Brainlabs is a digital media agency – we’re passionate about using data and tech to craft marketing strategies that drive real business results for clients. Our 1000+ Brainlabbers partner with some of the world’s largest advertisers to do just that.
Our mission is simple, we want to become the world’s largest independent media agency, famous for delivering high performance and accelerating the careers of Brainlabbers whilst we’re at it.
Brainlabs has always been a culture-first company. In fact, from the very beginnings of the agency a set of shared principles, philosophies and values was documented in The Brainlabs Handbook, helping us create our unique culture.
As with everything here we always seek to adapt and improve so The Brainlabs Handbook has been fine-tuned to become The Brainlabs Culture Code.
This Culture Code consists of 12 codes that talk to what it means to be a Brainlabber. It’s a joint commitment to continuous development and creating a company that we can all be proud of, where Brainlabbers can turn up to do great work, make great friends and win together.
You can read The Brainlabs Culture Code in full here.
Role type: Permanent
Team: Tech
Estimated Start: September
Location: Buenos Aires
So, what’s the role?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Python Software Engineer with an advanced technical skill set who demonstrates technical authority and is passionate about software development. You should have a degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience.
You will demonstrate technical authority and make decisions and recommendations that have an important impact on extensive engineering activities. You will have the ability to demonstrate creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgement in anticipating and solving problems and independently solve problems that arise. You will be capable of planning and Must be capable of designing large systems with high quality technical documentation.
You will quickly gain a thorough understanding of the business, how other departments within the business operate, how this links with engineering services from a commercial perspective.
You will have strong problem solving skills and use these in order to collaborate with your team to research and devise new approaches and evaluate different techniques and recommendations.
You will prepare progress reports to present to management through the duration of the project, report any concerns and obtain approval for necessary changes. You will possess excellent communication skills at all levels of the business.
You will have a commercial outlook and be able to communicate with all levels of seniority within Brainlabs. You will take ownership of projects and will be proactive in your own learning, both inside and outside of assisted training. You will be self motivated with a passion for learning new technologies and embracing rapid change.You will have a commercial outlook with the ability to see wider implications within the Company. You will have an in-depth understanding of the industry and emerging products to validate decisions.
You will work in an engineering scrum team, with strong problem solving skills to be able to define the problem, research and discuss solutions, select an optimal solution, test the solution, complete the work to end user satisfaction and review the results.
The right candidate will take ownership of their role and be accountable to the internal project teams they work in.
All sounds great right? So here’s what we are looking for:
Project Management:
- Successfully delivered complex software development projects, ensuring significant scope and complexity were managed effectively.
- Proven track record of on-time and on-budget project completion.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, including allocating tasks to mixed-ability Scrum teams.
Technical Skills:
- In-depth knowledge of Python 2.7 and 3.X, Postgresql, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS , and full-stack development. Experience with jQuery and VueJS is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrable experience working with one or more social networking APIs such as Facebook, Google, Tiktok or Snapchat.
- Work with our VP of Social and Creative Tech to develop and enhance our proprietary ad management and creative management platform.
- Must be comfortable in a self-driven, agile startup environment and contribute to product direction. This includes translating business requirements into engineering specs and driving them to completion.
- Support internal teams as users of our platforms and in their execution of ad campaigns and creative workflow.
- Build rapport with Facebook, Google, Tiktok and Snapchat technical support representatives.
- Demonstrate and share expertise in media strategy and software development.
- Assist with machine learning capabilities around videos, images, ad copy, audiences and other ad elements to help determine early a/b test winners, identify fatigue and make recommendations to scale or pause elements.
- Monitor system performance and respond to devops issues. Small degree of on-call commitment required.
Version Control & Automation:
- Adept at using Git/Github for version control and collaboration
- Experience utilizing Github Actions for automation tasks
Desirable experience
- Background in digital marketing
Brainlabs is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace: we are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process, please let us know!
Please note that we will never ask you to transfer cash or make any other payment to us in order to apply for a role or to work for Brainlabs. Any such asks are fraudulent and should be reported to the appropriate authorities in your area.
