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Nielsen is seeking an organized, detail oriented, team player, to join the ITAM Back Office Engineering team in the role of Software Engineer. Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Engineering platforms support the measurement of television viewing in more than 30 countries around the world. Ideal candidates will have exceptional skills in programming, testing, debugging and problem solving as well as effective communication and writing skills.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of relevant work experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer or electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent

• Development experience with Microsoft Visual C++ and .NET/C#

• C++ experience on Windows platform

• MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) programming experience

• SQL Programming (Microsoft SQL Server)

• Experience in writing unit/integration tests including test automation.

• Strong testing and debugging abilities, functional, analytical and technical abilities, ability to find bugs, attention to detail, troubleshooting

• Resourceful, self-starter, and a team-player

• Desire to be deeply involved in product supplementation and automation

• Appreciation for and commitment to clean, reusable and well-tested code, architecture, and documentation

• Experience working in an Agile environment (scrum, kanban)Solid understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment environments

• Strong analytical skills and sense of technical creativity

• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills

• Detail oriented with a commitment to innovation

• Effective communication and writing skills are a must

• Ability to communicate in English (conduct written and spoken daily conversations with English speakers from 30+ countries around the world)

Additional Useful Skills

• SQL Programming (PostgreSQL)

• Experienced in building RESTful APIs.

• Work with web technology including AWS, Docker, Python, JavaScript