Get to Know our Team:  

In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.

The Opportunity:      

Agoda is hiring experienced Software Developers to work on high-scale, mission-critical systems focused on the design and development of APIs that support millions of user search requests each day. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, building reliable distributed systems, and influencing architecture at scale.

In this Role, you'll get to

• Lead the development of product features, experiments, technical initiatives, and complex systems.
• Act as a technical leader by shaping architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and guiding technology choices.
• Continuously improve system architecture and drive better software design and engineering practices.
• Play a key role in strengthening agile and scrum ways of working.
• Collaborate closely with backend, client-side, and infrastructure teams to deliver the best technical solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance products, code quality, and development processes.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code while supporting others in doing the same.
• Influence and drive important technical decisions across the organization.

What You’ll Need to Succeed 

• 10+ years of experience building performance-critical applications in production environments using Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#
• Proven experience leading projects, technical initiatives, and/or engineering teams, with full ownership of the systems involved
• Hands-on experience with data platforms such as SQL, Cassandra, or Hadoop, and a solid understanding of selecting the right data solution for different application needs
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Demonstrated excellence in software development and coding
• A proven ability to improve team productivity and effectiveness through KPI-driven engineering practices
• Strong software architecture skills, with experience driving architectural decisions within a team
• A passion for software craftsmanship, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

It’s Great If You Have 

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience building large-scale distributed products
• Core engineering infrastructure tools like Git for source control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration and Puppet for deployment
• Hands-on experience working with technology like queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MSMQ), Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Play framework, Akka library  

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About the Role:

We’re looking for a team player with excellent interpersonal skills & service oriented. Creative & out of the box thinker. An autodidact, quick, effective and versatile who’s able to change directions in midstream. Independent & Accountable.

What you’ll be spending your time on

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the company's products
• Building and maintaining high-performance, fault tolerant, scalable ALM system, from Version control, Builds and Deployments to Monitoring and configuration management
• Maintain the application layer of our public cloud and private cloud
• Develop and integrate infrastructure tools in support of our production system
• Automate the Provisioning and configuration of Windows/Linux environments
• Work closely with product, QA, developers and IT/operations departments to streamline their working methods
• As a core member of the team, you will participate in 'On-Call' duties on Payoneer production systems, working in non-conventional hours include weekends and holidays (from time to time)

Have you done this kind of stuff?

• BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
• At least 6 years’ experience as DevOps Engineer
• A minimum of 5 years of exposure running production workloads (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Microservices architecture & container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and source control management tools (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Artifactory etc...)
• Experience with GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux)
• Experience with Configuration Managements tools like Chef, Ansible or Puppet
• Proven Scripting capabilities: PowerShell/Bash/Python
• High level Linux OS expertise
• Programming experience skills (C#, NodeJS - advantage)
• Experience managing application servers and web servers
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana and ELK)
• Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement

Not a must but a great advantage

• Experience in SQL
• Experience with software development and development frameworks
• Experience with event streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ…
• Provisioning and operating NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch …
• Knowledge and understanding Storage and Networking

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Role Summary

We are hiring Senior Engineers who combine solid software engineering fundamentals with proven proficiency in AI-assisted development. This role is designed for engineers who have actively used AI coding tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI only) for at least one year and can leverage these capabilities to ship higher-quality code faster. You will be embedded in product engineering squads, leading feature development, mentoring junior engineers, and championing AI-first development practices across the team.

What Makes This Role Different

This is not an AI research role - it is a core engineering role for engineers who use AI as a force multiplier. We expect you to:

• Use AI coding assistants daily to accelerate development without sacrificing code quality.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security vulnerabilities, and maintainability.
• Share best practices for AI-assisted workflows with the broader engineering team.
• Help define team standards for responsible and effective AI tool adoption.

Key Responsibilities

1  Feature Engineering & Delivery

• Design, build, and ship production-quality features across the full stack or within your domain (backend, frontend, platform, or data).
• Leverage AI coding assistants to write, refactor, document, and test end-to-end code efficiently.
• Translate product requirements and technical specifications into clean, maintainable implementations.
• Lead feature squads for medium-complexity initiatives from design through deployment.
• Participate in and drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical estimation sessions.

2  AI-Augmented Development Practices

• Champion the use of AI pair-programming tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) across the engineering org.
• Develop and document internal guidelines for effective AI prompt engineering within coding workflows.
• Conduct training sessions or knowledge-share presentations on maximising productivity with AI tools.
• Critically audit AI-generated code for logic errors, security issues, and performance anti-patterns before merging.
• Stay updated on the latest AI development tooling and evaluate new tools for team adoption.

3  Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Write testable, modular, and well-documented code following the team's style guides and design principles.
• Drive test-driven development (TDD) and maintain code coverage targets.
• Perform thorough code reviews with constructive feedback; uphold engineering standards.
• Identify and address technical debt proactively; contribute to architecture improvements.
• Participate in RCA (root cause analysis) for production incidents; implement lasting fixes.

4  Architecture & Technical Design

• Contribute to system design discussions, proposing solutions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Create and maintain technical design documents (TDDs), ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and API contracts.
• Evaluate and adopt relevant third-party libraries, APIs, and SaaS tools with a security-first mindset.
• Collaborate with platform / DevOps teams on observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

5  Mentoring & Team Growth

• Mentor 1–2 mid-level engineers; conduct regular 1:1 technical coaching sessions.
• Onboard new team members by sharing codebase context, tooling setup, and team practices.
• Contribute to a culture of psychological safety, learning from failures, and continuous improvement.

6  Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Operations to deliver delightful, high-quality user experiences.
• Coordinate with data and AI/ML teams to integrate model endpoints, APIs, and AI features into product surfaces.
• Participate in customer-facing escalations where deep technical expertise is required.

Required Qualifications

1  Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Candidates without a degree but with a strong portfolio and demonstrable project history will be considered.

2  Experience

• 3 – 5 years of professional software engineering experience in a product-focused environment.
• Minimum 1 year of active, hands-on experience using AI coding tools in professional work (not just personal projects).
• Track record of shipping production features end-to-end with measurable business impact.

3  Technical Skills — Core Engineering

• Languages: Proficiency in at least one of — Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or Kotlin.
• Web / API: REST, GraphQL, gRPC; familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure — compute, storage, serverless, and managed services.
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI); IaC basics (Terraform/Pulumi).
• Testing: Unit, integration, and e2e testing frameworks; TDD/BDD familiarity.
• Version Control: Git, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), PR workflows.

4  AI Tooling Skills (Mandatory)

• Demonstrated proficiency with at least one AI coding assistant (Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex CLI).
• Ability to craft effective prompts for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation tasks.
• Experience reviewing and validating AI-generated code for correctness and security.
• Understanding of limitations of LLM-based coding tools (hallucinations, context window, license risks).

5  Nice to Have

• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML features (e.g., calling LLM APIs, embedding models, RAG pipelines).
• Familiarity with agentic coding frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment with rapid iteration cycles.
• Knowledge of web security (OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices).

Behavioural Competencies

• AI-First Mindset: Naturally reaches for AI tools to accelerate tasks while maintaining engineering rigour.
• Ownership: Takes end-to-end accountability — from design to deployment to monitoring.
• Pragmatism: Balances perfect with shipped; knows when to iterate vs. over-engineer.
• Mentorship: Invests in the growth of peers and junior colleagues.
• Communication: Writes clearly (code comments, docs, Slack) and articulates trade-offs confidently.
• Curiosity: Continuously explores new tools, languages, and architectural patterns.
• Collaboration: Works well in cross-functional squads; builds trust quickly.

Role Summary

We are looking for a technically strong AI / ML Developer with hands-on expertise in training and fine-tuning Small Language Models (SLMs) and RAG Solutions. The ideal candidate will drive end-to-end AI Solutions — from dataset curation and pre-processing to training, evaluation, and production deployment. You will collaborate closely with product, product engineers, and infrastructure teams to build AI solutions that are efficient, scalable, and business-aligned.

Key Responsibilities

1  Model Design & Training

• Design, train, and fine-tune Small Language Models (SLMs) using frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• Conduct experiments with supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and instruction tuning.
• Implement efficient training pipelines leveraging distributed training (DDP, FSDP) across GPU/TPU clusters.
• Perform hyperparameter optimisation, ablation studies, and model selection based on benchmark results.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines for collecting, cleaning, tokenising, and pre-processing large-scale training corpora.

2  Model Evaluation & Quality

• Define and implement evaluation frameworks including perplexity, BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, and task-specific benchmarks.
• Conduct red-teaming, bias analysis, and safety evaluations to ensure responsible AI deployment.
• Benchmark models against established baselines (e.g., GPT-2, Phi, Mistral) and track performance over iterations.
• Collaborate with QA teams to build regression suites for model versioning and continuous evaluation.

3  MLOps & Deployment

• Containerise and deploy models using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native ML platforms (AWS SageMaker / GCP Vertex AI / Azure ML).
• Build and maintain model registries, experiment tracking (MLflow, Comet), and reproducible training pipelines.
• Optimise inference performance through quantisation (INT8, INT4), pruning, distillation, and ONNX/TensorRT conversion.
• Monitor model drift, data drift, and performance degradation in production; implement automated retraining triggers.

4  Research & Innovation

• Stay current with state-of-the-art NLP/LLM research; prototype and validate new techniques from published literature.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, technical documentation, and model cards.
• Explore parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods such as LoRA, QLoRA, and Adapter layers.
• Investigate and apply mixture-of-experts (MoE), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic workflows as needed.

5  Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work with product managers and domain experts to translate business requirements into model objectives and KPIs.
• Communicate model capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture reviews, sprint planning, and cross-functional design discussions.

Required Qualifications

1  Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Equivalent professional experience with a strong portfolio of delivered AI/ML projects will be considered.

2  Experience

• 4 – 6 years of professional experience in machine learning or NLP engineering.
• Minimum 2 years of direct, hands-on experience in training or fine-tuning language models (LLMs or SLMs).
• Demonstrable experience taking a model from dataset preparation through to production deployment.

3  Technical Skills — Core

• Programming: Python (proficient); familiarity with C++/CUDA a plus.
• Deep Learning Frameworks: PyTorch (primary), TensorFlow or JAX.
• NLP Libraries: Hugging Face Transformers, Datasets, PEFT, TRL, Accelerate.
• Training Infrastructure: Multi-GPU training, FSDP, DeepSpeed ZeRO stages 1–3.
• Data Engineering: Pandas, NumPy, Apache Spark or Dask for large-scale data prep.
• Vector DBs & Retrieval: FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, or equivalent.
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure — ML-specific services (SageMaker, Vertex AI, etc.).
• Version Control & CI/CD: Git, GitHub/GitLab, MLflow or W&B for experiment tracking.

4  Technical Skills — Nice to Have

• Experience with multimodal models or vision-language models (VLMs).
• Knowledge of model safety, alignment techniques, and responsible AI frameworks.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar orchestration frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source ML projects or publications at NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, ACL.

Behavioural Competencies

• Intellectual Curiosity: Keeps up with rapidly evolving AI research and applies learnings pragmatically.
• Problem Solving: Approaches ambiguous problems with structured, data-driven thinking.
• Ownership: Takes full accountability for model quality, timelines, and production reliability.
• Collaboration: Works effectively in cross-functional teams with diverse skill sets.
• Communication: Distils complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve with research breakthroughs.

Konrad Group

Konrad Group is a next generation digital consultancy. We are dedicated to solving complex business problems for our global clients with creative and forward-thinking solutions. Our employees enjoy a culture built on innovation and a commitment to creating best-in-class digital products in use by hundreds of millions of consumers around the world. We hire exceptionally smart, analytical, and hard working people who are lifelong learners.

QA Team Lead

As a Quality Assurance Team Lead, you have a successful career in Quality Assurance and have experience leading teams in a cross-functional environment. In your career you have successfully developed and executed test strategies for large and complex digital projects and programs. As the Quality Assurance Team Lead you will report directly into VP and C-level executives.

You are responsible for establishing and maintaining quality standards and procedures. You are expected to be well versed in manual and automated testing methodologies and processes and have a strong point-of-view with respect to the use of tools and technologies to ensure a high degree of quality control. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience leading and mentoring teams of QA Engineers.

Our engineering teams work in smaller groups based on project size, collaborating closely with project management and our quality engineering specialists. We strive to create a work environment that encourages innovation, teamwork, career advancement and personal fulfillment.

Responsibilities 

• Evaluate quality assurance tools, technologies and frameworks in collaboration with the technology leadership team
• Define and maintain quality assurance policies, processes and procedures
• Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of QA Engineers
• Create test strategies for large and complex digital projects
• Document issues in bug tracking software 
• Assist the technology team and senior technology leadership management with other project-related tasks
• Assist the strategy team with business development activities such as contributing to in-depth discussions about our QA process with clients or prospective clients

Successful candidates will have

• One of the following degrees (or similar) B.Tech Computer Application, B.Tech Computer Science, BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering
• Minimum 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years defining and executing on test strategies for large-scale digital projects
• A deep understanding of manual and automated testing processes and tools
• Experience creating test strategies that encompass frontend, backend, end-to-end, performance, load and accessibility testing
• Excellent mentor and leadership skills 
• Experience with project collaboration, bug tracking and test case tools
• Working knowledge of Windows, OS X, iOS and Android operating systems
• Comfortable using various tablets and mobile devices
• Superior organizational, written, and verbal communication skills with strong presentation ability
• Technical degree/background/experience is an asset
• Excellent communication skills in English

Perks and Benefits

• Socials, Outings & Retreats
• One day per week Work From Home flexibility
• Subsidized Lunch
• Culture of Learning & Development

Konrad Group is committed to maintaining a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status will receive consideration for employment. If you have any accessibility requirements or concerns regarding the hiring process or employment with us, please notify us so we can provide suitable accommodation.

While we sincerely appreciate all applications, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Most companies try to meet expectations, dunnhumby exists to defy them. Using big data, deep expertise and AI-driven platforms to decode the 21st century human experience – then redefine it in meaningful and surprising ways that put customers first. Across digital, mobile and retail. For brands like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo.

We’re looking for a talented Privacy Risk & Assurance Analyst who expects more from their career. It’s a chance to work with our clients to implement our data platforms and software products. It’s an opportunity to work with a market-leading business to explore new opportunities for us and influence global retailers.

In this role, you support the data risk model by assuring, maintaining, and improving the quality of privacy and data‑risk information across our securiti* tooling and processes. You perform second‑line assurance, manage issues and risks through their lifecycle, and resolve privacy‑relevant DSPM issues to strengthen controls, reduce exposure, and improve our compliance posture. Your focus is assurance, risk management, data quality, and precision in applying privacy requirements.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in privacy, data protection, risk, compliance, information security, or data governance.
• Practical exposure to structured reviews or checks of operational inputs, for example: Reviewing request forms, assessments, or registers for completeness and accuracy.
• Validating evidence against stated requirements or controls.
• Experience working with systems or tools that hold risk, privacy, or compliance data, with an understanding that:
• Ability to follow defined assurance steps or test scripts, document findings clearly, and escalate issues where evidence is missing or weak.
• Some exposure to issue or action tracking, such as logging findings, updating status, or following up with owners under guidance.
• Strong attention to detail and a demonstrable habit of checking, questioning, and correcting inaccuracies.
• Clear written communication skills, suitable for maintaining logs, notes, and audit‑ready records.
• Willingness and ability to learn complex tooling and processes, and to apply feedback consistently

 Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct assurance reviews of privacy and security requests (CRAs, VRAs, controller requests), validating routing, inputs, controls, and risk mitigation.
• Identify control gaps and failing controls, support remediation, and maintain assurance evidence and documentation.
• Support end‑to‑end request flows, data hygiene, and accurate ROPA and backend records within the Securiti platform, including legacy remediation.
• Track and manage issues arising from assurance, RACM testing, incidents, DSPM findings, and horizon scanning through to closure.
• Identify recurring risk themes and contribute to playbooks, control updates, and process improvements.
• Review DSPM outputs to validate sensitive data locations, classifications, and data flows, ensuring alignment with ROPA and Securiti records.
• Support remediation of privacy‑relevant data exposure risks in collaboration with product, data, and information security teams.

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

A Leading WPP Media Brand, EssenceMediacom is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

Role Summary & Impact

We are looking for an experienced Associate Media Planning Director to lead integrated media strategy and planning across multiple brands within a high-profile client portfolio. This role requires a strong blend of strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and client leadership.

The ideal candidate will bring a holistic understanding of the marketing funnel—spanning brand building to performance—and will be responsible for developing connected media strategies that drive both long-term brand equity and short-term business outcomes. A key aspect of the role will be managing senior stakeholder relationships, including direct liaison with client teams, and ensuring seamless coordination across internal teams and partner agencies.

Strategic Media Leadership

• Lead the development of full-funnel media strategies across awareness, consideration, and conversion objectives.
• Translate business goals into integrated media plans across digital and offline channels where relevant.
• Ensure alignment of media strategies with broader marketing, product, and business priorities.

Cross-Brand Coordination & Client Servicing

• Act as a primary point of contact for client stakeholders, ensuring strong day-to-day relationship management.
• Drive cross-brand coordination, ensuring consistency in strategic thinking, learning agendas, and execution frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with client teams (including global/regional counterparts where applicable) to align priorities, narratives, and outputs.
• Lead regular communication, including presentations, QBRs, and strategic reviews

Integrated Planning & Channel Expertise

• Oversee planning across key channels including video, display, programmatic, and app ecosystems.
• Guide teams in leveraging audience insights, first-party data, and platform capabilities to inform planning decisions.

Measurement, Insights & Innovation

• Drive a test-and-learn culture, identifying opportunities for experimentation and innovation
• Leverage advanced analytics and tools (e.g., clean rooms, attribution models) to generate actionable insights.
• Translate data into clear narratives and recommendations for stakeholders.

Team Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Lead and mentor planners, fostering capability building and career development
• Ensure high standards of output across planning, reporting, and deliverables
• Oversee planning accuracy, forecasting, and overall quality control
• Collaborate with activation and specialist teams to ensure seamless execution
  
  Skills & Experience

• 7–10 years of experience in media planning, digital strategy, or integrated marketing.
• Proven experience managing client relationships and working across multiple brands or business units.
• Strong understanding of full-funnel media strategy, including both brand and performance marketing.
• Experience across key digital channels including video, programmatic, social, search and app ecosystems
• Familiarity with data, measurement frameworks, and attribution methodologies
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear strategic direction
• Demonstrated team leadership and stakeholder management experience
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders

 Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.  

WPP Media 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.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer (C/C++) who expects more from their career. It’s a chance to extend and improve dunnhumby’s  team. We’re a Backend Developers  team working with a wide variety of tools and technologies. We handle the whole lifecycle of our teams’ solutions, from inception and development to their deployment and maintenance via Infrastructure as Code. Joining our engineering team, you’ll work with passionate people to build, extend, and maintain the platform that underpins all our client engagements.

Required Skills:

• 6-10 years of experience in software development.
• 6+ years of experience in C/C++, Python and Shell Scripting.
• Fluency in working with databases.
• Have sound understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and development principles.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum or Kanban development environment.
• Solid understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices
• HLD, LLD, Design Principles , Distributed Computing and Functional programming

Good to Have Skills:

• Experience working with version control software (preferably Git).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of working with Dockers and Containers.
• Experience of working with Kubernetes.
• Experience of working with Airflow.
• Experience of working on Cloud environments (GCP and Azure)

Tesco Media & Insight Platform is a partnership between Tesco, the UK’s largest grocery retailer, and dunnhumby. Fueled by first‑party behavioral data from over 23 million Clubcard holders, we help brands understand consumer behaviors and reach the right customers, at the right time, with the right message across the full marketing funnel. Our closed‑loop measurement connects what customers see with what they buy, helping brands Shape What Britain Buys and maximize the impact of every pound of media investment.

Roles and Responsibilities 

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be a hands‑on technical contributor designing, building and operating production‑grade GenAI and agentic AI solutions that power Tesco Media & Insight Platform’s global products and services. You will work closely with the AI Engineering Manager, Product, Data Science and Engineering teams to turn business problems into secure, scalable, observable AI systems that deliver measurable value for brands and shoppers.

• Design and implement GenAI and agentic AI solutions on GCP, leveraging Vertex AI (models, endpoints, pipelines, vector search/RAG, Agent Builder) and core GCP services.
• Build AI agents and multi‑step agentic workflows, including tool calling, orchestration, and integrations with internal and external systems.
• Contribute to the design of MCP servers and agent‑to‑agent / agent‑to‑application protocols to enable safe, reliable automation of retail media and insight use cases.
• Work with the AI Engineering Manager and architects to define solution designs, interface contracts and non‑functional requirements (security, reliability, performance, cost).
• Implement security, privacy and governance controls in AI solutions, including safe prompt and tool design, data protection, secrets management and access control.
• Apply DevOps/MLOps practices: contribute to CI/CD pipelines for models, prompts and agents; use infrastructure as code; support environment management and automated testing.
• Implement observability for AI systems: instrument prompts, model calls, tools and agents with tracing, metrics and logs; build and maintain dashboards and alerts.
• Help define and run AI testing and evaluation strategies, including automated tests, offline and online evaluation, red‑teaming, regression suites and human‑in‑the‑loop review flows.
• Collaborate with Retail Media and Insight teams to understand use cases and data, and translate requirements into concrete AI components and services.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested code in Python (and, where relevant, TypeScript/Java or similar) following team standards for readability, performance and reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews and incident post‑mortems, and contribute to continuous improvement of our AI engineering practices.
• Stay current on advances in LLMs, agentic frameworks and cloud AI services, and bring forward ideas for how they can be applied to Tesco Media & Insight Platform.

What you’ll need to succeed in the role

• Strong experience in software/data/ML engineering, with hands‑on delivery of AI/ML or LLM‑based solutions into production (not just prototypes).
• Practical experience on GCP and Vertex AI, including deploying models, building pipelines, and implementing RAG/vector search‑based solutions.
• Solid understanding of LLMs and foundation models: transformers at a high level, tokenization, embeddings, context windows, RAG, and the trade‑offs between fine‑tuning, adapters and prompt‑based approaches.
• Hands‑on experience building agentic workflows or AI agents (e.g. tool‑augmented chat, multi‑step workflows, or multi‑agent systems) using one or more modern frameworks or platforms.
• Good grasp of security and safety for AI systems, including prompt and tool design to reduce hallucinations and prompt injection, safe handling of sensitive data, and application‑level guardrails.
• Experience with DevOps/MLOps practices: CI/CD, version control, automated testing, infrastructure as code, monitoring and incident handling in a cloud environment.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience building and consuming APIs; familiarity with microservices and event‑driven architectures is a plus.
• Ability to design and run evaluation and experimentation for AI features, including quantitative and qualitative measures and, where appropriate, human‑in‑the‑loop review.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and a willingness to take ownership of complex technical challenges.
• Clear, proactive communication and the ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, data scientists, engineers and commercial stakeholders across locations.

Retail Media is transforming how advertisers connect with consumers through personalized and targeted campaigns across retailers' digital and physical touchpoints.
Retail Media Measurement plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effectiveness of these campaigns, driving value for advertisers, retailers, and consumers alike

Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

Dunnhumby helps retailers and brands deliver better experiences through Customer First strategies.

We are seeking a talented Lead Engineer with .NET expertise to lead development of a product that help Retailers transform their Retail Media business in a way that helps them achieve maximum ad revenue and enable massive scale.

As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering high-quality software solutions.

You will be responsible for contributing to system architecture and ensuring adherence to engineering best practices. Your technical expertise, leadership skills, and ability to drive results will be key to the success of our products.

What will you be doing?

You will design and deliver .NET Core solutions within microservices architecture, ensuring adherence to compliance, security, and quality standards. Implement best practices in coding, CI/CD, and DevOps while balancing delivery timelines with technical excellence. Conduct regular performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and drive innovation through continuous improvement and process enhancements. Focus on improving developer productivity and coaching junior team members to achieve their full potential. You will collaborate with product managers and architects to define technical roadmaps.

What would you need to be successful in the role?

• Experience 9+years
• Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering complex projects.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
• Possess strong technical expertise in C#, .NET Core and experience building RESTful APIs with a deep understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, system design, and engineering best practices.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems using microservices and event-driven architecture
• Familiar with microservices and event-driven architecture using tools like RabbitMQ , Google Pub/Sub and Kafka, as well as containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with:
  
  • Docker and Kubernetes (K8s)
  • Cloud platforms (GCP / Azure / AWS)
  • Relational databases (Postgres preferred) and analytical databases (BigQuery preferred)
  • Testing Framework (Xunit / NUnit/ Cypress)
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• Experienced in using DevOps tools like GitLab CI/CD and leveraging cloud platforms, particularly GCP or Azure, for scalable solutions.
• Additional knowledge of Redis, and Elasticsearch is an advantage
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and Unix/Linux environments, alongside expertise in testing strategies, code quality, and secure coding tools like SonarQube and Checkmarx.
• Proficiency with version control systems like Git
• Adept at utilizing observability tools like New Relic to monitor systems, with solid knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and strong interpersonal and leadership skills to effectively motivate teams.
• Familiarity with the AdTech or Retail domain is an added advantage
• Work experience preferably in a product company

About the opportunity

Senior Account Receivable & Collections Analyst who plays a pivotal, strategic lead role in the financial operations of the company by managing and optimizing the accounts receivable process with a high-energy, "front-desk" approach. This role manages a continuous flow of customer queries, DIY billing emails, and complex collection challenges on a global portfolio while acting as a functional lead on AR systems (such as NetSuite, SAP, or Salesforce) to drive process enhancements and data integrity. To provide sharp, timely internal reports and analysis on debtor balances, cash collections, and bad debts while maintaining professional and energetic contact with customers.

A day in the life

• Arrive with a live view of global portfolio aging to identify exactly where pressure points are before the first call of the day.
• Contact customers (agencies, Enterprise, and brand clients) by telephone and email to move collections forward on high-risk accounts.
• Maintain positive relationships with our customers by providing excellent, responsive service.
• Maintain meticulous notes on follow-up and contact within ERP and CRM systems so nothing falls through overnight.
• Handle a non-stop flow of cases, DIY billing queries, and financial requests via a shared inbox and Salesforce with high operational resilience.
• Send monthly statements to customers and resolve discrepancies immediately upon receipt.
• Reduce DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), improve CEI (Collection Effectiveness Index), and minimize bad debt expense of the assigned global portfolio.
• Identify systemic billing or operational issues impacting cash flow and proactively lead cross-functional resolution efforts.
• Act as a key contributor in cash forecasting by providing accurate short- and long-term collection projections based on portfolio trends.
• Communicate real-time account status, risks, and next actions proactively to Sales and Account Managers.
• Oversee daily cash applications in ERP systems and lead investigations into complex unallocated/unapplied cash receipts.
• Issue reminder and legal notices to customers based on the Credit Control policy.
• Collaborate with Internal Sales, AMs, Finance, Legal, and billing teams with an "on-your-toes" urgency to resolve discrepancies and unblock revenue.
• Monitor and report on potential bad debts and portfolio health with a sharp, numerical eye.
• Strengthen internal controls and compliance around AR processes, ensuring audit readiness and policy adherence.
• Determine when accounts should be sent to outside collection agencies when all internal strategic efforts have been exhausted.
• Generate sophisticated monthly and ad-hoc reporting metrics on the performance of the portfolio.
• Lead the setting of credit limits for new and existing customers.
• Manage credit card workflows end-to-end, including charges, refunds, and formally challenging invalid chargebacks with supporting evidence.
• Actively leverage Enterprise AI platforms (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to drive process optimization, build automations, and streamline collection workflows.

What you’ll bring

• Minimum 10–12 years’ experience in an Accounts Receivable / Collections role.
• Ability to adjust priorities instantly under pressure to meet non-stop deadlines.
• High stamina and flexibility within a constantly changing, high-volume environment.
• Elite interpersonal and diplomatic negotiation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills suitable for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to cooperate and lead collaboration effectively with team members.
• Proven track record of reducing DSO and improving cash collections.
• Sharp, proactive attitude – the ability to take immediate initiative to get things done.
• Expert Microsoft Excel (Power Query/Pivot) and IT skills with an exceptional eye for numbers.
• Highly motivated with a continuous eye for process improvement and automation.
• Deep expertise in managing global portfolios across multiple currencies and international markets.
• Deep expertise in Tier-1 ERP and CRM ecosystems (e.g., SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce) with the ability to drive system-related projects.
• AI-savvy and curious about technology; comfort using Enterprise AI tools to automate repetitive tasks.
• Experience of working with advertising/marketing agencies is highly preferred