Web Developer

Merck

(Rahway, New Jersey)

Full Time Travel Required

Job Posting Details

About Merck

Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Responsibilities

- Writing modular, scalable, testable HTML, CSS and Javascript code that is clean and standards-compliant and works with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks
- Providing solutions with long-term maintainability and limited technical debt
- Applying knowledge of cloud, APIs and browser feature support to design cross browser/device compatible solutions
- Evaluating new libraries, frameworks and development standards to determine if they are the right fit for Merck
- Leveraging an automated DevOps approach to build, deploy and support projects using modern tools such as Github, AWS, Rails and Chef
- Designing robust interfaces to integrate a variety of systems and technologies to solve business problems and create scalable solutions
- Documenting architectures and developing strategic approaches to implement scalable, performant solutions from conceptual UX designs
- Driving test driven development approaches
- Developing deep understanding of Merck’s existing technology platforms and their interfaces as required by project work

Writing modular, scalable, testable HTML, CSS and Javascript code that is clean and standards-compliant and works with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks
Providing solutions with long-term maintainability and limited technical debt
Applying knowledge of cloud, APIs and browser feature support to design cross browser/device compatible solutions
Evaluating new libraries, frameworks and development standards to determine if they are the right fit for Merck
Leveraging an automated DevOps approach to build, deploy and support projects using modern tools such as Github, AWS, Rails and Chef
Designing robust interfaces to integrate a variety of systems and technologies to solve business problems and create scalable solutions
Documenting architectures and developing strategic approaches to implement scalable, performant solutions from conceptual UX designs
Driving test driven development approaches
Developing deep understanding of Merck’s existing technology platforms and their interfaces as required by project work

Ideal Candidate

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical degree
Proven record of web design and development on projects with the following skills:
Expertise of Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks
Strong technical skills across the entire development stack
Experienced with Agile techniques including Scrum
Excellent object-oriented and test-driven development skills
Detailed knowledge HTTP protocol, HTML5 capabilities, responsive design techniques, modern CSS frameworks/ tools/workflow, design patterns and Javascript MVC frameworks
Front end Design and User Experience Skills and the ability to design beautiful and intuitive interfaces
Expertise building scalable and fault tolerant solutions on AWS infrastructure
Experience with automated build tools and DevOps