Senior Associate, Core Technology

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

GALE is the worlds first and only Business Agency. We bring business strategy to brand storytelling to drive enterprise value. With expertise in strategy media CRM creative performance marketing and technology GALE creates integrated marketing systems and campaigns that grow businesses in significant ways. Founded in 2014 the agency has since been named AdAges Business Transformation Agency of the Year and Adweeks U.S. Media Agency of the Year and has been recognized for its innovative creative at the Cannes Lions.

We work with brands such as Delta Uber Starbucks Chilis Hard Rock MilkPEP Diageo Cotton IHG and more. 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!

GALE has eight offices around the world including New York Toronto Los Angeles Austin Denver Kansas City London and Bengaluru. GALE embraces a hybrid flexible workplace

About the role --

As a Senior Associate 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

47 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 workflowsTools/frameworks such as LangChain Pydantic and related ecosystems

Familiarity with AI agent design patterns and best practices

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 GALEs 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 GALEs 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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC