Job Description

Company Description

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.

Nielsen's Lineup & Metadata services are the definitive source of channel line-ups, program schedules, and content identifiers that power our audience-measurement products. Accuracy, coverage, and near-real-time delivery are mission-critical: they directly influence ratings quality, client billing, and viewer discovery.
The Member of Technical Staff 2(MTS2) is ultimately responsible for delivering technical solutions: starting from the project's onboard until post launch support and including development, testing and user acceptance.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

System Deployment:

+ Build new UI screens and client?side capture logic in React (TypeScript). Create/extend Java (Spring Boot) micro?services and GraphQL / REST endpoints. Model and persist data in PostgreSQL / Aurora and S3 / Parquet for analytics.
CI/CD Implementation:

+ Leverage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
+ Ensure continuous integration and delivery of features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Code Quality and Best Practices:

+ Adhere to coding standards, best practices, and design principles.
+ Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality.
Performance Optimization:

+ Profile React bundles, optimise API latency, instrument with Prometheus/Grafana, and help triage production issues.
Team Collaboration:

+ Follow best practices.
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach to software development.
Security and Compliance:

+ Implement security best practices for both client and upload components.
+ Adhere to industry standards and regulations related to web application security.

Key Skills

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Frontend: React (16+), TypeScript, Redux/Context, Jest/RTL. Backend: Java 17, Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL, Kafka or Kinesis. Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL), MongoDB, schema design, performance tuning Testing: JUnit 5, Cypress/Playwright, Pact/contract testing. Good understanding of CI/CD principles and tools. Good problem-solving and debugging skills. Good communication and collaboration skills with ability to communicate technical concepts Utilizes team collaboration to contribute to innovative solutions efficiently

Other good to have skills

Exposure to the AWS tech stack. Working knowledge of Java and SQL

Additional Information

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