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Who We Are VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. In 2026, VML was named Campaign’s Global Network of the Year and ranked #2 Creative Network of the Year at Cannes Lions. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore. VML is part of WPP , the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel. For more information, please visit www.vml.com and follow along on LinkedIn #WeAreVML. The Role We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team and contribute to our Open Intelligence initiative. This is a pivotal role for an engineer passionate about building robust, scalable, and automated data infrastructure. You will apply core software engineering principles to design, develop, and maintain the foundational systems that power our global media ecosystem. You'll be instrumental in shaping our data platform, focusing on high-performance data ingestion, processing, and exposure through well-engineered services. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, building reliable systems, and leveraging cutting-edge development and automation technologies. You will collaborate closely with team members, product stakeholders, and data scientists to ensure our platform is not only meeting current needs but is also future-proofed and highly performant. The role is in our lovely Copenhagen offices at Nørrebro, where you will join a larger team of roughly 50 people working on Open Intelligence. What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and automated data ingestion services and pipelines, leveraging Python and robust web service integrations. Develop and integrate with external REST APIs using Python to acquire and process diverse data sources, ensuring reliability and performance. Design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform to ensure scalable, reproducible, and secure data environments. Develop and evolve internal web services and APIs to expose data platform capabilities to other engineering teams and applications. Contribute to identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing data access, with opportunities to develop critical components in high-performance compiled languages. Champion and implement best practices for automation, CI/CD, testing, and observability within our data platform. Contribute to designing and building strong data governance and quality frameworks to ensure services are accurate and work consistently throughout their lifetime. Stay curious, explore new tools, techniques, and technologies that can help us build smarter, faster, and more performant systems. What You’ll Bring 3+ years of experience in Backend Engineering/Software Engineering, with a strong focus on building scalable, data-intensive systems or platforms. Exceptional proficiency in Python for backend development, automation, and data processing. Proven experience designing, developing, and consuming web services and APIs. Hands-on expertise with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management on cloud platforms. Demonstrable experience with automation principles, CI/CD pipelines, robust testing methodologies, and version control (Git). Strong interest in high-performance compiled languages such as Scala, Rust, or Go, and an eagerness to apply these where performance is critical. Familiarity with adtech- and/or martech data and terminology is a plus. Strong communication skills — you can effectively explain complex technical concepts to various audiences. A proactive approach to solving problems and continuously improving systems. What We Offer You'll find: A supportive, inclusive culture built on trust, ambition and collaboration. Access to world class learning and development opportunities across the WPP network. Competitive salary, benefits and a focus on wellbeing. The chance to make a real impact shaping how data powers the next generation of media. #LI-EMEA We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. When you click "Submit Application", this will send any information you add below to VML. Before you do this, we think it's a good idea to read through our Recruitment Privacy Policy . California residents should read our California Recruitment Privacy Notice . This explains what we do with your personal data when you apply for a role with us, and, how you can update the information you have provided us with or how to remove it.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
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