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For almost 90 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world’s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer’s life - and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, ROI, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a diverse community of 8,000+ employees.

Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and will support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future, as we continue our evolution from Market Research provider to SaaS data solutions and consulting partner. We value extraordinary people and this is why we are looking for YOU to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge!

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer with GfK based in our Kuala Lumpur office you will be provided with a great opportunity to work as part of an agile team of technologist across two primary products within the GfK product ecosystem. Whether it be as part of the "Data in" Team or our Retail Platform division you will get to hone your craft as a software engineer working on the back end with Java but also to learn or brush up on modern DevOps tooling such as Docker and Kubernetes whilst gaining exposure to GCP.

We are looking for you, a Senior Software Engineer well versed in Java who Is passionate about building great products and is excited to work in a big data environment and learn from a multifaceted team where picking up frontend (React) or DevOps skills is encouraged.

You will be reporting to the Principal Software Engineer. You will work in hybrid work arrangement. You will be provided medical insurance.

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have accountabilities to:

• Work with the architects and an Agile team to influence the system architecture and performance goals.

• Ensure delivery of software projects while maintaining the quality.

• Write unit and integration tests in TDD approach.

• Identify and address application and data issues that affect application integrity.

• Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing.

• Suggest plans (e.g. training) that improve working efficiency and quality.

• Contribute in Agile practices, such as estimating and planning.

• Communicate well with team members

• Document technical effort from time to time

Our people in our teams are the most important, so we are looking for individuals who have the following:

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience with an open source Java stack

• Java 8 and above

• Spring Framework

• Spring Boot

• Data manipulation experience

• SQL – Postgres/ MySql

• Experience in unit testing and mocking frameworks (Junit, Mockito)

• ETL experience

• A queue or workflow system: Kafka / RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Pubsubs / Airflow

• RESTful API

• Microservices

• Spring security

• Containerization

• Docker

• Kbernetes

• AssertJ

• Logback

• CI/CD

• Google Cloud Platform

Our current stack:

Typescript, Node.js, React, Java, Spring, SQL, GCP, Spring boot, Microservices, Dockers, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Google Cloud

We integrate with: Auth0, OPA, Amplitude, Gainsight, Hotjar, Azure Active Directory/ AzureB2C

Theory:

• Full vocabulary of core creational, structural and behavioral software design patterns, and the ability to employ the cache, pool, strategy, chain of responsibility, observer and visitor patterns

• Experience with software concurrency theory, and the ability to control concurrency and ensure functional correctness of applications through the use of synchronisation primitives, concurrency patterns and transactions (lock, semaphore, monitor, promise, and future)

• The ability to design and implement an entire application from scratch

• The ability to manage code complexity in a large codebase through the appropriate application of software architecture principles (layering, modularisation) and software design patterns

• The ability to understand large codebases (a monolith or several smaller applications)

• In-depth understanding of software engineering principles and the ability to apply them

• Understand SOA and associated principles and be able to implement SOA with REST HTTP + JSON

We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal employment opportunity, focusing on all of our employees reaching their full potential. 

We respect and value every employee regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, personality, experience, culture, faith, socio-economic status, or physical or mental disabilities.

We endorse the core principles and rights set forth in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, promoting the universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality, and solidarity.

Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do on: https://www.gfk.com/about-gfk/diversity-and-inclusion

At GfK we work collaboratively with our colleagues but offer a flexible working approach, including dividing our time between office & remote working as well as the opportunity to flex our working hours around team core hours.

Don't meet every single requirement? Some people are less likely to apply unless they meet all the requirements listed in a job specification. GfK is looking for self-starters to join our innovative team keen to take on a new challenge. So, if you're excited about this role but your skills and experience don't align perfectly with every requirement we've listed, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.