Cloud Serverless Developer (AWS) - Nearshore

<p>Cloud Serverless Developers wanted to join an exciting project to rewrite one of the UK’s largest loyalty programmes, opening the door to new and innovative approaches to loyalty. </p><p><em><strong>This role can be based anywhere from the EU </strong></em></p><p><strong>Please note that this job is a contract role, we are open to fully remote but the selection process will be conducted in English. </strong></p><p><strong>Please send over your CV in English</strong></p> <p><strong>What you’ll be doing:</strong></p> <p>This is a great opportunity to get involved from the beginning and will require you to be comfortable working with serverless technologies in small autonomous squads within our experienced team of Cloud developers, platform engineers and data engineers. </p> <p>We keep our knowledge fresh by continually looking for new technologies and sharing what we’ve learned. As part of our team, you will actively enjoy learning new technologies and developing your skills, and will contribute to this process.</p> <p><strong>What we want from you:</strong></p><ul> <li>Developing complex AWS cloud-native serverless applications (AWS Serverless) </li> <li>Using AWS Lambda, preferably written in TypeScript, (knowledge of Node.js is useful) </li> <li>Using AWS Serverless products, including API Gateway, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB etc </li> <li>Implementing a range of integration patterns, from SaaS APIs to GraphQL to FTP. </li> <li>Understanding DevOps principles &amp; VCS (ideally with experience of Monorepos &amp; GitHub) </li> <li>Understanding an Infrastructure-as-Code language (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) </li> <li>Understanding traditional Design Patterns </li> <li>Test-Driven development, with a quality-driven mindset </li> <li>Communicating, with excellent written and spoken skills</li> </ul> <p><strong>If you know some of this, even better:</strong></p><ul> <li>Diagrams-as-code </li> <li>Understanding of modern authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC) </li> <li>Consideration of cross cutting concerns (e.g. Observability, Security) </li> <li>Familiarity with Mulesoft </li> <li>Contribute to Open Source projects</li> </ul><p><strong>What we do: </strong>At Wunderman Thompson we inspire growth for ambitious brands. Within our commerce and technology division, that means inspiring people across the globe to shop online through seamless digital experiences.</p><p><strong>How we do it: </strong>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. </p><p>We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany &amp; Co. </p><p>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.</p><p><strong>What makes us different? </strong>Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, we’re unique in our ability to connect world-class strategic thinking and creative insight, with deep executional capability across technology and operations. We’re part of the<a href="https://www.wpp.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener"> WPP Group</a>, which gives us the talent, infrastructure and support of one of the largest agency networks in the world. </p><p>We were recognised by Forrester as a Leader in Commerce Services (Q1,2021) and in Digital Experience Services (Q2, 2022), and as Best Large Agency of the Year at the European Ecommerce Awards 2022. </p><p>In our Lisbon or Porto office, you’ll join a team of other specialists who are always ready to help each other. The team is part of our Wunderman Thompson Commerce and Technologies network and works in coordination with our Local and EMEA client leads.</p><p><em>If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know</em><em>.</em><br/></p><p><strong>At Wunderman Thompson, a WPP company, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that th