Company Description
NielsenIQ and GfK together offer the Full View & recognized as the world's leading consumer intelligence company.
The world's most complete and clear view of consumer buying behavior combined with unparalleled omnichannel coverage, data platforms, and predictive analytics.
Combined company has over $4 billion in sales and 30,000+ clients covering 150+ countries.
Complementary and unmatched global reach and investments in coverage and technology will enable further strategic growth.
The strategic combination of NIQ and GfK brings together two companies that have independently made significant investments in omnichannel coverage, business intelligence tools, and predictive analytics.
With unmatched global reach and industry expertise, the company is positioned to accelerate its growth by offering The Full View of consumer behavior around the globe.
Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer with GfK based in Pune, you will be provided with a great opportunity to work as part of an agile feature team of technologist within the GfK product ecosystem. Specifically, you will work in a squad (mixing other developers, SREs, UI/UX designers, Product Owners, and Product Managers) dedicated to a project for the GfK Client Platform. For this opening you will be part of the Platform Services, the teams that looks after authentication and authorisations (subscriptions) for the whole platform.
You would initially help us in our migration phase from some of our current internal and external services and splitting some of our core applications into Microservices. Therefore, this role would require someone with a more focussed backend experience with Databases and data modelling.
This opening would suit either a Node.js or a Java backend engineer as the project consists of the mix. That said, a good grasp of SQL and data analysis techniques is crucial for this role as you will lead data transformation, schema design and query read/write optimisation efforts.
You will report to the Platform Services Tech Lead and work with your product counterpart, the Principal Product Manager for the Domain alongside the Domain Architect.e office
Qualifications
You Have:
8 years+ solid programming skills in Java (JDK 8+ and Spring)
5 years+ working experience of databases and SQL
5 years+ working experience of Microservices and RESTful APIs
5 years+ Experience analysing DB query plans (execution plan)
Experience optimising SQL Read/Write queries
Knowledge in TDD and unit testing
Experience with Design Patterns and Object-Oriented design
Solid computer science/engineering fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
Experience with Source-Control systems, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation
Experience with a Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If you have experience with other cloud providers, you can pick up GCP with us
An interest in helping other engineers become even better
It would be nice you have:
Experience with enterprise web-applications
No-SQL Databases such as MongoDB and Search indexes such as Elasticsearch or Solr
Experience building Single Page Applications
Google Cloud or similar could platforms
Experience of micro-services at scale
An understanding of Unix systems
Experience in Agile development like SAFe
Wear a Scrum Master hat from time to time
Some awareness of JS tech stack such as Node, React and Typescript
Additional Information
You Will:
Utilise TDD, that is a test first approach in writing unit and integration tests
You would analyse Postgres query plans (execution plan)
You would improve Postgres Read/Write queries performance
Identify and address application and data issues that affect application integrity.
Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing.
Suggest projects (e.g. training) that improve working efficiency and quality.
Work with the architects and an Agile team to influence the system architecture and performance goals.
Contribute to Agile practices, such as estimating and planning.
Collaborate well with team members
Document technical effort from time to time
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 insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platformsNIQ 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.
For more information, visit NIQ.com
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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. 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. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion
