Software Developer

Primary Skill

• UI (Vue JS or Angular JS)
• Server Side (Java or Python) & AWS serverless framework.
• Must have hands-on experience on serverless framework.
• Experience on AWS.
• Must have good experience on AWS (Overall knowledge, EC2 Volume, EC2 SecurityGroup, EC2 AMI, Lambda, S3, AWSbackup, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, IAM, SecretsManager, StepFunction, CostExplorer, KMS, VPC/Subnet)
• Working experience on development/staging/production servers.
• Good testing and verification skills
• Knowledge on SSL certificates and encryption.

Secondary Skill

• Scripting using Python
• Good to have knowledge of identity management.

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and writing communication skills.
• Strong Analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Should have skills to understand and analysis customers requirements and expectations.
• Must have experience in interaction with customer
• Work experiences with international cross-culture teams (Good to have)

We are looking for a talented and motivated Full Stack Developer to join our development team in India who will be responsible for designing, developing, testing and debugging responsive web and mobile applications for the company. Using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and Coffee Script, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional design.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project requirements)
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• Familiarity with development aiding tools (such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc)
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Familarity with Heroku

We are looking for a passionate full-stack developer to be responsible for all platform-related duties, from developing designs for complicated applications to analyzing code. The key responsibilities include writing and testing code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services, optimizing applications, ensuring UI/UX feasibility, and implementing API designs and architecture.

You should know python and use server-side logic. Ultimately, you'll build highly responsive web applications that align with our business needs.

Selected day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Writing effective, scalable, and sustainable code
2. Developing back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
3. Integrating user-facing elements into applications
4. Testing and debugging programs
5. Improving the functionality of existing systems
6. Implementing security and data protection solutions
7. Assessing and prioritizing feature requests
8. Ensuring the feasibility of UI/UX designs
9. Coordinating with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Knowledge of AWS Cloud (EC2,S3,Lambda,SES) 
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache, Nginx, Tomcat) and UI/UX design
  Knowledge of code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN).
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind
• Degree in Computer Science, or relevant field

• Benefits
• Being part of a startup that’s turning out to be a game-changer, you will be blessed with:
• Freedom to try new things.
• 2 Saturday’s off.
• Dress code – Casual.
• Take-it-when-you-need-it vacation.
• No. of working days:- 05

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!