Lead Software Engineer Porto

Lead Software Engineer
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

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About The Job

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building
- edge applications that power our global platform, ensuring stability, security, and adaptability as we continually innovate. Your expertise will directly shape the future of our services, impacting thousands of users worldwide!

You will lead by example, mentoring team members, reviewing code, and delivering scalable, elegant solutions. Collaborating closely with Quality Assurance engineers, Product Owners, Analysts, and Dev
Ops specialists, you’ll drive seamless integration and knowledge sharing across teams. By planning work, producing reliable estimates, and maintaining clear documentation, you’ll lay the foundation for a
- performing, resilient platform that meets evolving business needs. This role is central to achieving our vision of delivering
- class solutions.

Job Goals

• Adapt to ambiguity by solving complex problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to align technical goals, foster
  - team influence, and enhance architecture.
• Support enhancements and technical direction for existing microservices written in. NET, ensuring performance and reliability.
• Design and implement new microservices with a focus on rapid development and seamless deployment to production.
• Contribute to setting the team’s technical direction and best practices, establishing benchmarks for excellence.
• Estimate and plan the technical roadmap for the team’s managed services to ensure strategic alignment and delivery.
• Ensure high code quality by consistently writing and maintaining automated tests that safeguard stability.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Expertise in Object-Oriented Programming: A strong understanding of
  - oriented software development concepts, including SOLID principles and design patterns, with proficiency in Microsoft. NET Core, C#, and related technologies.
• Cloud and Microservices Knowledge: Experience designing and developing cloud solutions, particularly with Azure, and practical knowledge of microservice architecture and
  - based development like Docker.
• Secure and Scalable Solutions: Familiarity with secure coding practices and a solid grasp of cyber security threats, alongside the ability to develop synchronous/asynchronous communication systems like Web APIs or messaging patterns.
• Database and Source Control Expertise: Practical skills in constructing complex queries using SQL databases (e. g. , Microsoft SQL Server, My
  SQL) and fluency with Git or similar source control systems.

What’s In It For You

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.
• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday
• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.
• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.
• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Market Research

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