Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer

Build the services everything else relies on.

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About the Role

We build production systems for clients where the backend has to be correct, scalable, and observable. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you design and build the services, APIs, and data layers that the rest of the product depends on.

You'll work inside a Monks delivery team, alongside clients, product, and other engineers, owning the parts of the system that have to be right.

We're all-in on agentic engineering. Tools like Claude Code and Codex are part of our everyday workflow, and we're looking for people who are genuinely fluent working alongside AI coding agents and excited to push those practices further.

Who You Are

• Ownership-minded: you treat the services you build as yours to keep healthy.
• Rigorous: correctness, performance, and observability are habits, not afterthoughts.
• A pragmatic problem-solver: you build the simplest thing that scales.
• A clear communicator: you explain technical trade-offs plainly.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable services in Node / TypeScript.
• Design and implement REST (and where it fits, GraphQL) APIs.
• Model data and safeguard its integrity and performance in PostgreSQL.
• Review code, including AI-generated code, for quality and consistency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex backend issues.
• Contribute to the team's standards, tooling, and architecture.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in backend development with strong Node / TypeScript.
• Solid REST API design and implementation.
• Strong PostgreSQL and relational data modeling.
• Experience building on AWS (e.g. Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3).
• A good grasp of service architecture and distributed systems.
• Good testing habits.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, agile consulting environment.

Extra Credit

• You've integrated LLMs or built AI-backed services.
• Experience with event-driven systems and message queues.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Depth in another ecosystem (Python, Go) you can bring across.
• Open-source work you're proud to link.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category.

Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

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.