Lead Software Engineer - App Crawling

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

Are you passionate enough to be a crucial part of a highly analytical and scalable user engagement platform?

Are you ready learn new technologies and willing to step out of your comfort zone to explore and learn new skills?

If so, this is an opportunity for you to join a high-functioning team and make your mark on our organization!

The Impact you will create in the Job:

• Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute.
• Leverage the power of Kubernetes to maintain clusters running inside VPC's across the world.
• Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients.
• Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds.
• Use AWS products extensively across our services such as Kinesis Data Streams, Lambda, SQS etc. that form an integral part of our scalable and robust infrastructure.
• As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development, technical leadership, and seamless collaboration with all functions.
• You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
• You will get an opportunity to work with some of the best talent in the country while learning from various highly-functional teams in the company.
• Plan and execute the roadmap with the engineering team to build and deliver next-generation systems.
• You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.

What we look for?

• 4-7 years’ experience in full stack Python development
• Very strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of a relevant and globally supported framework- both front-end and back-end, if necessary, for example - Angular, React, Vue, or Django/Flask.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
• Proven experience on design and implementation of the overall web and database architecture and updated knowledge on the latest practices and associated versions.
• Ensuring the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment.
• Familiarity with Server management and deployment on AWS/GCE.
• Sound knowledge of CSS pre-processors, bundlers, and associated languages/syntaxes/libraries like Sass, Less, and webpack
• Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests.

What’s in it for you?

• Immense growth, continuous learning and deliver the best to the top-notch brands
• Work with some of the most innovative brains
• Opportunity to explore your entrepreneurial mind-set
• Open culture where your creative bug gets activated.

If this sounds like a company you would like to be a part of, and a role you would thrive in, please don’t hold back from applying! We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success!

So let’s converse! Our inquisitive nature is all keen to know more about you.