Software Engineer

NielsenIQ
North, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 9/17/2024 CLOSED ON 10/21/2024

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at NielsenIQ?

Company Description

Join us on a journey of growth and discovery! For 89 years, we've earned client trust by excelling at solving decision-making challenges and fostering growth through a deep understanding of consumer behavior and market dynamics. In 2023, GfK and NIQ united, creating a global consumer intelligence leader.

Job Description

NIQ, a well-funded company, develops a cloud-based, self-service customer analytics and personalization solution for retailers. This solution helps

retailers leverage their customer data to improve loyalty and engagement.

We are looking for a highly motivated and creative Backend Software Engineer to join our growing team, who can lead, initiate, create, and optimize our

data and analytics technologies while pushing the company's data management systems to the next step.

What will you be doing?

  • Responsible for implementing micro-services from design to production
  • Take ownership of development, maintenance, testing strategy, design discussions, and operations of the team, with containerized API services
  • Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment
  • Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of new product features / components
  • Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
  • Work with a small, cross-functional team on products and features to drive growth
  • Learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies to grow
  • Research and suggest new technologies for boosting the product
  • Have an impact on product development by making important technical decisions, influencing the system architecture, development practices and
  • more

Qualifications

Requirements - A Must

  • B.Sc. in Computer Sciences or similar
  • At least 5 years of experience in Java backend development
  • Profound knowledge in OOP and design patterns
  • Experience and knowledge of server-side technologies such as Java, Spring
  • Experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes and Cloud environments
  • Expertise in testing methodologies (Unit-testing, TDD, mocking)
  • Fluent with Relational databases (SQL)
  • Good problem-solving and analysis abilities
  • Excellent team player with strong communication skills

Requirements - Advantage

  • Experience with Azure / GCP cloud services
  • Experience with large scale SQL / NoSQL databases (SingleStore, Postgres)
  • Experience with Agile Development, or Extreme Programming methodologies

Additional Information

With @NielsenIQ, we’re now an even more diverse team of 40,000 people – each with their own stories

Our increasingly diverse workforce empowers us to better reflect the diversity of the markets we measure.

Our Benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Volunteer time off
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

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About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

Want to keep up with our latest updates?

Follow us on: LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. 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. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion
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