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

ABOUT THIS JOB

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.

In your role you will be part of a development team responsible for developing, improving and maintaining our identity graph, which deterministically and probabilistically groups media consumption devices into persons, and persons into households. This data structure powers our marketing activation business, and helps our clients convey their advertising messages in the device- person- or household- level.

The construction of the identity graph involves Apache Airflow-based data pipelines, triggering AWS EMR-based Scala-developed Apache Spark jobs handling tens of TBs of data.

Technical Skills:

• At least Bachelors in Computer Science or Software Engineering 
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in server-side development working on several complex data projects
• Hands-on development experience with Apache Spark in Scala
• Hands-on development experience with Apache Airflow pipelines in Python
• Hands-on working experience with Git
• Very strong SQL
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good English (verbal AND written)

Skills that are an advantage:

• AWS ecosystem
• SBT (build tool)
• GitLab CI
• Bash programming
• Docker/K8s

Soft Skills:

• 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 the 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

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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