Company Description
About Merkle
Merkle, a dentsu company, is a leading data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The companys heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive hyper-personalized marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in consulting, creative, media, analytics, data, identity, CX/commerce, technology, and loyalty & promotions drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With more than 14,000 employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, contact Merkle at
1-877-9-Merkle or visit. .
Job Description
As a Software Engineer on our Product Team, you will help us support and innovate our platforms that support web sites and media operations for major companies. We firmly believe in the DevOps mentality and are looking for Engineers who not only want to build platforms, but also the tooling and systems that allow us to efficiently test and operate them. You can expect to be hands-on in supporting and debugging our systems, and you will also need to understand how our systems are used to ensure we build what the business needs. We are distributed globally and operate as remote-first team. As with all our team members, youll be afforded the opportunity to continuously learn, and to practice sharing that expertise with other team members in a variety of structured and informal teaching forums.
Responsibilities
Building, Delivering, and Operating Our Platforms
Working inside of a team to implement solutions that best meet our users needs and will be easy to operate
Following best practices, leveraging technology and frameworks effectively, and ensuring work fits well into its application/system
Monitoring our applications and systems and investigating issues that arise
Understanding the impact your work can have on the health of our systems and acting to minimize risks
Communicating Inside the Team
Communicating with Technology Team members to facilitate implementation of your work
Presenting materials that help advance and inform the team
Leading by Example
Working with fellow engineers to cover knowledge gaps and identify solutions to problems
Demonstrating and modelling proactive and thoughtful identification of issues and opportunities for technical improvements
Qualifications
A minimum of two years of experience in software development; demonstrating successful design, build, rollout and ongoing delivery of business-critical applications and data pipelines starting from raw business requirements.
Successful experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience with languages like Python, JavaScript and Ruby.
Professional experience using web application frameworks (Django, Flask, Express, and Rails are ideal, but others are acceptable also) to build high-traffic websites, applications, and services.
Experience using orchestration frameworks (Airflow is ideal, but others like Azure Data Factory are acceptable also)
Professional experience with JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces or UI components (React is ideal, but others like Vue.js are good also)
Experience developing the front end of applications including an understanding of CSS and compilation patterns (Sass, Webpack, etc.)
Familiar with containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration services like Kubernetes
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure services for application operations
AWS: Lambdas, S3, RDS, IAM, KMS, etc.
Azure: App Functions, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Authentication/AD, etc.
Knowledge of pragmatic engineering practices like iterative releases, test-driven development, continuous integration, and the use of version control systems (Git/GitHub is our primary system).
Understanding of secure application development practices.
Experience enabling operational tooling for applications (build/deployment/configuration, logging, monitoring/alerting)
Experience constructing automated test cases with testing frameworks
Non-trivial experience with any SQL-based RDBMS (PostgreSQL experience is especially useful).
Experience with NoSQL data stores (Redis) and asynchronous task processing a plus.
Experience with digital marketing or advertising a plus.
Microservices architecture experience is a plus.
Additional Information,