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We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Backend Engineer to join our growing team. If you're driven by clean code, cloud-native development, and scalable systems.
As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power our products. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to build solutions that are secure, efficient, and built for scale.
Required Skills and Qualifications- 2+ years of experience of Backend Development
- Experience in Python for backend development.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying cloud-native applications in AWS.
- Solid understanding of RESTful API development.
- Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
- Strong understanding of databases, both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB).
- Comfortable working with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Experience in Data Engineering.
- Knowledge or hands-on with AWS ecosystem beyond basic services.
- Exposure to SDET practices – both manual and automated testing.
- Willingness to support Data Engineering or QA/SDET tasks during lighter backend workloads.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
