Software Engineer

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.

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Job Details

Overview

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. Our Insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

We are looking for a dedicated Software Engineer to join our engineering community. Together you are building, enhancing and supporting the next generation of our platform! This role is perfect for experienced software engineers who love to work as a team whilst building elegant and simple solutions that scale.

Key Responsibilities

To design and build world-class applications and services that meet the needs of our global customer community. Our platform must be stable and resilient, highly secure and yet adaptable to change since we are adding new features and products all the time. You can expect to use cutting-edge approaches to problem-solving, and we want you to keep learning.

As a Software Engineer, you will set a great example with your own code whilst supporting the team and less experienced colleagues. You will work with stakeholders to understand project scope. You’ll be adept at breaking feature requests down into incremental changes that can be estimated and planned effectively. You’ll be part of a team that takes collective responsibility for the quality of its work.

• Solve complex problems with clarity and creativity

• Work with other engineers and teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.

• Implement the technical direction and enhancements for microservices written in .net that the team manages

• Design and build new microservices and help to bring them to production quickly

• Be a key participant in following the team’s technical direction and best practices

• Be a key contributor in the estimation of technical roadmap for team and services that the team manages

• Ensure code quality by writing automated tests

• Work closely with Product Owners and other Development teams to define requirements that they can use to implement with best-in-class technology

Capabilities and Experience

• 2-6 years of hands-on development experience using .NET technologies

• Good level in developing and maintain backend applications using Microsoft .Net Core, C# and supporting technologies

• Solid front-end development experience using technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, Node JS, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5, CSS 3.0, Materialize and bootstrap frameworks

• Some experience in designing and building web applications for the public cloud, especially Microsoft Azure, is a definite plus

• Experience working with SQL Databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or Postgres in constructing complex queries and stored procedures

• Good understanding of Synchronous/Asynchronous communication via Web APIs or Messaging frameworks

• Good understanding of cyber security threats and secure coding practices

• Strong knowledge of object-oriented software development concepts, SOLID principles and design patterns

• Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes

• Good understanding of Git or similar Source Control system is a must

• Understanding on container-based development such as Docker is a plus

• Familiarity with Microservice or similar architecture is a plus

• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members

• Excellent time management and team collaboration skills

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. 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, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Location

Porto, R. Dom João IPortugal

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar 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 inspire 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 create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive 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 create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

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 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.