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As a Technical Lead, you’ll lead technical approaches and development of scalable platforms, frameworks, and developer tools that power long term projects for amazing global brands. Your expertise will drive high-performance architectures, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation, ensuring seamless execution at scale. Beyond building solutions, you’ll define best practices for the engineering team, improve developer experience, and create tools that empower teams to work more efficiently. Collaborating with producers, creatives, and engineers, you’ll bridge technology and innovation to bring visionary ideas to life.
If yu thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about scalability, automation, and platform development, this is the role for you!
Key ResponsibilitiesPlatform Engineering- Lead the development of scalable platforms, frameworks, and developer tools to enhance productivity and system reliability.
- Define best practices for scalable architectures, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, observability, and automation.
- Optimize infrastructure strategy, balancing Kubernetes and serverless architectures for cost efficiency, security, and high performance.
- Develop and execute a long-term platform roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Drive architectural decisions that ensure modularity, scalability, and performance.
- Improve developer experience by streamlining workflows and optimizing multi-region infrastructure for global scalability.
- Oversee implementation of large-scale solutions, ensuring high code quality, performance, and security.
- Manage technical project setup, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployments to maximize system stability.
- Ensure proactive monitoring and cost-efficient infrastructure decisions.
- Hire, onboard, and mentor engineers, fostering continuous learning and growth.
- Establish knowledge-sharing programs and career development initiatives.
- Bridge engineering, creative, and production teams to align technology with business and creative goals.
- Work closely with DevOps to optimize deployment strategies and ensure system reliability.
- Translate complex technical challenges into actionable insights for cross-functional teams.
- 5+ years of experience in engineering, platform development, or infrastructure architecture, focusing on scalability, automation, and developer experience.
- Proven expertise in platform engineering, including building reusable frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and developer productivity solutions.
- Strong leadership experience, including hiring, mentoring, and upskilling developers, fostering technical growth across teams.
- Full-stack proficiency, with hands-on experience in Backend (preferred), Infrastructure, Operations, Frontend, and Mobile development.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one tech stack, with the ability to architect, optimize, and scale complex systems.
- AI/ML and Creative Tech experience is a plus, particularly in AI-driven content generation, automation, and interactive experiences.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for cross-functional teams, including engineering, creative, production, and business.
- Experience in long-term engineering strategy, including platform roadmaps, cost optimization, and security best practices.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is a plus, but equivalent hands-on experience is highly valued.
Core Tech Stack
- Frontend: React, NextJS
- Backend: NodeJS, Python, Relational and Non-relational DBs, Websockets Message Queues & Event-Driven Systems
- CMS: Cloud-based and Hosted, Traditional and Headless
- Infrastructure: AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure
- Infrastructure Operations:
- Cloud-Native Managed Serverless Architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, etc)
- Frontend hosting (Cloudfront, S3, Lambda)
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or AWS CDK
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS)
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS CodePipeline
- Security & Observability: CloudWatch, SAST, DAST, SCAs
- Mobile: Hybrid and/or Native development
Preferred/Bonus Experience
- Backend: Java, GraphQL
- CMS: AEM
- AI & ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, Stable Diffusion, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker
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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.
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Monks is the global, purely digital, data-driven, 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.
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