NielsenIQ - Senior Software Engineer - C++/Python

Key Responsibilities:

Design & Development:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance services for business-critical systems.

- Take ownership of end-to-end implementation of features, from design to production rollout.

- Apply sound software design principles to ensure long-term maintainability and extensibility.

- Contribute actively to architectural discussions, proposing design improvements and technical solutions.

Distributed Systems & APIs:

- Build and enhance distributed and event-driven systems with a focus on resiliency and scalability.

- Design and implement API contracts, ensuring backward compatibility and clear versioning strategies.

- Work with messaging, streaming, or asynchronous processing paradigms where appropriate.

Quality, Reliability & Observability:

- Implement automated tests (unit, integration, and component tests) to ensure high code quality.

- Contribute to observability and telemetry by instrumenting services with metrics, logging, and tracing.

- Participate in production support, incident analysis, and reliability improvements.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership:

- Perform code and design reviews to maintain engineering standards and share knowledge.

- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team technical growth.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and deliver cohesive solutions.

- Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, or technologies that improve developer productivity and system 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with strong hands-on development skills on C++ & Python.

- Strong hands-on skills in Shell Scripting, Linux, and SQL.

- Solid experience building distributed systems or microservices.

- Basic knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Strong understanding of performance, reliability, and scalability concerns.

- Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or other AI code-assist tools.

- Good understanding of data structures and databases.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Information:

Our Benefits:

- Flexible working environment

- Volunteer time off

- LinkedIn Learning

- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

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