Principal Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for a seasoned Principal Software Engineer to take an advanced role in the software engineering team utilizing Node.Js, React and PostgreSQL as part of our Market proposition within the GfK ecosystem.

You will:

• Bring suggestions and ideas on how to solve our customers' problems in the best way
• Be current with the latest trends in industry and academia and always look to implement novel ideas in GfK's predictive analytics solutions
• Work closely with Engineering and Product managers to translate business use cases to workable solutions that can be delivered to Production
• Work with the architects and an Agile team to influence the overall system architecture and performance goals
• Ensure timely delivery of software projects while promoting and maintaining high quality
• Ensure high software quality by writing unit and integration tests in TDD approach
• Suggest initiatives (e.g. training) that improve working efficiency and quality
• Actively contributing in agile practices, such as estimating and planning and retrospectives

You have:

• 10+ years of commercial software development experience in Node.JS, React and PostgreSQL
• The ability to build clean, well encapsulated packages to a high standard.
• The ability to write unit tests and what's the good and bad sides of measuring code coverage.
• Good understanding on using version control tools like gitlab/ github/ bitbucket including its pipeline configuration
• Full vocabulary of core creational, structural and behavioral software design patterns, and the ability to consistently employ the cache, pool, strategy, chain of responsibility, observer and visitor patterns as appropriate
• The ability to effectively manage code complexity in a large code base through the appropriate application of software architecture principles (layering, modularisation, etc.) and software design patterns
• Experience in designing and building RESTful APIs.
• Experience in unit and end-to-end testing, mocking frameworks (Jest, Cypress, RTL,Playright etc) 

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.

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