Software Engineer

Software Developer, Mumbai / Remote

About this job

Nielsen Brandbank Software Developers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Scrum Masters to realise business goals.

Working within dedicated domains, the Software Developer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions.

Responsibilities

• You strive for constant improvement in both you and other domain team members
• You have sound judgement, a keen eye for details and tenacity for solving difficult problems
• You bring a positive energy to a team and thrive on strong collaboration.
• You are someone more junior team members look to for support when facing challenges, to bounce ideas off and for providing an alternate viewpoint.
• You can coach and mentor more junior team members
• You actively keep informed of emerging technologies and look for ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability
• You are comfortable managing your own tasks
• Working under guidance identify process improvement opportunities and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions
• Build solutions and services that mitigate security threats
• Collaborate well with other stakeholders when necessary to review specifications, understand and contribute to requirement/story identification/creation
• Interpret this information to build and document new features to appropriate standards
• Review and interpret system designs created by others
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or equivalent combination of skills and experience)
• 3-5 years working within a software engineering environment

Essential

Working level experience with some or all the following key technologies:

• PHP v7/8
• Symfony Framework 2 or higher
• MySql or MariaDB
• Elastic Search
• Redis
• Javascript / Typescript (React preferable)
• Unit Testing
• GIT
• XML, JSO

• Preferable

  .NET and C#
• ASP.NET, MVC
• WPF
• SQL Server, TSQL
• Microsoft Azure Services
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly
• Good understanding of software architecture, issues and design
• Good understanding of data and databases
• Familiarity and good experience with Agile development methodologies and the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery
• Excellent English language communication skills - both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical people