Magnet.me  -  The smart network where hbo and wo students find their internship and first job.

The smart network where hbo and wo students find their internship and first job.

This opportunity has expired. It is therefore no longer possible to like or apply.

See similar opportunities instead

Frontend Engineer

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

Your career starts on Magnet.me

Create a profile and receive smart job recommendations based on your liked jobs.

Frontend Engineer

Nieuwegein

Fulltime

Who are we?

Nielsen is a leading international audience measurement and data company that provides innovative services to the entertainment industry. Our business unit, Gracenote Video, is engaged in producing, distributing, publishing and monetizing Video and TV data on all platforms.

Gracenote’s Video/TV database is one of the largest in the world. Customers and partners are national and international media, TV channels, Internet search giants, social media companies and global consumer electronics manufacturers.

To extend our international team we are looking for Frontend Engineers with an affinity for data architecture and techniques to join our agile data team in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. We are looking for smart people with great programming skills that have experience working with a variety of technology and tools.

What does the job involve?

You join the data team, an experienced, informal and enthusiastic scrum team of 4+ developers. The data team is responsible for the design of the core databases, the development of data entry tooling, and the development and architecture of the API’s to access and manipulate video data for our European customers. Part of the job is that you work together with international teams of developers located in Nielsen offices around the world.

Gracenote Video is building a single platform aggregating global video data from all our international locations. Over the next three years, this team’s objectives are to enable the ongoing modernisation and redevelopment of our core database and tooling moving from legacy technologies to Big Data architectures and reactive web apps.

In the role you will:

  • Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine software requirements.
  • Translating product requirements into software solutions.
  • Analyzing, developing, testing and supporting state-of-the-art software applications.
  • Helping the team designing architecture and coding solutions.
  • Create working prototypes, build and deployment scripts.
  • Work closely with architects/designers to design and implement reusable system components.
  • Work with the technical project manager to ensure that the project stays on track by advising on risks and actions.
  • Mentor junior onshore/offshore developers

We are:

  • A multinational company, with clients like Google, Facebook, Roku, NBC and many more
  • Working in an Agile and Scrum development environment
  • Working with industry-standard applications (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, ...) and use a wide range of technology (AWS, Spark, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, ... ) and development languages (golang, scala, java, javascript)

We offer:

  • An informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company with opportunities for ownership and personal development
  • Motivated, international like-minded colleagues
  • A competitive salary and good benefits
  • Laptop

The ideal candidate has:

  • Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 5 years of either back-end or front-end software development experience.
  • For front-end engineers, Minimum 3 years of experience in Javascript and frameworks like ReactJS or similar
  • Experience developing and integrating REST API
  • DevOps experience is a huge plus
  • Experience in the software development lifecycle and project management.
  • Highly analytical mindset, with an ability to see both the big picture and the details.
  • Has worked with AWS or another cloud provider
  • Has good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written

Skills that are appreciated:

  • Knowledge of different programming languages (go, scala, java, javascript) and frameworks (e.g React, Angular), different databases (Cassandra, Elasticsearch) and technologies (e.g Spark, Airflow)
  • Experience in Devops and Monitoring related tools and languages (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus and Grafana)
  • Experience with the development of web-based data entry tooling
  • Has experience working in an Agile environment

Above all, we are looking for good problem solvers and critical thinkers who keep an open mind, stay relevant by continually educating themselves, and are passionate about efficiency and good design. If you enjoy learning and applying new things, we want to talk with you.

Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only…


Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement.

By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population.

For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.

Media
Diemen
10,001 employees