Overview
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Our Insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce, and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.
We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering community. Together you are building, enhancing, and supporting the next generation of our platform. This role is perfect for a highly experienced software engineer who loves to work as a team whilst building elegant and simple solutions that scale!
Key Responsibilities
To design and build world-class applications and services that meet the needs of our global customer community. Our platform must be stable and resilient, highly secure, and yet adaptable to change since we are adding new features and products all the time. You can expect to use cutting-edge approaches to problem-solving, and we want you to keep learning.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Support and mentor other engineers, review code and help deliver the best solutions possible.
Collaborate on planning work, producing estimates with the team, and ensure tests can be depended on.
Collaborate with other teams Product Owners, Analysts, Architects and DevOps specialists etc., sharing and learning together.
Plan work systematically, communicate effectively and ensure documentation is clear and up to date.
Solve complex problems with clarity and creativity
Work with other engineers and teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.
Implement the technical direction and enhancements for microservices written in .NET that the team manages
Design and build new microservices and help to bring them to production quickly
Be a key contributor in setting the teams technical direction, best practices for team
Be a key contributor in the estimation of technical roadmap for team and services that the team manages
Ensure code quality by writing automated tests
Work closely with Product Owners and other Development teams to define requirements that they can use to implement with best-in-class technology
Capabilities and Experience
This role is perfect for a Senior Software Engineer who loves to tackle complex problems and come up with clean, stable solutions of that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions.
5+ years of hands-on development experience including all aspects of object-oriented programming and genuine expertise with Microsoft .NET Core, C#, and supporting technologies.
Front-end development experience using technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS 3.0, materialize, and bootstrap frameworks.
Strong knowledge of object-oriented software development concepts, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
Fluency in Synchronous/Asynchronous communication via Web APIs or Messaging patterns.
Knowledge and experience developing on microservice architecture.
Experience with SQL databases and constructing complex queries.
Proficiency in Git or similar Source Control systems
Understanding of container-based development such as Docker.
Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.
Ability to document and provide knowledge transfer materials for completed work.
Excellent time management and teamwork skills.
Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes.
Ability to break down complex problems into logical and manageable constructs.
Willingness to see through a project from inception to completion.
Be open to create automated tests to guarantee the code quality