1 day ago
Copenhagen, DenmarkStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering squad by setting technical direction, prioritizing delivery, conducting design and code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
- Own the architecture and production health of activation, orchestration, API, database, partner gateway, internal integration, MCP, and agentic services.
- Drive API integration engineering covering authentication, rate limiting, idempotency, retries, versioning, and partner-driven changes.
- Partner with Product and sibling teams to create shippable, versioned contracts and align interfaces across teams.
- Establish production standards for CI/CD, testing, observability, auditability, and safe release practices.
- Track activation data flows, dependencies, technical debt, reliability, incidents, postmortems, and systemic fixes.
- Contribute hands-on to critical paths, new gateways, framework foundations, workflow runtimes, tool registries, and guardrail hooks.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, escalate blockers, and share knowledge across design reviews, stand-ups, and cross-team forums.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading engineers or owning a significant technical area.
- Proven experience delivering backend and API-centric systems, services, integrations, or platforms in production at meaningful scale.
- Strong experience building and operating REST/HTTP APIs and event- or workflow-driven systems with durable state, asynchronous jobs, or orchestration.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin, with sound software design, testing, and code review practices.
- Experience with third-party integrations, including authentication, error handling, versioning, operational monitoring, and partner-driven change.
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, unit testing, integration testing, and boundary or contract testing.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and deploying services with containers and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as Terraform and production observability using metrics, logs, and tracing.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain trade-offs to engineers, Product, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience leading orchestration, workflow, or agentic systems; full-stack exposure; AdTech or MarTech; monorepos; data privacy; audit trails; decision logs; and AI coding assistants or prompt engineering.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams in the office approximately four days per week in Copenhagen.
- Accommodations or flexibility may be discussed with the hiring team.
- Equal opportunity workplace committed to respect, belonging, and career progression.
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.