Role Overview

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be at the core of our technology team, focusing on:

- **Design and Develop**: Designing and developing services and APIs, primarily using Golang.
- **Collaborate**: Collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless integration and optimal user experience.
- **Code Quality**: Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
- **Testing**: Creating and maintaining comprehensive unit tests.
- **Deployment**: Implementing and managing continuous deployment processes.
- **Team Spirit**: Demonstrating team spirit and initiative in an independent R&D environment.
- **Problem-Solving**: Engaging in creative problem-solving and creating long lasting solutions for our business.
- **Security**: Implementing best practices in software security and vulnerability management.

Role Requirements & Capabilities

We value agility and full-stack capabilities in our team. We're looking for individuals who exhibit the following competencies and attributes:

- **Educational Background**: Educational background in computer science, engineering, math, physics, IT, or related fields. Self-taught elite hackers are also welcome.
- **Self-Motivation**: Self-motivated, effective communicator, and capable of presenting and advocating for the team's work across different teams.
- **Code Quality**: A commitment to writing clean and high-quality code.
- **Learning and Mentorship**: Enthusiastic about learning, teaching, sparring, asking questions, and occasionally pair programming. Knowledge sharing is an essential part of our team's success.
- **Technical Proficiency**: Proficient in multiple programming languages; while our backends primarily use Golang, knowledge of Python, R, or JavaScript is advantageous.
- **Source Control**: Skilled in using GIT for source code control.
- **CI/CD**: Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as CircleCI.
- **Database Knowledge**: Knowledge of relational databases, particularly Postgres and MariaDB.
- **Queue Technologies**: Experience with queue technologies like RabbitMQ or SQS.
- **Cloud Services**: Familiarity with AWS or Azure services.
- **Containerization**: Proficient in using Docker, Docker Compose. Knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus.
- **Architectures**: Understanding of event driven architectures and monorepo architectures.
- **Testing**: Proven experience in writing automated unit tests and integration tests.
- **Problem-Solving Skills**: Proactive, positive, and resilient in challenging situations, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for team success.
- **Teamwork**: Excellent communication skills and a strong preference for collaborative teamwork.

Why join Kantar?

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 by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

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 that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and 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.