At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future. We have an opportunity for a full stack Staff Software Engineer to join our org. We are looking for hands-on engineers with proven experience developing, running, and scaling applications and platforms in a production environment. You will work on a highly-focused engineering team implementing applications, platforms, microservices, and handling large sets of data. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and motivated to understand and leverage cutting edge technologies that will bring value to the organization. You will also play a vital role driving software innovations.
Responsibilities
Be a part of a high performing team developing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective software solutions with an emphasis on quality, performance, resilience, and efficiency.
Work with Product, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to understand the production and scalability requirements of assigned projects.
Work on several projects with multiple dependencies and complex requirements upstream and downstream and with stakeholders across teams.
Identify and address performance bottlenecks in both frontend and backend components, and optimize applications for speed and scalability.
Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and operation of our production system architecture, applications, platforms, and pipelines.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach, and mentor junior team members
Key Skills
A graduate degree in computer science, or similar discipline.
8+ years of professional software development experience delivering high quality standalone and web applications, platforms, and micro services.
Proficiency with Ruby on Rails (requirement/use will diminish over time).
Proficiency with Go (requirement/use will increase over time).
Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript and React (vue.js experience short term)
Experience with a wide variety of databases (relational, non-relational, graph, in-memory). Preferred PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch knowledge.
Experience with cloud implementation & architecture, container technologies, and orchestration tools, specifically using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, as well as general DevOps.
Strong experience designing and implementing APIs, complex microservices, system architecture, and handling big data.
