Principal Software Engineer

7 days ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India The Nielsen Company Full time
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer - Collection and Crediting System

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer is ultimately responsible for delivering technical solutions: starting from the project's onboard until post-launch support and including design, development, testing. It is expected to coordinate, support and work with multiple delocalized project teams in multiple regions. As the Principal Software Engineer in our Collection and Crediting team, you will lead the development efforts for the backend collection and crediting system that processes massive amounts of data every hour 24x7.

Responsibilities:
  • Conceive, design and build new features for the Collection and/or Crediting systems, ensuring data accuracy and data throughput across a system deployed in multiple countries and data centers.
  • Collaborate with Product Leaders to define business rules to be implemented in the crediting system - at times very complex rules that need to be validated via proof of concepts
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Ensure continuous integration and delivery of features, improvements, and bug fixes.
  • Create design blueprints that can be used by others
  • Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, and design principles.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality
  • Identify and address performance bottlenecks in both collection and crediting components.
  • Evaluate new technologies for integration into the production environment
  • Provide day-to-day work direction to other developers on the team
  • Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on technical aspects and best practices.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach to software development
  • Implement security best practices for both client and upload components.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to application security.
Key Skills:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • Proven experience, minimum 12 years, in Java based systems, that span traditional on-prem/server and AWS server less environments, utilizing tools such as: Kafka, SQS, Spring, Oracle/RDS/SQL, JSON, S3, EKS, EMR, Java, Python, Lambda, Athena, Go-Lang, Prometheus, & Grafana
  • Expert understanding of CI/CD principles and tools. GitLab a plus
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Leadership experience, minimum 4 years, in guiding technical decisions and mentoring team members.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
  • Able to innovative solutions as an individual or within a group
Other Desirable Skills:
  • Knowledge of networking principles and security best practices.
  • Experience with Data Lakes, Spark and Redis a plus
  • AWS Architect Certification is a plus


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