Back-End Engineer

The job overview for the Backend Software Engineer position at WPP is to design, develop, and deliver a range of products/services within a collaborative team. The focus is on engineering best practices and continuous improvement, with a primary focus on building the 'back-end' of the product. The role requires excellent knowledge of the DevOps process and the ability to work with large and complex codebases to ensure a leading-edge product. The engineer will also work closely with stakeholders, provide technical leadership, and contribute to the management of technical debt.

• Work closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure systems are fit for purpose
• Collaborate with Engineering Lead & Product leads across other product areas
• Occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects
• Occasionally provide technical leadership to ensure appropriate implementation
• Influence the management of technical debt across projects
• Serve as contact/escalation point for back-end people issues
• Work with operational leads to onboard new team members effectively
• Collaborate with colleagues to complete estimations for scope of work
• Conduct regular code review and ensure timely completion of PRs
• Manage stakeholders' expectations and provide technical insight
• Demonstrate significant experience in Cloud Computing, preferably GCP
• Translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• Utilize test-driven development and automated test frameworks
• Apply Agile methodologies in project working and commercial development processes
• Design microservice architecture patterns
• Utilize GCP extensively
• Have 2+ years of Python development experience
• Have 2+ years of Java development experience
• Design, build, and deploy applications from scratch.

• Significant experience of working with stakeholders to manage expectations and provide technical insight
• Significant and demonstrable Cloud Computing experience with knowledge of Cloud Native products preferably GCP
• An ability to understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions rapidly and effectively
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development alongside use of automated test frameworks, mocking/stubbing
• Proven experience of project working and commercial development processes - particularly Agile methodologies
• Significant and demonstrable experience designing microservice architecture patterns
• Ideally, you have used GCP extensively
• 2+ years of Python development experience
• 2+ years of Java development experience
• Experience with designing, building and deploying applications from scratch

• Passionate, inspired people
• Scale and opportunity
• Challenging and stimulating work