Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) - Mumbai / Bangalore

Gracenote is the content business unit of Nielsen that powers the world of media entertainment. Our metadata solutions help media and entertainment companies around the world deliver personalized content search and discovery, connecting audiences with the content they love.

We’re at the intersection of people and media entertainment. With our cutting-edge technology and solutions, we help audiences easily find TV shows, movies, music and sports across multiple platforms. 

As the world leader in entertainment data and services, we power the world’s top streaming platforms, cable and satellite TV providers, media companies, consumer electronics manufacturers, music services and automakers to navigate and succeed in the competitive streaming world.

Our metadata entertainment solutions have a global footprint of 80+ countries, 100K+ channels and catalogs, 70+ sports and 100M+ music tracks, all across 35 languages.

Job Purpose

• Develop and enhance our flagship Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports metadata software solutions.
• Design applications with a Platform-first mentality where scale, consistency and reliability are at the core of every decision. 

Job Description

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
• Design software with a Product-owner mentality: your software is the product and as such you own the product as much as any business person does.
• Work within small, highly configurable teams to deliver software in rapid increments using an iterative approach.
• Develop applications to catalog and power the world’s largest entertainment metadata repository across the Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports verticals.
• Interact with Product, Editorial and Client Experience teams to constantly refine the Gracenote offering. 

Role Requirements:

• Passionate about software development and especially Frontend development
• Competency in Javascript/Typescript and Python
• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks like React/Nextjs/Vue with 2 years of work experience.
• Have experience working with APIJSON, JSONP or XML
• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management and distributed systems
• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields 

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields
• 4+ years of work experience with Java programming language
• Experience with SQL / NoSQL technologies like RDS (Postgres, MySQL), Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience specifically with AWS.
• Experience with containers (docker, containers) and kubernetes.
• Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.
• History of open source contributions
• A personal tech blog
• A passion for exploring new programming languages