What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Software Engineer position at NielsenIQ?
Job Description
NielsenIQ BASES is the global leader and gold-standard for helping companies in the consumer goods industries to realize their growth strategies. BASES analytical SaaS products provide support to clients to create and evolve new innovations, optimize impactful advertising and messaging aligned with the widening range of consumer influences, build compelling package designs and help prioritize and plan product launches. Having decades of successful leadership across fast moving consumer goods, BASES is expanding into growth verticals including Restaurants, Tech, Household Durables, Consumer Electronics, and Gaming.
As a Software Engineer you’ll be part of a team of smart, highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning and prototyping cutting-edge technologies. Right now our platform is based in Java, Angular, Spring Boot, Apache NiFi, Mongo, Postgres and Snowflake, and we continue to adopt the best of breed in cloud-native, low-latency technologies. We value CI/CD in everything that we develop. Our team is co-located and agile, with central technology hubs in Chicago, Madrid, Toronto and Chennai.
What you’ll do:
- Develop new and enhance existing single-page web applications and develop key system features.
- Explore and evaluate new technologies to advance our SaaS platform and grow our business
- Serve as a developer on teams that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, building final applications and testing.
- Work closely with architects, and other teams to design and implementation cross functional requirements
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Follow community best practices and team SDLC guidelines
We’re looking for people who have:
- 2 years of software development/engineering experience
- BS in Software Engineering or related discipline
- Experience programming in C# (.Net Core or .Net Standard Framework)
- Experience programming in Angular preferred
- Experience in web application development
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript preferred
- Understanding of database design principles
- Understanding of relational databases such as MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with Agile process
- Experience with writing reusable C# libraries, building custom RESTful APIs, and integrating 3rd party APIs preferred
- Experience with code management practices and standard source management systems (e.g. Git, GitHub, BitBucket, Visual Studio Team Services/Azure DevOps) preferred
- Cloud experience (Azure, AWS) a plus
Additional Information
About NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.
NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.
