Software Design Engineer - Intern - Pune @ Merkle Sokrati

Job Description

At Merkle Sokrati you will learn how to build some of the most beautiful frontends with insane performance and User Experience. You would get to look at the entire User experience design process upclose, understand concepts like, Mobile First, Heuristic UX Tests, Experience Experimentation etc. Get your hands dirty with, powerful frontend frameworks like React, Vue, work on JAM Stack as well with Gatsby, Next.js. Use techniques like GraphQL, web components, web packs, CDN s, and everything that makes a good testable, performant, web frontend. Monitor for performance, we take every millisecond saved seriously. Learn how high-scale software design is done and then deploy it to production.

Nothing at Merkle Sokrati is small. We start with an induction process which demands you to go through all phases of Agile development, right from Sprint Planning, to Requirement Walkthrough, Daily Scrums, Peer Code Reviews, Automated Tests, Sprint Demos, UAT with the client and finally Deployment to production. You are expected to be able to support your own development in Production as well, that s real Devops for you. You will get to work firsthand, with our Multi-cluster deployments using cloud platforms like AWSGCP. Yes we stress a lot on sense of ownership in everything we do.
To achieve any of this you need to understand the technology but more importantly you should be willing to learn at a very fast pace and be a Team player not a lone-wolf. Not many interns can say been there, done that , but post this program you will.

What would your day look like:
Implement solutions for broadly defined problems

• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Be part of daily scrums, ideate and brainstorm solutions with Managers, Mentors and show off your convincing skills.
• Do peer code reviews, write automation tests, we have OCD when it comes to quality.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Discuss new ideas in weekly tech forum with your peers and mentors.

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