Tech Engineering Lead

March 15

Nielsen

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Powering a better media future for all people

Television • Radio • Books & DVDs • Online • Music

10,000+

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-02

Description

• You join a software development team as Tech Lead to guide the team towards creating high quality software using modern architectures • The development team is an experienced, informal and enthusiastic scrum team of 5 developers • Responsible for combining different sources of Sports data from all over the world and delivering the data directly via an HTTP API or indirectly via other products, all in real-time • Own the technical roadmap for the team and represent the team internally and externally • Work together with international teams of developers located in Gracenote offices around the world • Examples of projects include extraction and transformation of sports data, delivering Olympic data to international clients, delivering data of all sports through a unified HTTP API, and automating build and deployment pipelines • Working in an Agile product development team using the Scrum framework • Working with a modern tech stack (TypeScript, Scala, Kafka, Akka, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS)

Requirements

• Experience with Scala, or other JVM languages with the capability to learn Scala • Experience with TypeScript • Understands Stream-processing, preferably with Kafka Streams • Comfortable in a DevOps culture and knows how to get work into production • Relevant work experience with both NoSQL (MongoDB) and SQL databases (Postgres, SQL Server) • Affinity with data and data streams • Good understanding of, and ideas about, good Software Architecture and infrastructure • Good communication skills and able to share knowledge with the team • Good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written

Benefits

• An informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company with opportunities for ownership • Personal development • Motivated, sports minded colleagues • A competitive salary and good benefits • A laptop with OS of choice (Windows, Mac or Linux)