Software Engineer

Job description

Date: Sep 7, 2018

Location: Markham, CA

Company: Nielsen

Software Engineer - 14613

Technology and Engineering - Canada Markham, Ontario

Want to join a team where your talent, ideas and creativity would matter? Do you value autonomy, crave new knowledge, and appreciate working on impactful solutions? Then this position may be for you!

We seek passionate, creative and innovative developers to join our team and help build leading edge technologies. With a balance of development, design, and cutting-edge technology, daily routine will never show its boring face.

Job Responsibilities include:

•Developing the next generation of back-end service and processing engines
•Assist in the planning and specification authoring for feature development
•Develop software precisely meeting specifications
•Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes
•Engineering software solutions that employ a diverse range of technologies such as Java, NoSQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, etc.

The ideal candidate will have:

•Computer Science or Software Engineering background.
•Solid experience with Java and/or Scala.
•Solid understanding of data structures and fundamental algorithms (sort, select, search, queue).
•Experience with Networking and IO, REST service development, and multi-threading.
•Familiarity with Linux
•Familiarity with NoSQL databases
•Familiarity with AWS and developing with Node JS are assets
•Eager to learn and willing to take initiatives

About Nielsen:

Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio, and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com