Senior Associate, Core Technology (Python, Django)

GALE is a Business Agency that brings its insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, brand communications, performance marketing and technology, GALE creates integrated marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. Founded in 2014, the agency has since been named Ad Age Data and Analytics Agency of the Year and Adweek’s Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year.

We work with Hard Rock, MilkPEP, H&R Block, Dropbox, Hertz and more. If you’re driven by a passion to build something great, a desire to innovate, and a commitment to achieve excellence in your craft, GALE is a great place for you!

GALE has nine offices around the world, including New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Kansas City, London, Bengaluru and Singapore. GALE embraces a hybrid, flexible workplace with employees asked to attend the office three days per week. 

As a global agency, we are currently hiring across multiple locations within North America, please apply today to learn more. You can check our office locations here.

GALE is a creative media consultancy that brings business insights to brand storytelling and activates it across every channel. With expertise in business strategy, media, CRM, addressable and integrated brand communications, performance marketing, and technology, GALE creates marketing systems and communications that grow businesses. GALE delivers strong outcomes for its partners in automotive, QSR, retail, gaming, entertainment, telecom and more. The agency currently has offices in New York, Detroit, Singapore, Toronto, Austin, Los Angeles, London, and Bengaluru. 

our teams are connected by a set of core values that inform everything we do, from how we hire to how we work together: values like Everyone Matters, No Silos, and Masters of Our Craft.

If you’re driven by a passion to build something great, a desire to innovate, and a commitment to achieve excellence in your craft, GALE is a great place for you.

About the role -- As a Senior Associate, Core Technology, you are constantly leveraging your technical skills and creativity. You have experience in building reliable, lightweight, malleable, and high-performing web applications. Your expertise lies in back-end development in Python, but you are conversant with front-end libraries like React, Angular, etc. You’re currently leveraging industry-standard development tools like GitHub and JIRA. 

In general, you’re comfortable working in an agile environment, using test-driven development, automated testing suites and continuous integration. You’re technologically agnostic, genuinely enjoy experimenting with new frameworks, and closely follow changes across the tech landscape.

WHAT YOU “MIGHT” DO (No day is the same)

· Create technical designs that support our platform

· Build high-quality cloud-based Python Django software products.

· Be responsible for expanding the feature set of the platform in an extensible and scalable manner

· Design and develop Data pipelines using cloud and open source technology stacks (As an example, currently, we use AWS offerings like EMR, Glue, Redshift along with Airflow, Nifi, and Spark among others)

· Write code that passes unit tests and withstands an agile and test-driven development (TDD) environment

WHO YOU ARE

· 4- 7 years of Strong Expertise in Python and Django

· Fluent in Python and have worked on backend frameworks (Django, Flask, Pyramid, etc.)

· Experience in Cloud / Storage like Amazon (AWS) - EC2/EBS/S3

· Dabbled in front-end frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, etc.)

· Working knowledge of writing queries on relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redshift, etc.)

· Nice to have -- comfortable using a serverless architecture for data pipelines (Athena, Glue, Lambda). 

HIRING PROCESS

We want you to be just as discerning in making your next career move as we are finding great talent to join our team. Our interview process generally consists of the following stages to allow you to meet a range of people from various disciplines and domains. You will be assessed at each stage before being invited to move to the next.

· Phone screen with a member of our Talent Acquisition Team

· Up to two domain discussions with technology team members 

· A discussion with a member outside of the technology domain

· A conversation with the Hiring Manager, who will generally be your manager

· An optional final closing Q&A with a member of our Leadership Team

Note: Hybrid work in office is an essential function of the job.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We believe in inclusivity and do our best work when people with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and skills are brought together. Our Core Values are at the root of GALE’s collaborative environment and help to foster a strong community. Our Code of Conduct, Human Resources policies, and executive investment in inclusion further support and protect GALE’s inclusive workplace. GALE is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. 

Our Hiring Process

We want you to be just as discerning in making your next career move as we are finding great talent to join our team. Our interview process will allow you to meet a range of people from various disciplines and domains both virtually and in person. Please discuss with our recruiters if you require any accommodations throughout the process to help enable a smooth interview.