KAUZA and Kantar's Worldpanel team (the folks who analyze what people buy) are hiring a senior software engineer with reverse engineering skills. This job is in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 

The Goal:

They're building a new platform to give their clients much better and faster insights into consumer shopping habits. Your main job will be to help get this platform launched and then make it work globally.
 

What You'll Actually Be Doing (The Techy Part):

• The Data Source: They have a mobile app called "WhatIBuy" where users submit their digital receipts. This is where the raw "shopper data" comes from.
• The Challenge: You'll be responsible for figuring out how to reliably get data out of these digital receipts. This is where the "reverse engineering" part likely comes in – digital receipts come in all sorts of formats, and you'll need to write code that can understand and parse them, even if the formats aren't nicely documented.
• Building "Scalable Data Extractors": This means you'll be designing and coding systems that can automatically pull the important information (like items bought, prices, store, time) from a huge number of these digital receipts. "Scalable" means these systems need to handle more and more receipts without breaking a sweat as they expand to new countries.
• Near Real-Time (NRT) Data: The aim is to make this shopping data available very quickly after it's collected. So, your extraction processes will need to be efficient.
• Global Scale-Up: They have big plans to launch this in many new countries ("markets and landscapes"). You'll be key in making sure the tech you build can handle different languages, currencies, receipt formats, and the sheer volume of data that comes with a global operation. This involves thinking about things like distributed systems, efficient data processing pipelines, and robust error handling.
• Maturing the Tech Stack: You'll be working with their existing technology and helping to improve it, making it more robust and ready for this expansion.
   

Your background will look like this…

• Full Professional English Proficiency (C1 Level minimum required).
• Minimum of 4 to 5 years of previous professional experience in Software Engineering preferably in back-end development and cloud infrastructure oriented roles.
• Programming experience with (but not limited to) Typescript and/or Python.
• Familiarity with SQL and RDBMS (BigQuery / PostgreSQL).
• Considerable professional experience with Cloud Services platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and infrastructure.
• Considerable experience with System Programming and Cloud Computing.
• Familiarity with reverse engineering and vulnerability analysis.
   

What you’ll get from us

• 30 days annual leave
• Hybrid & Flexible work schedule
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health, wealth, and lifestyle.
   

About us

Kauza ApS is a consulting company based in Copenhagen that provides fact-based advisory and shopper insights to players in the FMCG industry in the Nordic market. Kauza’s services are delivered in innovative dashboard solutions powered by cloud technology and machine learning, ensuring that they meet the clients’ key business questions with the right mix of data accessibility and data usability, making it possible to deliver shopper behavior and purchase data in rear real time.

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. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar’s 25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

We have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to encourage new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.

We want to build a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Privacy and Legal Statement

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager(s) and for consideration for potential future opportunities by Kantar and its affiliate Kantar group companies. For full details of our privacy policy please visit www.kantar.com.

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