Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack- Java+Angular)- 7+ years

Company Description At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future. Gracenote Sports is a leading international sports company that provides innovative and unique products and services to the sports industry. Gracenote Sports is engaged in producing, distributing, publishing and monetization of sports data on all platforms. Gracenote’s sports database is one of the largest in the world. Customers and partners are national and international media, TV channels, international sports federations, organizers of events (such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games), global auto manufacturers and global consumer electronics manufacturers. Gracenote Sports offers its customers innovative distribution and publishing solutions with the ambition to publish their multilingual sports data in an unified schema within one second in all products.

Job Description What does the job involve? You join the Sports Tooling team, an experienced, informal and enthusiastic scrum team of 6 developers. The team is responsible for the development of sports tooling that are used by many content operators simultaneously to enter and deliver Sports data to our global clients

The products that the Tooling team are working on are:

• Teamsports Application: An Angular-based tool with Java as the backend and MS SQL as the database. This is used by the Content Team to input various sports data like Cricket, Football, Volleyball, etc in various formats as required by our clients.
• Supporting Applications: This includes the Sports Entity Management, Global Sports Data Explorer, QC Dashboard and others all of which manage various aspects of our comprehensive sports data.

Examples of projects you will be working on in the next year:

• Onboarding new sports like Ice hockey and others from Low level to very High Level Coverage in the data entry tooling
• Onboarding Leagues and other important entities on Sports Entity Management.
• Creation of a more robust queuing mechanism on the front-end by use of Indexed DB, AWS SQS and creating load tests to ensure stability and smooth performance.

We Are

• A multinational company, with clients like FIFA, Comcast, IOC, Eurosport, and many more
• Working in an Agile and Scrum development environment
• Working with state of the art techniques (Angular, Java, MS SQL, React, Node.js, AWS Lambda)

We Offer

• An informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company with opportunities for ownership and personal development
• Motivated, sports minded colleagues

Qualifications The ideal candidate:

• Java is mandatory- 3 years of relevant experience in Java required
• At least 1 year working experience with Angular
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a programmer
• Experience with ES6, AWS, CICD pipelines,
• Write unit tested code, playwright regression code as part of standard coding practices
• Energetic team player
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Good communication skills and able to share his/her knowledge with the team.
• Good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.
• B.E / B.Tech / BCA/ MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Furthermore, It Is An Advantage If You

• Have experience with MS SQL and Playwright
• Have experience with API’s, JSON(P) and XML
• Have an affinity with sports
• Are used to working with the scrum framework
• Like to understand and brainstorm about architecture
• Experience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings. Are you looking for a sports challenge within an international, ambitious organization, please apply for the role. 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. Our passion for music, TV, movies, and sports is at the heart of everything we do. But what really makes us tick is our people. From Emeryville to Sydney and Queensbury to Amsterdam, we are building the team that’s going to disrupt the digital universe. This starts by creating a workplace where all things entertainment are celebrated and innovation can come from anyone. If you are interested in being mission critical and on the leading edge of global entertainment technology then please contact us today!

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