Team Lead, Core Technology

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 youre 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 Team Lead Core Technology youll leverage your technical depth and problem-solving skills to build reliable lightweight high-performing web applications and platform services. While your strength is back-end development (Python/Django and related frameworks) youre comfortable collaborating across the stack and are conversant with modern front-end ecosystems (React/Angular/Vue).

You thrive in an agile sprint-driven environment and bring a strong engineering mindset: clean architecture test-driven development automated testing CI/CD and scalable system design. Youre also excited by the evolution of AI engineering - especially RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) LLM integrations and agentic workflows. You can take a problem from ambiguity to deliverydesign build test deploy iterate.

WHAT YOU MIGHT DO (No day is the same)

• Design: Create technical designs (HLD/LLD) for new capabilities and improvements ensuring solutions are scalable secure and maintainable.

• Backend engineering (Python): Build and enhance backend services and APIs primarily in Python/Django (and related frameworks as needed) focusing on performance reliability and clean architecture.

• Database & data layer: Work with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL/Redshift) and support data modeling query optimization and production readiness.

• AI/RAG & Agent work: Design and implement custom RAG workflows and LLM integrationscovering retrieval prompt orchestration grounding and connecting to vector stores (e.g. Pinecone/FAISS) where applicable.

• Data pipelines: Contribute to building/operating data pipelines and jobs using AWS and open-source tools (e.g. EMR/Glue/Redshift Airflow/Spark)including orchestration monitoring and reliability improvements.

• Engineering excellence: Write code that holds up in TDD build automated tests participate in reviews and support CI/CD practices using tools like GitHub and JIRA.

• Sprint ownership & leadership: Independently run sprints for a small teamplanning task breakdown execution tracking and clear communication with internal stakeholders and clients.

WHO YOU ARE

• 6 years of strong experience in Python with deep expertise in Django and other frameworks.

• Strong backend foundation and familiarity with frameworks such as Django / Flask / Pyramid (or equivalents).

• Solid experience working with AWS (or similar cloud platforms) in production environments.

• Strong understanding of:

  • HLD/LLD system design fundamentals API design and scalable architectures

  • Engineering best practices: testing code quality documentation and maintainability

• Hands-on experience building AI/LLM solutions including:

  • RAG pipelines and agent workflows

  • Tools/frameworks such as LangChain Pydantic and related ecosystems

  • Familiarity with AI agent design patterns and best practices