Technical Lead 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 dedicated Technical Lead Software Engineers to join our engineering community. Together you are building, enhancing and supporting the next generation of our platform. This role is perfect for a highly experienced software engineer who loves 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 Technical Lead Software Engineer, you will mentor or coach other engineers, review their code and help them deliver the best solutions possible. You will need to plan work, produce estimates with the team, and ensure tests can be depended on. You will be collaborating with other teams, Quality Assurance engineers, Product Owners, Analysts, Architects and DevOps specialists etc., sharing and learning together. You will need to plan work systematically, communicate effectively and ensure documentation is clear and up to date.

• Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem

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

• Support 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 contributor in setting the teams technical direction, best practices for team

• 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

This role is perfect for an experienced Lead Software Engineer who loves to tackle convoluted problems and come up with clean, stable solutions that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions.

• 7+ years of hands-on development experience including all aspects of object-orientated programming and genuine expertise with Microsoft .Net Core, C# and supporting technologies

• 2-4 years of experience as a technical team lead highly desirable

• Strong experience in web application development and designing cloud solutions with Azure

• Strong front-end development experience using technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS 3.0, materialize and bootstrap frameworks

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

• Fluency in Synchronous/Asynchronous communication via Web APIs or Messaging patterns

• Knowledge and experience developing on a microservice architecture

• Strong practical understanding of cyber security threats and secure coding practices

• Experience working with SQL Databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL in constructing complex queries

• Proficiency on Git or similar Source Control systems

• Understanding on container-based development such as Docker

• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills

• Ability to document and provide knowledge transfer materials for work completed

• Excellent time management and teamwork skills

• Ability to help design technical specifications and production processes

• Ability to break down complex problems into logical and manageable constructs

• Willingness to see through a project from inception to completion and provide technical input across the project lifecycle

• Ability to guarantee team alignment on developments and proper communication with team coordinators and architecture

• Ability to plan, schedule and monitor own work in a systematic and analytical manner within a limited time horizon

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.