Senior Software Engineer

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.

Senior Software Engineer

Nielsen is a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics, Nielsen shapes the future of media with accurate measurement of what people listen to and watch. This role will be a leader in the Marketing Cloud business unit.

The Nielsen Marketing Cloud (NMC) helps publishers, advertisers and agencies with targetable audience data for programmatic advertising. We connect leading online publishers with advertisers, ad agencies and ad networks who seek to create a more interest-tailored online advertising experience.

We process 25TB of data each day in a highly distributed system running hundreds of instances in the cloud and storing data in modern NoSQL DBs like Aerospike. Our system has to be highly performant yet cost effective, scale up and down yet at the same time adhere to a strict SLA.As a developer in the team, you’ll be tasked with designing and implementing new features and methodologies to make the system more effective and be able to support evolving market needs. 

In your role as a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and manage our application server. Your focus will be on achieving highly distributed, scalable, high-performing, and cost-effective systems. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to work on other types of projects and technologies like serverless systems and big data pipelines.

• A degree in computer science or equivalent 
• At least 6+ years of hands-on experience in server-side development working on several  complex projects
• Experience working with Java and Java frameworks
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good English (verbal AND written)

• A team member
• Ability to transform a user story / concept into a working scalable system
• Present your ideas and drive to decisions 
• Ability to self-start and push projects forward toward completion
• Be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, meet deadlines, effectively manage priorities and communicate progress
• Be able to take an idea from the ideation stage to incubation, planning and execution phase
• Love to bring fresh ideas and out of the box thinking to the projects you are working on
• Passion for learning and finding that unexpected solution

• Experience with cloud services, preferably on AWS
• Additional languages such as Scala and Python 
• Fluency in SQL
• Strong understanding of data modeling, database design, data warehousing concepts and distributed systems principles
• Experience with data-driven technologies such as Airflow, Spark, Kafka and Flink
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Experience with Dockers and Kubernetes
• Experience with continuous deployment tools like GitLab pipelines, Terraform and Ansible

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance. 

A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $50,000-$185,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. 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.

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