Senior Software Engineer

NielsenIQ Brandbank Software Engineers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Engineering Managers to realise business goals.
Working within a dedicated delivery team, the Senior Software Engineer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for guiding the team in developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions
Job Responsibilities:
Approach work from an Agile mindset applying practices and principles wherever possible
Attend and participate in all Sprint events to achieve desired outcomes, taking a leading role where required to ensure events have a good outcome
Collaborates closely with all team members to take a shared responsibility for the sprint backlog and their success
Maintain broader code quality through peer code reviews
Identify improvement opportunities and agree on actionable improvements
Be available, on a best endeavors basis, to support the resolution of Severity 1 and 2 incidents for applications owned by your team between 7am and 10pm local time on local working days as well as providing retrospective feedback
Qualifications
Role Requirements E=essential, P=preferred
E - Demonstrable experience of mentoring other more junior Engineers
E - Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience
E - Strong hands on technical skills across some or all of the Microsoft Stack and other key technologies:
PHP
MS Azure
Javascript / Typescript (React preferable)
MySQL
PHPUnit
Elasticsearch
GIT
XML, JSON
E - Excited by technology, with up to date understanding of latest technologies
E - Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly
E - Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery
E - Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design
E - Good understanding of data and databases
E - Proven track record or working as part of a team to deliver software solutions to meet customer needs
E - Thorough and detailed approach with the ability to identify appropriate user/business solutions
E - Some experience of code reviews and coding standards
E - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal
E - An analytical mind
Additional Information
Our Benefits
Flexible working environment
Volunteer time off
LinkedIn Learning
Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No