About the Role
TD SYNNEX's European Digital Marketing Agency is looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to help build reliable services, integrations and user-facing features for our AI-enabled internal tools and workflows. This role would be suited to a pragmatic engineer with a strong grounding in good software-engineering principles, who can independently deliver clearly defined features, while continuing to develop their expertise across AI, cloud and full-stack engineering. You will combine strong engineering discipline with an open, collaborative approach, communicating clearly and translating technical considerations for different audiences. You will work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across our European agency environment to turn ideas and business needs into secure, scalable and production-ready capabilities.
This is a 12-month fixed term contract, hybrid, based in Liverpool.
Responsibilities
•Design, build, test and maintain backend services and APIs, primarily using Java.
•Develop accessible, user-facing features using TypeScript and React.
•Use Python for analytics, internal tooling and automation.
•Integrate backend services with foundation-model APIs and third-party agentic platforms.
•Maintain clear, reliable and type-safe contracts between backend and frontend components.
•Apply appropriate testing, validation, error handling, observability and fallback behaviour.
•Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation and the continued development of engineering standards.
•Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to shape requirements and deliver production-ready solutions.
•Support continuous improvement by evaluating emerging technologies pragmatically and applying them where they add clear value.
Requirements
•A degree in a relevant STEM discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
•Strong programming fundamentals in Java or another statically typed language.
•Experience with JavaScript and modern web-development fundamentals.
•A sound understanding of relational databases, data modelling and SQL.
•Experience using Git, Docker, automated testing and common software-development workflows.
•Familiarity with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or comparable tools.
•Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
•The ability to take ownership of defined work, contribute to technical design and deliver to an agreed standard.
Nice to Have
•Experience with Spring Boot, TypeScript and React.
•Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, S3 and RDS, or comparable cloud services.
•Exposure to Snowflake, Redis or similar technologies.
•Experience working with foundation-model APIs, structured outputs, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation or agentic frameworks.
•Understanding of API design, CI/CD, application observability and production support.
•Awareness of the security, privacy, reliability and cost considerations associated with AI-enabled applications.
•Experience working in a digital, marketing, agency or other fast-paced delivery environment.
Benefits
•Hybrid working.
•Private healthcare, matched pension, enhanced parental & family leave.
•"Moments that matter" paid time off.
•Four Business Resource Groups supporting inclusion and belonging.
•Clear progression paths and benchmarked salaries.
•Elective benefits tailored to your country.
•Formal programs on leadership and professional development, plus on-demand courses.
•Financial, physical, and mental well-being support through seminars, events, and a global Life Empowerment Assistance Program.
•Onboarding program to network with new co-workers within your first 30 days.
•Internal, peer-led inclusive communities and activities, including local volunteering events and environmental/social initiatives.
