Market research is the original data driven business. Incubated and spun-off from a university, we have earned the trust of the world´s biggest companies and leading brands - for more than 80 years. Today, everything at GfK starts and ends with Data and Science
We are proud of our heritage – and our future: Currently we’re on a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by cutting edge technology. In our Technology & Data organization, we are responsible for the entire lifecycle of our data-driven products.
You still think Market Research is about questionnaires aggregated with Excel?
Wrong! For our tracking business, software engineering is not only an enabler, but its DNA: Here we process and harmonize data of 15 Million products of 425.000 shopping outlets worldwide. One of the finest business intelligence engines provides customers with millions of reports and continuous online analytics.
Hundreds of Terabytes raw data per year, high-end server technology including several Superdomes servers with thousands of CPU cores to process up to 40b fact records for analytics is our daily business. And we are growing by 20-30% per year.
This is only possible with extraordinary people.
And that’s why we are looking for YOU! A passionate Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)
Job description
You will be a pivotal member of our development team and have the opportunity to lay the technical foundations of a new greenfield cloud native data analytics product we are building. You will be working as part of a cross functional agile team of technologists and data scientists a product owner and technical architect.
About you:
You are a passionate software engineer who knows the ins and outs of software engineering and how it fits the broader SDLC. Modelling the world, thinking in terms of design patterns, object oriented design, functional programming, test driven development are your second nature. You have written several applications from scratch, many are still in production to the delight of their users. You enjoy working in a team of like minded professionals and keen to provide feedback on other's code as well as act on feedback received on yours. You are used to work in agile teams delivering small, incremental improvements through continuous delivery pipelines. You are proud of the quality, security and robustness of the code you write, and because you write your code with an in depth understanding of the execution environment these qualities translate to the systems you implement as well.
We look for a profile with complementary skills, such as:
- 5+ years of commercial software development experience with an open source Java stack
- Expert Knowledge of the Spring framework and ecosystem
- REST, API design
- No-SQL Databases such as Mongo DB and Search indexes such as Elasticsearch
- Strong understanding of Linux
- Comprehensive automated testing experience with continuous integration and Continuous delivery pipelines
- Considered as a plus, you had experience with:
- AWS or similar cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud
- Running micro-services at scale
- Wrapping your microservices with GraphQL
- OS Containerization with Docker or rkt
- Lambda architecture and implementing it with Apache Kafka, Storm and Spark
- Flow based processing using Apache Ni-Fi
- Used to work in agile Scrum teams, ideally experienced with SAFe
On top, your English communication skills are great, you are a team-player and tech-obsessed, always on the hunt for the latest and hottest shots!
Why else GfK?
- Any advantages of a Global Player combined with an agile start-up atmosphere
- Annual budget to attend development programs and conferences
- Free language classes
- 30 days holiday per year (plus 24.12 / 31.12.)
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
- Occupational pensions
- Group accident insurance also for private life
- Sports and health management
- Childcare during the summer holidays
- 5 days paid leave for each child sickness
- Subsidized canteen / meals and free coffee/water
- Visa sponsorship and relocation service to help anyone moving from abroad
Our doors in our newly built open-concept office space are open for everyone and we are free of stereotyped thinking. The power of our team grows with the variety of individual perspectives and that’s why we need YOU!
Let’s design and shape our exciting future together. Right here. Right now. Together!
Just send an email to Maximilian
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