Back End Developer

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.

Why we're hiring:

WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry's largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This Team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.

What you'll be doing:

• Server-Side Development: Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications and databases
• API Integration: Create and manage APIs to support front-end and mobile applications
• Database Management: Develop and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity and security
• Performance Optimization: Ensure high performance and responsiveness of applications to requests from the front-end
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve issues, bugs, and bottlenecks in the backend code
• Security Implementation: Implement security protocols to protect data and applications
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct code reviews
• Testing and Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the functionality and reliability of applications
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for code, APIs, and development processes