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.
- Set platform direction for AWS Lambda and Kubernetes, including cost, capacity, and reliability decisions.
- Lead major production incident response and drive root-cause remediation.
- Drive migrations, framework upgrades, deprecations, and large-scale changes through completion.
- Define approved AI models, SDKs, agentic frameworks, Claude Code practices, and evaluation and release processes.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders across regions to translate goals into technical plans.
- Set hiring standards, create interview materials, calibrate interviewers, and support recruiter screening.
- Mentor senior engineers and build a technical leadership community through reviews, talks, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 11 years of professional software development experience in TypeScript and Node.js or Python, including 5 years of architecture across multiple systems.
- 3 years of owning engineering standards adopted beyond one team and mentoring senior engineers.
- Expertise in TypeScript with Node.js or Python, practical experience in the other backend language, and experience setting backend and frontend coding patterns.
- Experience with React, REST APIs, OpenAPI, JSON, and Protocol Buffers.
- Strong PostgreSQL expertise and experience with Prisma, TypeORM, or SQLAlchemy, plus DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Redis data modeling or usage.
- Experience designing asynchronous systems with SQS, Kafka, BullMQ, or Celery and applying reliability patterns such as retries, dead-letter queues, outbox, and saga patterns.
- Production experience with AWS or GCP, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, 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, alerting, and performance budgets.
- Knowledge of secure coding, OWASP Top 10, API Security Top 10, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, workload identity, Okta, Keycloak, and Cognito.
- Experience leading architecture across services and teams, large-scale migrations, deprecations, and engineering practice improvements.
- Experience with Claude Code, LLM concepts, Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs, tool calling, evaluations, agentic services, guardrails, and human review.
- Preferred: B.Tech or B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; widely used open-source library maintenance; multi-region and disaster-recovery architecture; SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls; multi-agent systems and frameworks such as LangGraph, Google ADK, or Anthropic Agent SDK; engineering-productivity measurement; and experience in the second backend language.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with passionate, inspired people on challenging projects at significant global scale.
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams generally in the office around four days per week; accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with the hiring team.
- Inclusive culture emphasizing collaboration, creativity, continuous learning, and career growth.
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.