Job Information
The Economist Software Engineer III in Gurugram, India
Introduction
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is a world leader in global business intelligence. We help businesses, the financial sector and governments to understand how the world is changing and how that creates opportunities to be seized and risks to be managed.
At our heart is a 50 year forward look, a global forecast of the majority of the world’s economies, we seek to analyse the future and deliver that insight through multiple channels and insights, allowing our clients to take better trading, investment and policy decisions.
We’re changing, embedding alternate data sources such as GPS and satellite data into our forecasting, products will increasingly be tailored to individual clients, driven by some of the most innovative data in the market. A highly collaborative team of Product Managers, Customer Experience and Product Engineering is being created with a focus on creating business and customer value driven by real time analytics alongside our traditional products.
We are transitioning to operating with agile product teams and adopting cloud native engineering practices and we need your help. As a back-end developer you will work with an amazing team of developers, designers and product managers to design and build applications to service the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) clients.
Accountabilities
How you will contribute:
Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development life-cycle
Apply team-based standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application
Identify complexity in projects/services/processes and proactively and works with the team to scope and prioritise resolutions
Design, write and deliver software to deliver on strategic direction
Works within, and encourages a Devops culture and Continuous Delivery process
Works within agile cross-functional product teams
Experience, skills and professional attributes
The ideal skills for this role include:
Main language speciality in .Net
Expert in Agile development methodologies
Experience of commercial web software development experience (using HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Complete understanding of data and content flows through CMS and CDN systems
Experience in developing on public cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS
Hands-on technical experience
Capable of technical deep-dives into code and architecture
Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design
Expertise in problem solving and analysing global scale distributed systems
Effective communication skills
Job LocationsIndia-HR-Gurugram
ID 2024-10048
Function Technology