# Principal Engineer

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 11 years of professional software development in TypeScript and Node.js or Python, including 5 years of architecture across multiple systems. 3 years of experience owning engineering standards adopted beyond your own team, and mentoring senior engineers. Experience working in globally distributed teams across time zones, with engineering, product and business stakeholders in other regions. Backend language and craft. You are an expert in TypeScript with Node.js or in Python, and a practitioner in the other. You set our backend and frontend coding patterns, framework choices and upgrade path, and you are a practitioner in at least two other crafts. React and frontend. You set our full-stack conventions across teams: where logic lives, how APIs serve user interfaces, and how shared components are built and maintained. APIs and data formats. You design REST APIs with OpenAPI from first principles: resource modelling, HTTP semantics, pagination, consistent error formats, versioning, idempotency and rate limiting. You know when to use JSON and when to use Protocol Buffers, and how to evolve both without breaki

- **Id**: 4028514
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/wpp-principal-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Gurgaon, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T17:35:30Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:35:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9631
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Creative Agencies, Digital Marketing, Media & Audience Measurement

## Company

- **Id**: 5467
- **Name**: WPP
- **Domain**: wpp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/wpp>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 34
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 58
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS CDK** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **BullMQ** — Optional: no
- **Celery** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Jest** — Optional: no
- **Keycloak** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Okta** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **OWASP Top 10** — Optional: no
- **Pact** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prisma** — Optional: no
- **Pytest** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **SQLAlchemy** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Testcontainers** — Optional: no
- **Trunk-Based Development** — Optional: no
- **TypeORM** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vitest** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Google ADK** — Optional: yes
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- … 5 more in the JSON form

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:35:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 58
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T18:56:54Z

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