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About the Role

As a Python Engineer, you’ll build and optimize scalable, secure, and high-performance server-side applications that power digital transformation and marketing services. You’ll join a supportive community of developers who value curiosity, collaboration, and positivity. By writing clean code and troubleshooting complex issues, you’ll deliver robust solutions that meet client needs. Your passion for agile principles, combined with a commitment to continuous learning, will ensure successful deployments and drive innovation across diverse industries.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain server-side components, APIs, and back-end systems.
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code to implement technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and integrate back-end services.
• Troubleshoot technical challenges and optimize system performance.
• Mentor junior developers and assist in architectural decision-making.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards and industry best practices.

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years’ experience in back-end development with modern languages and frameworks.
• Strong debugging and optimization skills, ensuring reliable system performance.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration in agile settings.
• Experience mentoring or guiding junior developers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable field, or equivalent expertise.
• Proficient in Python web development.
• Ability to build, deploy, and maintain interactive web applications
• Strong data manipulation and visualization capabilities
• Demonstrated interest in using emerging LLM technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to understand business context and commercial requirements
• Experience translating business needs into technical solutions
• Intuitive grasp of data relationships and their business implications
• Track record of making technically sound decisions that drive business value.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Previous work in business-facing development roles
• Experience with data analytics or business intelligence applications
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, AI integrations, or AI-assisted development tools.

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At .Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$130,000—$140,000 USD

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.