Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
What does a Senior Technical Lead do at Hogarth?
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Technical Lead, with a strong focus and consistent experience on the back-end side of apps, to join our AI powered Intelligent Content product team.
As a Senior Technical Lead, you will lead your team members on delivering value, coding alongside them and guiding them through the entire software development lifecycle. This role requires strong technical skills, a deep understanding of front-end technologies and familiarity with back-end technologies, as well as excellent leadership and communication skills.
Our exciting product implements the latest AI technology, such as Computer Vision, Predictive Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing to inform how advertising content is performing across channel, market and format. It can then leverage the latest in Generative AI and Creative Automation to apply high performing content to branded designs, and deliver immediately into social, display and video channels, all accessible through a suite of sophisticated and intuitive web apps. The product is already used by some of the world's largest brands, and we are now in a period of rapid growth that requires more hands-on deck to deliver on the ambitious roadmap we have.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the back-end development effort from a technical perspective
- Work independently and within the team adhering to high technical standards, developing first-class solutions that meet our client needs and quality expectations, and providing accurate estimates
- Work effectively within an agile, deadline-driven production process to complete project tasks within rapid, iterative cycles
- Be an integral part of the code review process, providing constructive feedback against code produced by other team members
- Ensure good communication is maintained with other team members / departments
- Work closely with the Engineering Manager, other Technical Leads, Product and Project Managers to ensure that projects are taken from creation to completion - on time and on budget
- Work closely with Solution Architects to ensure correct Engineering Principles and Practices are incorporated into the design and delivery of solutions
- Accountable to lead development initiatives
- Write concise, clean and understandable code, applying appropriate design patterns
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure they meet the acceptance criteria
- Use standard refactoring methods and appropriate design patterns to ensure code is kept in a maintainable state
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in applications development and continually develop software engineering skills
- Investigate and participate in discussions on technical best practices and help identify optimal technical solutions
- Actively contribute to departmental learning and standards through involvement in presentations/demonstrations, and participate in the continual drive for collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Train and mentor other members of the team
Reporting lines and key stakeholders:
This role reports to the Intelligent Content Engineering Manager.
You will work closely with the rest of the Intelligent Content engineering team as well as the Product team.
Requirements
- Strong experience in NodeJS
- Strong experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, npm/yarn
- Experience in relational and/or document databases
- Experience in Cloud Technologies – AWS preferred
- Experience with Serverless architecture is a must
- Experience with Microservices is a must
- Experience with using AI services is a must
- Experience with Monorepos is a plus
- Git and Git workflows
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines (we’re using GitHub actions)
- Applying SOLID principles as a default modus operandi
- Advanced knowledge about the automated tests best practices
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Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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What We Do
Born to make the best work, brilliantly.
We combine craft insight and technology to bring your creative work to life.
Hogarth was founded 15 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 6000 people, across 35 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.
