Senior Back-End Engineer with GraphQL
Senior Back-End Engineer with GraphQL
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Who We Are:
At VML we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an everevolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise where creativity meets technology and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency part consultancy and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30000 employees across 150 offices in 64 markets each contributing to a culture that values connection belonging and the power of expertise spans the entire customer journey offering deep insights in communications commerce consultancy CRM CX data production and technology. We deliver endtoend solutions that result in revolutionary work.
Senior BackEnd Engineer with Graph QL required to join our Engineering team to work with one of our leading retail clients!
We are VML Enterprise Solutions a group of talented engineers tech experts and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology in 2024 we changed our name but at the same time we remaineda great team of people who deliver our best. We design build manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.
What youll get to do:
- Creating high quality productionready GraphQL code within Apollo GraphQL Framework.
- Drive forward the quality in code unit testing accessibility performance code reviews
- Deliver on an Agile workstream contributing to all standards ceremonies
- Ability to converse confidently with technical and nontechnical colleagues
- Build modular layouts reusable code and libraries for future use
- Collaborating with technical and nontechnical colleagues to escalate issues and highlight any areas that need wider team action
- Cooperate with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications and requirements for development
- Be involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
- Full endtoend ownership from idea to delivery covering ongoing maintenance expansion and scaling
- Stay current with evolving standards and technologies learning new skills as needed
- Support of the recruitment process in technical tests and team fit assessments
What we want from you:
- Mastery of GraphQL Typescript and JavaScript (ES6 adhering to industry defined coding standards
- Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation refinement sprint planning retrospective sprint demos
- Working experience of Apollo / Federated GraphQL
- Working experience of Stellate GraphQL
- A desire to write readable maintainable modular and extendable code
- Have extensive testing and debugging abilities using the browser console and other tools
- Knowledge of current trends and best practices in GraphQL
- Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
- Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
- Commercial experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing
- Willingness to contribute to both large complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
- Great attitude selfmotivated strong work ethic with strong ownership
- Have experience of integrating with a variety of external 3rd party systems
If you know some of this even better:
- Experience of eCommerce feeds and integrations
- Experience in building rapid prototypes
- Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
- Experience of mentoring junior members of the team
Whatwe can offer you:
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world well also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. Well empower you to make a difference allow you to be yourself and respect who you are.
At VML Enterprise Solutions:
Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the worlds leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces online retailers D2C B2B and social platforms. With over 4200 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 multichannel growth for worldleading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The CocaCola Company EY Bosch Unilever Ford DFS MercedesBenz Johnson & Johnson Nestl Sainsburys Selfridges Shell and Tiffany & Co.
Weve 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 were 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.
Please send over your CV in English
Interested in this role Get in touch with us:
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If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process please let us know.
At VML we are committed to fostering an allinclusive work environment that is both rewarding and careerforward. Our Inclusion Equity & Belonging initiatives alongside the VML Foundation reflect our dedication to giving back and making a positive impact in our communities and beyond. Our people are the heartbeat of our organizationcreators doers innovators makers and thinkerswho drive not just marketing but meaningful experiences that resonate in every action and interaction.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
