About the Company I Dream . Do . Deliver.

Merkle 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 company’s 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 performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With 12,000 employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Merkle is a dentsu company.

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The Opportunity and Key Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer on our Technology Team, you will help us support and innovate bespoke platforms that support application and middleware integration 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. As with all our team members, you’ll 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.

Skills & Expertise

• 4+ years of experience in software development; demonstrating successful design, build, rollout and ongoing delivery of business-critical consumer-facing applications starting from raw business requirements.
• Experience with languages like Python, Nodejs, and JavaScript.
• Professional experience using application frameworks (Django, FastAPI, or Flask are ideal, but others are acceptable also) to build high-traffic websites, applications, and services.
• Professional experience with JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces or UI components (React is ideal, but others like Angular and Vue.js are good also)
• Experience with any SQL-based RDBMS and no-SQL database like MongoDB.
• Good to have proficiency in managing and consulting clients for their business problems.
• Experience using and deploying services on Cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Docker.
• Experience using serverless technologies is a plus.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Knowledge of pragmatic engineering practices like iterative releases, test-driven development, CICD, and the use of version control systems (Git/GitHub/Bitbucket is our primary system).
• Microservices architecture experience is a plus.