Backend Engineer

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit <wppmedia.com>. 2190 - Back-end Engineer (Mid-Weight)

Role Summary and Impact

Data, Technology and Analytics is WPP’s global data products and technology company. We’re on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation.

We work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. We deliver this through the Open Media Studio, an AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.

Back-end Engineer (Mid-weight)

As a Back-end Engineer, you’ll join a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, designers, strategists, and product experts. You’ll play a key role in delivering accessible, secure, performant, and scalable applications that make a real impact — all while developing your skills and contributing to a supportive, learning-focused engineering community. - Design, build, and evolve modern digital products using C#, TypeScript, and React (as applied to Next.js and Remix). - Develop APIs and backend services using .NET Core and relational databases, supporting composable and data-driven architectures. - Build and deploy in Azure, using App Services, Functions, and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. - Work closely with Product, UX, Strategy, and DevOps specialists to co-create high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. - Integrate with headless SaaS tools like Contentful, DatoCMS, Prismic, Algolia, and others in the composable ecosystem. - Apply DevOps and performance engineering practices — including caching, observability, and scalability — to deliver resilient products. - Contribute to our Software Engineering discipline, sharing knowledge and helping shape how we build and deliver technology at Code.