Backend Engineer
Posted 18 Dec 2025
Advertised as “Backend Engineer ”
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- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
Who We Are
VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC Creative 100. 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.