MERN Developer
dentsu · Posted Sep 29
Integrated advertising, marketing, media, and business transformation services
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About the role
This role sits within the Merkle (dentsu) engineering team and is focused on developing the required software features with timely delivery in compliance with the company's performance and quality standards. The work centers on the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) with TypeScript, along with cloud, microservices, GraphQL, RESTful web services and CI/CD practices. The engineer will participate in requirements analysis, development, unit testing and documentation, and will mentor junior Software Engineers.
What you will do
- Works independently with a broader overview on the project
- Participates in communications with partners and clients, when needed.
- Understands and follows the release processes in the company.
- Participates in requirements analysis, development, unit testing and documentation.
- Writes quality code to fit unique customer needs and configurations.
- Troubleshoots and debugs (with some guidance from senior team members if needed)
- Provides mentoring/guidance to junior Software Engineers
- Delivers training and participates in knowledge sharing.
- Achieves better understanding of the company platform and processes and suggests improvements.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience
- Strong in front or back end of MERN stack (Mongo DB + Mongoose, Express, React, Node JS) using Typescript and some knowledge of the other technologies in the stack.
- Demonstrate understanding of Solid Principle.
- Experience of writing good unit tests.
- Experience of implementation using cloud.
- Basic knowledge of microservices architecture, GraphQL, RESTful Webservices, NoSQL & SQL.
- Exposure to Docker & containerization, CI/CD pipeline design & build.
- Basic awareness of event driven architecture, Kafka.
- Use of tools such as JIRA, Git, GitHub.
- Good Communication skills.
- Ability to participate in team discussions.
- Positive attitude, willingness to learn and self-motivated.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Azure cloud.
- Experience with Serverless.
- Experience in Terraform.
- Experience in Mongo DB
- Tools like Babel, Webpack, NestJS, Jest, Lint, Helm to support build of Node applications.
- Experience in orchestration tools such as Nodemation (N8n).
- Experience in GraphQL tools such as ApolloGraph or Wundergraph.
- Experience with troubleshooting using Grafana / Loki
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About dentsu
Dentsu Group Inc. is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations, delivering comprehensive media, customer experience management (CXM), and creative services. Operating globally across approximately 120 countries, the agency combines deep human insights, creative innovation, and advanced data technologies to accelerate business growth. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Dentsu has a rich heritage of shaping the advertising and marketing industry since 1901.
- Industry
- Advertising
- Company size
- 67000+ employees
- Founded
- 1901-07-01
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2022-03-29Post Ipo
Leadership
Takeshi Sano
Representative Executive Officer, President & Global CEO
Yoshimasa Watahiki
Representative Executive Officer, EVP & Global Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Shigeki Endo
Executive Officer & Global CFO
Beth Ann Kaminkow
CEO, Dentsu Americas & Chief Global Client Officer
Yuichi Toyoda
CEO, Dentsu APAC
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