Nielsen Global Media is a global independent measurement and big data analytics company focused on your future. We explore audiences everywhere—uncovering and discovering what they want—so businesses can make media that counts. We are looking for a Software Developer Team Lead who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the autonomy to explore, learn, and adopt. This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills to successfully deliver software products while mentoring and supporting the team. Your focus will be on building and maintaining highly distributed, scalable, high-performing, and cost-effective systems.
Responsibilities
Lead of a team of frontend and backend developers
Tracks all project-related activities, including tasks, timelines, and team member roles
Ability to transform a user story/concept into a working scalable system
Ability to self-start and push projects forward toward completion
Develop, automate, and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms built on AWS
Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of frontend systems
Build fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient microservices
Develop applications that use React, RESTful API, and Microservices frameworks
Collaborate with BigData and product teams to build end-to-end solutions
Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements
Qualifications
8+ years of experience with Cloud services in a 24x7 uptime environment
Experience leading a frontend development team
Competency in React, JavaScript, SQL/NoSQL Database, API, NodeJS
Experience architecting, developing, and testing full-stack code end-to-end
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and associated tools
Experience building integrations using web services and maintaining an API
Have worked in Agile and DevOps environment and have good understanding of SDLC
Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres), web servers, containers
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields, or equivalent work experience
Experience with AWS
Nice to have Skills
Extensive experience with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and containers
Experience with Airflow, ELK, or similar technologies
Infrastructure automation
Experience with backend big data platforms, technologies, and languages
