Senior Software Engineer_Full Stack
Mumbai, India
Technology – Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid
At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.
We are looking for both Senior and Software Engineers to join our Gracenote Tech team. The ideal candidates would have a passion for Clean Code, scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps.
Job Purpose:
● Develop and enhance our flagship Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports metadata software solutions.
● Design applications with a Platform-first mentality where scale, consistency and reliability are at the core of every decision.
Job Description:
- Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
- Design software with a Product-owner mentality: your software is the product and as such you own the product as much as any business person does.
- Work within small, highly configurable teams to deliver software in rapid increments using an iterative approach.
- Develop applications to catalog and power the world’s largest entertainment metadata repository across the Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports verticals.
- Interact with Product, Editorial and Client Experience teams to constantly refine the Gracenote offering.
Role Requirements:
- Passionate about software development and especially Frontend development
- Competency in Javascript/Typescript and Python
- Experience working with modern frontend frameworks like React/Nextjs/Vue with 2+ years of work experience.
- Have experience working with API(JSON, JSON(P) or XML)
- A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management and distributed systems
- Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
- A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields
Desired Skills:
- These skills are nice to have.
- Experience with SQL / NoSQL technologies like RDS (Postgres, MySQL), Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience specifically with AWS.
- Experience with containers (docker, containers) and kubernetes.
- Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.
- History of open source contributions
- A personal tech blog
- A passion for exploring new programming languages
