7 days ago
Gurgaon, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own architecture and technical roadmaps for TypeScript and Node.js or Python systems across multiple teams.
- Write, review, and ship production code while leading hands-on work on difficult technical problems, testing, profiling, and AI-first delivery.
- Set and maintain standards for API design, data, reliability, security, observability, testing, infrastructure, and engineering practices.
- Review architecture decisions, establish reference architectures and style guides, and determine standards exceptions.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes decisions, including cost, capacity, and reliability consequences.
- Lead serious production incidents, performance investigations, migrations, framework upgrades, and deprecations through completion.
- Define the organization’s approved AI models, SDKs, agentic frameworks, Claude Code practices, evaluation processes, release gates, and governance.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and business leaders across regions to translate business goals into technical plans.
- Set hiring standards, develop interview materials, calibrate interviewers, and provide screening criteria to recruiters.
- 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 the candidate’s own team and mentoring senior engineers.
- Expertise in one of TypeScript with Node.js or Python and practical experience in the other backend language.
- Experience setting full-stack conventions involving React, APIs, shared components, and frontend/backend boundaries.
- Experience designing REST APIs with OpenAPI, JSON, Protocol Buffers, versioning, pagination, idempotency, and rate limiting.
- Fluency in PostgreSQL and experience with Prisma, TypeORM, or SQLAlchemy, plus DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Redis data modeling or usage.
- Experience designing asynchronous systems with queues or streams, retries, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers, outbox patterns, and saga patterns.
- Experience running production services on AWS or GCP using Lambda and Kubernetes, and defining infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Experience with canary and blue/green deployments, test-driven development, unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Datadog, CloudWatch, latency profiling, SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and performance budgets.
- Experience applying OWASP Top 10 and API Security Top 10 and designing authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and workload identity.
- Experience with GitHub Flow, feature flags, CI/CD pipelines, dependency policies, migrations, and deprecations.
- Experience using Claude Code and building production features with Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs, including tool calling, evaluations, guardrails, and human review.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and engineering, product, and business stakeholders across regions.
- 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 large-scale projects and challenging technical work.
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams in the office approximately four days per week; accommodations or flexibility may be discussed with the hiring team.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDatadogGoogle 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.