Job Description

Country Malaysia

Job Family Technology

Here at GfK, we strive to empower bold actions for sustainable growth. As a recognized global leader, we know how to innovate and push the boundaries to ensure both our clients and employees succeed, empowered by always-on intelligence.

Currently in the latter stages of our transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology, we are keen to grow our team as we continue to look to the future.



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

• Work with the architects and an Agile team to influence the overall system architecture and performance goals.
• Ensure timely delivery of software projects while maintaining the quality.
• Ensure high software quality by writing 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 initiatives (e.g. training) that improve working efficiency and quality.
• Actively contributing in agile practices, such as estimating and planning.
• Communicate well with team members
• Documenting technical effort from time to time

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

• 2+ years of commercial software development experience with an open source Java stack
• Knowledge of the Spring framework and ecosystem
• Experience in web development using JavaScript (React, Angular + TypeScript), ECMAScript
• Node.js
• REST, API design
• Basic understanding on using day-to-day version control tools like gitlab/ github/ bitbucket with its configuration and its general pipeline configuration
• No-SQL Databases such as Mongo DB and Search indexes such as Elasticsearch or Solr
• Experience with Google Cloud Functions
• Have automated testing experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Experience in unit testing and mocking frameworks (Junit, NUnit, JustMock, Mockito)
• End-to-End testing using Cypress, Selenium and Cucumber with Gherkin syntax
• Good understanding of Design Pattern and object oriented design (SOLID principles, Dependency Injection, Factory pattern)
• An open and collaborative mindset both within and outside your team
• Good communicator, fluent in English and ability to clearly express oneself
• Interest in helping other engineers become even better
• Willing to growth and learn and experiment new technologies

It would also be nice if you have:

• Good understanding of IT architectures
• Experience with enterprise web-applications
• Experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL database
• Experience in building Single Page Applications
• Experience in pre-processor languages for CSS (LESS or SASS)
• Google Cloud or similar could platforms
• Running micro-services at scale
• Have understanding of Linux
• Working experience in agile development like SAFe
• Wearing a Scrum Master hat from time to time

We are proud to be an ethical and honest company with an inclusive workplace that focuses on our employees' full potential. GfK is looking for self-starters to join our innovative team keen to take on a new challenge.

If you are interested and want to be part of the digital revolution, apply today. We are looking forward to meeting you!