7 days ago
Gurgaon, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and technical roadmaps for TypeScript/Node.js or Python systems across multiple teams.
- Write, review and ship production code while leading hands-on work in testing, profiling and AI-first delivery.
- Define and maintain standards for API design, data, reliability, security, observability and testing.
- Review architecture decision records, challenge assumptions and document technical trade-offs.
- Decide with Platform Engineering how AWS Lambda and Kubernetes are used, including cost, capacity and reliability implications.
- Lead responses to serious production incidents and performance problems and drive root-cause remediation.
- Drive migrations, framework upgrades and deprecations across multiple codebases through completion.
- Define approved AI models, SDKs, agentic frameworks, Claude Code practices and evaluation and release processes.
- Collaborate with product, engineering and business leaders across regions to turn business goals into technical plans.
- Set hiring standards, develop interview materials, calibrate interviewers and provide recruiter screening criteria.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders and build an engineering community of practice.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 11 years of professional software development experience in TypeScript and Node.js or Python, including 5 years of architecture across multiple systems.
- At least 3 years owning engineering standards adopted beyond the candidate's team and mentoring senior engineers.
- Expertise in TypeScript with Node.js or Python, practical experience in the other backend language and experience with React and full-stack conventions.
- Experience designing REST APIs with OpenAPI, JSON and Protocol Buffers, including versioning, idempotency and rate limiting.
- Strong PostgreSQL expertise plus experience with Prisma, TypeORM or SQLAlchemy, DynamoDB, MongoDB and Redis.
- Experience designing asynchronous systems with SQS, Kafka, BullMQ or Celery and applying reliability patterns such as retries, dead-letter queues, outbox and saga patterns.
- Experience running production services on AWS or GCP using Lambda and Kubernetes, with Terraform or AWS CDK and canary or blue/green deployments.
- Experience with unit, integration, contract and end-to-end testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, pytest, Testcontainers, Pact and Playwright.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, CloudWatch, performance profiling, SLOs, dashboards and incident response.
- Knowledge of secure coding, OWASP Top 10, API Security Top 10, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS and identity providers such as Okta, Keycloak and Cognito.
- Experience with architecture decision records, technical roadmaps, trunk-based development, GitHub Flow, feature flags, CI/CD and large-scale migrations.
- Experience using Claude Code and building production features with the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs, including tool calling, evaluations and agentic services.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and engineering, product and business stakeholders across regions.
- Preferred qualifications include a B.Tech or B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field, open-source library maintenance, multi-region and disaster-recovery architecture, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls, multi-agent systems, LangGraph, Google ADK, Anthropic Agent SDK, engineering-productivity measurement and a second backend language.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams in the office around four days per week, with accommodations or flexibility available through the hiring team.
- Opportunity to work with passionate, inspired people on WPP Open at global scale.
- Access to challenging and stimulating projects with creative problem-solving opportunities.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDatadogGitGoogle Cloud PlatformJestKubernetesMongoDBNode.jsPostgreSQLpytestPythonReactRedisTerraformTypeScript
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About WPP
WPP is a public advertising and marketing services group that provides creative, media, data, and public relations solutions to global brands. It operates agency networks including Ogilvy, VML/GroupM, Grey, and AKQA, generating revenue from agency fees and media investment management. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in London, it serves clients across 100+ markets worldwide.