Company Description

About the opportunity:

NielsenIQ has a unique opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer in our retail intelligence product development team. This is a highly technical role that will allow you to be involved in the architecture of both front end and back end web development as we extend our embedded analytics platform.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a team of highly skilled web, business intelligence, infrastructure and data engineers who are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading retailers on challenging, cutting-edge, data driven solutions, powered by technology, and people. While your core skill will be web front and back end development, you will be expected to contribute in all areas of the product by developing your skills in other technologies, such as data, automated testing and infrastructure.

NielsenIQ ensures that its associates maintain a healthy work-life balance. We put associates first – investing to develop their technical and soft skills. We learn together, deliver awesome products that we are proud of, and have fun.

Job Description

About you:

• You are confident participating in an agile environment on design, development, testing and implementation of web solution components and modules

• You bring positive energy to the team and thrive on strong collaboration

• You are someone that others look to to solve complex problems, bounce ideas off of, and provide an alternate viewpoint

• You are self-motivated and thrive on developing solutions to open-ended business problems

• You believe in creating great user experiences through application flow and front-end design

• You have 4-10 years of developing end to end web solutions

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or another related discipline

Qualifications

What you’ll do:

• Leverage your previous experience to develop moderately to highly complex software solutions from business requirements that follow department software solution design standards

• SME of one or more areas in the product architecture 

• Lead discussions on requirements clarification for various technology projects

• Research alternate technology options to improve and expand solutions

• Develop web solutions for industry-leading interactive retail analytics, with opportunities for leadership on some projects as a full stack developer

• Develop backend features in Java and corresponding development frameworks such as Spring

• Develop frontend features in Angular - JavaScript, TypeScript, Node js

• Work with:

  • HTML5, CSS3, JSON

  • Bootstrap, LESS, SASS

  • Database - Snowflake, Postgres

  • Atlassian tools - Git/Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo

• Troubleshoot and correct complex software defects

• Participate in peer code reviews

Nice to have:

• Experience in server-side development (NodeJS, C#, Java, Python, Scala)

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs

• Experience developing data-driven visualizations using Qlik Mashup, Nebula.js, picasso.js, Enigma.js, D3, ChartJS, HighCharts, Raphael, AnyChart, etc

• Familiarity with wireframing, UX design or UI patterns

• Cloud deployment experience e.g. Amazon Web Services, and Azure

• Big Data, Data Warehousing, In-Memory Database experience

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ:

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ 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. 

About NielsenIQ 

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ 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.