisioning, monitoring and Ops
- Expertise working with Docker or similar container technologies.
Location : Chennai
Years of Experience : 4 to 8 years +

Roles and Responsibilities
- Ability to work on diverse backend stack such as Node JS, Java, Express JS
- Ability to work on diverse frontend stack such as React JS, Angular 6/7/8/9, HTML5, CSS3
- Ability to deliver quick POC’s using cutting edge technologies.
- Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
- Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
- Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications. Analysing and resolving technical and application problems.
- Ability to debug application.
- Should have complete knowledge on developing RESTful Services.
- Should be able to also work in agile development methodology.
Competency Requirements
- Experience in NodeJS, Java and development using AngularJS / ReactJS
- Experience in front end frameworks such as Angular.js, React.js, Bootstrap, Foundation etc
- Experience in client/server application development
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of unit testing theory
- Knowledge of AWS cloud
- Experience in Java, Python and Go will be added advantage

- Strong understanding and development experience with Golang.
- Good experience with programming languages like Java or Python(anyone of them).
- Should have experience in C & C++ programming.
- Has built basic Docker containers and hands on experience on Kubernetes.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure or AWS.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Exposed into IOT domain and its protocols.
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills.


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

- Must be from good companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic.
- Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise Go Langauge
- Experience building microservices.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
- Good knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure Proficient with RDBMS


Roles & Responsibilities:
- Excellent problem-solving & analytical skills & OO principles
- Solid understanding of the data structure & algorithms.
- Expert knowledge with any one of the Javascript Framework such as Node Js.
- Any additional experience with Java or python, GoLang would be nice to have.
- Experience working with SQL database like MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience working with NoSQL databases like mongoDB, couchbase would be nice to have
- Working experience with cache like redis, mem cached or elasticache would be nice to have
- Working experience with Message Queues would be a great advantage.
- Experience with deployment & AWS would be nice to have
- Ability to do in depth analysis or problem statement or use case & Build robust & scalable architecture
- Logging & monitoring of the production system in real time
- Lead a team of 2-4 team members & make sure team practices defined coding practices across the project.
- Hands on programming skills.
- Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
- Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github





- A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering.
- 2-4 years of experience in software product development.
- Excellent in Data structure, Algorithms & Problem-solving skills.
- Should be willing to code in Node.js/Java/Python/ROR/Golang
- Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
- Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.
- Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
- Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Participating in all phases of the development and maintenance lifecycle, focusing on speed and efficiency
- Planning and implementing model data structures for scalability
- Working on the maintenance or enhancement of existing data structures
- Designing REST APIs which will be used by multiple clients
What you need to have:
- B.E./ B.Tech/ MCA
- Have experience of building large scale & complex systems with low latency and high availability.
- Have strong experience of working with design patterns & REST APIs.
- Have strong experience of working with Go routines.
- Knowledge of static code analysis tools.
- Must have strong experience with Build and Release management, Agile processes and Estimations.
- Strong understanding of implementing server-side code and designing the data architecture using modern web frameworks.
- Strong understanding of designing database schema.
- Should know about micro-services.
- Writing highly optimised code on server.
- Should be a fast learner and go-getter without any fear of failing.
- Willingness to learn new technologies.
- Experience with popular Golang frameworks like Revel.
- Know how of HTML / PHP.

