We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.
About the job
As a Trainee Software Engineer, you will play a vital role in our mission to deliver innovative and high-quality applications that support our global customer base. This role is essential to ensuring the stability, adaptability, and security of our platform while driving its evolution with new features and products. Your contributions will help shape the tools and technologies that better connect brands with people worldwide!
In this position, you will collaborate with a dynamic team, contributing to software development projects that enhance our platform's capabilities. You will take part in breaking down feature requests into manageable tasks, ensuring effective planning and execution. Working within a supportive environment, you’ll gain hands-on mentorship from experienced colleagues and become an integral part of a team committed to collective success.
Job Goals
Contribute to the development of scalable and reliable software applications to enhance the platform's functionality.
Participate actively in sprint planning, team discussions, and code reviews to ensure smooth project execution.
Learn and apply best practices in coding and software design to produce maintainable and efficient code.
Collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams to deliver features that meet customer needs.
Engage in troubleshooting and debugging tasks to ensure the stability and security of the platform.
Develop technical skills and industry knowledge through mentorship, training, and hands-on experience.
Adopt Agile methodologies to foster transparency and teamwork within the development process.
Ideal Skills & Capabilities
Proficiency in programming concepts and object-oriented principles, with hands-on knowledge of developing and maintaining backend applications using technologies like Microsoft .NET and C#.
Experience with front-end development tools and frameworks such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks like Angular or React.
Understanding of APIs, cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure), and familiarity with container-based development such as Docker.
Basic knowledge of database systems, including SQL and NoSQL options like Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB.
Familiarity with version control systems like Git and an interest in modern architectures such as Microservices is a strong plus.
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.
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 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.
Location
Porto, R. Dom João IPortugalKantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.