Principal Engineer, Frontend
Chennai
About the Job
Our NielsenIQ Technology teams are working on our new “Discover” platform, a unified, global, open data ecosystem powered by Microsoft Azure. Our clients worldwide rely on NielsenIQ’s data and insights to innovate and grow.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be part of a team of smart, highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning and prototyping cutting-edge technologies. Our platform is based on Angular, JAVA, Spring Boot, Mongo, Postgres, and Snowflake, and we continue to adopt the best of breed in cloud-native, low-latency technologies. We value CI/CD in everything that we develop. Our team is co-located and agile, with central technology hubs in Chicago, Madrid, Toronto, and Chennai & Pune
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional technical teams in the design, development and delivery of quality software applications
- Write complex, clean and maintainable code to develop scalable user-friendly Front-end applications, services and API
- Design and architect frontend or full-stack solutions
- Develop reusable UI components that can serve the needs of multiple applications
- Drive proof of concepts to validate solution options
- Ensure the maintainability and quality of code
- Hands-on management of a team/teams of developers
Must Have:
- 10 to 15 years of experience in front end development
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Angular Development: Proficient in Angular framework, preferably with hands-on experience in recent versions such as Angular 14, 15, 16, 17, etc., demonstrating expertise in building dynamic and responsive web applications.
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TypeScript & JavaScript: Strong command over TypeScript and JavaScript languages, with the ability to write clean, modular, and efficient code, leveraging advanced features and concepts to enhance application functionality.
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HTML: Expertise in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for creating structured and semantic web content, ensuring compatibility across different browsers and devices.
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CSS/SCSS: Proficient in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SCSS (Sassy CSS) for styling web applications, with a focus on responsive design, layout management, and maintaining code scalability and reusability.
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Unit Testing with Karma & Jasmine: Extensive experience in writing and executing unit test cases using Karma test runner and Jasmine testing framework, ensuring code reliability, functionality, and test coverage.
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Version Control with GitHub: Proficient in version control using GitHub, including repository management, branching strategies, pull requests, and collaboration features, to facilitate efficient code management and team collaboration.
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Agile Project Management with JIRA: Familiarity with Agile project management methodologies and tools, particularly JIRA, for managing project workflows, sprint planning, task tracking, and facilitating communication and collaboration within Agile teams.
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UX Design Understanding with Figma: Familiarity with Figma design tool for understanding and interpreting UX/UI designs, collaborating with designers, and implementing design specifications into the development process to ensure consistency and alignment with user experience goals
Good to have:
- Exposure to MEAN stack, BFF, MFE and PWA.
- Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms.
- Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family.
- Plan your future with financial wellness tools.
- Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities.
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion
