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Wunderman Thompson

Integrated creative, data-driven marketing agency

Full Stack Developer - Data Services team

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Senior
Luxembourg
HybridHybrid approach with teams in the office an average of four days a week.
Software EngineeringFull-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience building production web applications as a full stack developer or software engineer.
  • Strong Java backend development experience, including API design and service architecture.
  • Strong Python development experience for automation, integrations, and data-heavy services.
  • Experience with scraping frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or Scrapy, and building compliant, resilient collectors.
  • Working knowledge of modern front-end development, including React, Vue, or Angular; TypeScript or JavaScript; and component-based user interfaces.
  • Experience building and operating cloud applications on AWS and/or GCP, including compute, storage, IAM, and networking fundamentals.
  • Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor while maintaining engineering standards for reviews, testing, and debugging.
  • Experience integrating with LLM/AI APIs and building safe product experiences, including guardrails, prompt/versioning discipline, evaluation, and fallbacks.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including testing strategy, clean architecture, Git workflows, documentation, and observability.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in a cross-functional team.
Responsibilities
  • Build and evolve web applications by adding features to existing tools and developing new internal and client-facing tools from scratch, including user interfaces, backend services, and integrations.
  • Develop robust backend services and APIs that connect to data warehouses or lakes, third-party APIs, and internal datasets to support decision workflows and reporting.
  • Build automation for reporting workflows, including scheduling, configuration-driven pipelines, exports, alerts, and notifications.
  • Implement systems that match and enrich content across catalogs and channels using rules and, where appropriate, machine learning or AI for deduplication, similarity matching, and classification.
  • Design web scraping and collection tools, where permitted, with rate limits, retries, and monitoring, in line with legal/compliance requirements and platform terms.
  • Build AI chat tools connected to internal knowledge and systems using MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tool/function calling.
  • Implement AI features in existing dashboards and tools, including explanations, insight summaries, anomaly narratives, and guided exploration, with human-in-the-loop and quality safeguards.
  • Develop and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS and/or GCP, including CI/CD, containers, secrets management, and logging/monitoring.
  • Write tests, perform code reviews, apply secure coding practices, and ensure production performance and maintainability.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with MCP servers and tool-based AI agent architectures.
  • Experience embedding AI capabilities into analytics experiences such as dashboards, guided insights, and conversational exploration.
  • Experience with agentic automation/orchestration tools such as n8n and/or LangGraph, or similar tools.
  • Experience integrating with data platforms, including warehouse/lakehouse querying, semantic layers, and role-based access.
  • Experience with DevOps/tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, monitoring tools such as CloudWatch or Stackdriver, and structured logging.
  • Experience with authentication/authorization patterns such as OAuth/OIDC and SSO, multi-tenant applications, and security reviews.

About the company

Wunderman Thompson blends creative advertising, data-driven consultancy, and technology to drive growth for brands. It delivers creative campaigns and brand strategies, uses data and insights to help businesses transform, and offers technology solutions such as WaterLight, a product that converts salt water into electrical power. The company earns revenue through project-based fees, retainers, and performance-based incentives. It differentiates itself with an integrated approach that combines creativity, data, and technology, backed by global clients and award-winning work. Its goal is to help ambitious brands grow by delivering measurable, impactful results.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

M&A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1958

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • VML won Kohl's digital transformation work, signaling sticky enterprise demand in 2025.
  • Healthcare and B2B remain strong; VML cites these as core growth categories.
  • VML kept winning awards in 2026, including Gold at the ANDY Awards.

What critics are saying

  • WPP cut hundreds of jobs in 2026, with VML employees notified directly.
  • The FTC and eight states sued WPP in April 2026 over ad-buying practices.
  • VML's brand is gone; integration into VML creates execution risk and identity drift.

What makes Wunderman Thompson unique

  • Wunderman Thompson lives on inside VML, uniting commerce, data, and creative scale.
  • VML combines 30,000 people across 64 markets, giving global delivery depth.
  • WPP Open gives VML proprietary AI tooling with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Vacation

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