Technical Solutions Engineer

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The Company

Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing, advertising and technology services company connecting the dots across content, data & digital media and technology services. Inspired by the connectivity and flexibility of technology APIs, Media.Monks’ single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 6,000-strong team of digital talent organised across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries…

The Role’s Responsibilities

We’re hiring for a Technical Solutions Engineer, but what actually is that? The role is split into three categories: internal software development, client facing engineering services, and providing support to our Account Management and fulfilment teams.

This role is for engineers that love using technology to solve diverse problems and take on the role of developer, tech consultant, and platform specialist.  Excellent communication skills are a must along with the perseverance to solve problems that may not have obvious solutions. You may need to “Think out of the box” or “hack around” a problem to solve it. We like that!

You Will

• Build innovative tools on top of advertising and analytics platforms to enhance the capabilities of our account management and specialist teams 
• Provide engineering services along the lines of data integration, platform migration, automating workflows and process, tag audits and deployments, visualization, and cloud architecture consulting. 
• Provide technical guidance on complicated platform and implementation issues
• Write technical documentation and provide training on the tools we build to other engineers and account managers across the globe

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or equivalent with 1-2+ years of experience in web-based technology

• Mid level front-end web development experience (javascript, css, html) 
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
• Expert knowledge of DOM and browser based network debugging
• Working knowledge of tag management tools
• Working knowledge of Cloud Platforms (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Hybrid mobile app or native iOS/Android development experience/familiarity 
• Able to speak confidently about solutions to peers and other engineers
• Ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Ability to prioritize a number of projects and collaborate across technical teams of different discipline

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of display advertising principles (CPA, CTRs, CPMs, Impressions, etc.)
• Automation Frameworks like headless Chrome (or phantomJS)
• Data Engineering, ETL
• React JS development experience
• Experience with Multivariate testing or A/B Testing
• Mobile event tracking via Firebase and Appsflyer
• Google Analytics IQ Certification (highly desirable)
• Adobe Analytics Certification (highly desirable)
• Google Cloud Platform Data Architect Certification (highly desirable)
• Knowledge and experience with test driven methodologies

Technology Used

• Javascript, CSS, HTML, Node.js, Python, SQL, React, React Native, Terraform
• GitHub/CircleCi
• Postman, Charles Proxy
• Google Cloud Platform (Serverless applications, BigQuery, DataPrep, GCS, Auto ML etc) 
• Google Marketing Platform Services (GA, CM, DV360)

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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.