Senior back-end developer (Initial 3 month day-rate contract)

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore.

WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. 

Job title:                                                Typescript Developer

Location:                                               London

Type of position:                                  Contract

Division/dept:                                       Cloud Engineering

Reports to:                                            Head of Cloud Engineering

Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands. 

 

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. 

 

We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia.

 

Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our clients’ successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

The opportunity:   We are looking for a talented senior developer/architect that thrives under pressure, enjoys working in small teams, rolling up their sleeves and mucking in.  Someone who has expert knowledge of Typescript, AWS Services, Express and NodeJS to join an exciting new project as part of our wider AI initiative to help redefine SDLC with agentic workflows. This is a great opportunity to get hands on with the latest AI technologies to build something enterprise grade and production ready.  You will need to be comfortable designing, building, coding and managing AI agents in typescript.   What we want from you:  ·       Extensive knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js ·       An understanding of AWS Serverless products, specifically Fargate and DynamoDB etc  ·       Understanding traditional Design Patterns  ·       Understanding DevOps principles (ideally with experience of the NRWL NX Monorepo)  ·       Understanding an Infrastructure-as-Code language (ideally Pulumi)  ·       Test-Driven development, with a quality-driven mindset  ·       Communicating, with excellent written and spoken skills  ·       Data Modelling  ·       Solid understanding of GITHUB  ·       A can-do attitude and a hunger for technology. If you know some of this, even better:  ·       Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol ·       Vercel’s AI SDK ·       Mastra SDK ·       Contribute to Open Source projects  ·       Diagrams-as-code  ·       Understanding of modern authentication / authorization protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC)  ·       Consideration of cross cutting concerns (e.g. Observability, Security)

 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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