10 hours ago
Copenhagen, DenmarkSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement technical solutions for backend services and API integrations while reviewing code.
- Build and maintain orchestration and gateway components, workflow steps, partner API clients, internal APIs, and connected services.
- Collaborate with Product, Lead Engineers, and teams across audience, data, and performance.
- Improve integrations through authentication, retries, idempotency, rate limiting, and clear error handling.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and contract tests and contribute to safe CI/CD releases.
- Improve structured logging, metrics, tracing, observability, and auditability.
- Investigate incidents, fix bugs, update runbooks, address technical debt, and share knowledge.
Requirements
- Typically three or more years of professional software engineering experience in backend, platform, or API-focused roles, or equivalent practical experience.
- Production experience building and operating backend services and APIs, including REST/HTTP services or webhooks.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin; Python is preferred.
- Experience integrating external or internal APIs, including authentication, pagination, request and response handling, error models, and operational debugging.
- Experience with Git, unit and integration testing, contract testing or equivalent quality practices, and CI/CD.
- Experience with a cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure and containerized deployment; Docker or Kubernetes exposure is beneficial.
- Familiarity with asynchronous or event-driven systems such as queues, background jobs, or workflow steps, plus interest in infrastructure as code and production observability.
- Nice-to-have experience includes workflow or orchestration systems, internal API-consuming tools or interfaces, AdTech or MarTech data, monorepos, sensitive data, privacy principles, Terraform, mature observability, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, or agentic and tool-registry patterns.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with passionate, inspired people and contribute to projects at global scale.
- Challenging and stimulating work with creative problem solvers.
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams in the office around four days per week; accommodations or flexibility may be discussed with the hiring team.
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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.