Senior Software Engineer

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.

About the role

• Nielsen is seeking an organized, detail oriented, team player, to join the Collections and ITAM Back Office Engineering team in the role of Senior Software Engineer. Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Engineering platforms support the measurement of television viewing in more than 30 countries around the world. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible to define, develop, test, analyze, and deliver technology solutions within Nielsen’s Collections platforms. Ideal candidates will have exceptional skills in programming, testing, debugging and problem solving as well as effective communication and writing skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years equivalent work experience.
• Strong testing and debugging abilities, functional, analytical and technical abilities,
• ability to find bugs, attention to detail, troubleshooting
• Solid understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment environments
• and tools including GitLab and Terraform
• Proven hands-on experience as a software engineer with expertise and focus on one or
• more technologies inclusive of NodeJS, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, NGNX web servers),
• Java, Python, PostgreSQL, REST API’s
• Proven ability to be a technical lead and assist in the technical growth of other Team
• Members and operate as the technical expert for multiple applications.
• Appreciation for and commitment to clean, reusable and well-tested code, architecture,
• and documentation
• Experience with large scale enterprise system development and integration.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Scaled Agile Framework a plus.

Skills

• Strong analytical skills and sense of technical creativity
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering fundamentals including
• object-oriented design, data structures, dependency injection, testable code, and algorithms.
• Resourceful, self-starter, and a team-player
• Effective communication and writing skills are a must
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality technical documentation.
• Experience in writing unit/integration tests including test automation.
• Desire to be deeply involved in product supplementation and automation
• Detail oriented with a commitment to innovation
• Adaptability — a fast learner with a willingness to build solutions using tools to which you may have had little previous exposure.
• Ability to communicate in English (conduct written and spoken daily conversations with
• English speakers from 30+ countries around the world)