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.
Job Description
You join the Applications team, an experienced, informal and enthusiastic scrum team of 4 developers. The team is responsible for the development of highly scalable, flexible and responsive front end applications that are used on many high traffic international websites. Our Olympic widgets reached more than 300 million hits in 2 weeks on the NBC Olympic website.
The products that the Applications team develop and support include :
- Our widget platform, a React based product enabling our customers to integrate our sports data directly in their web pages
- Our hosted pages platform, a NodeJS and Express based product supplying seamless white labeled sports results pages to our customers
Examples of projects you will be working on in the next year :
Development of a generic schedule widget that is able to display all sports in all timezones in all languagesDevelopment of widgets that can render in Smart TV applicationsCreation of Olympic widgets to give clients a full and rich Olympic coverage for the Paris 2024 OlympicsWe Are :
A multinational company, with clients like FIFA, NOS, NBC, IOC, Eurosport, NU.nl, and many moreWorking in an Agile and Scrum development environmentWorking with state of the art techniques (React, Node.js, MongoDB, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda e.g.)We Offer :
An informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company with opportunities for ownership and personal developmentMotivated, sports minded colleaguesThe Ideal Candidate :
at least 3 years of experience in Reactexperience with ES6, Jest, WebPack, MongoDB and Sasswrite unit tested code as part of standard coding practicesenergetic team playerexperience working in an Agile environment.good communication skills and able to share his / her knowledge with the team.good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.B.E / B.Tech / BCA / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.Furthermore, It Is An Advantage If You :
Have experience with AngularJS, Angular, Node.js and, TypescriptHave experience with API's, JSON(P) and XMLHave an affinity with sportsAre used to working with the scrum frameworkLike to understand and brainstorm about architectureExperience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings.Qualifications
The ideal candidate :
at least 5 years of experience in JavaScriptexperience with React, ES6, Jest, WebPack, MongoDB and Sassminimum of three years of experience as a programmerwrite unit tested code as part of standard coding practicesenergetic team playerexperience working in an Agile environment.good communication skills and able to share his / her knowledge with the team.good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.B.E / B.Tech / BCA / MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.Furthermore, It Is An Advantage If You :
Have an affinity with sportsAre used to working with the scrum frameworkLike to understand and brainstorm about architectureHave experience with API's, JSON(P) and XMLHave knowledge of other (front end) technologies like Node.js, AngularJS and TypescriptExperience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings.Additional Information
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Skills Required
React, Express, Sass, Es6, Node.js, Mongodb, Webpack, Kubernetes, Jest, Aws