GALE
Brings business insights to brand storytelling
Manager Core Technology
About the job
- The candidate must have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 2–3 years in a tech lead or senior lead capacity.
- The candidate must have a proven track record leading full-stack squads in fast-paced, delivery-driven environments.
- The candidate must be able to balance hands-on engineering contributions with team leadership and mentorship.
- The candidate must be hands-on with Python and backend frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
- The candidate must have experience designing and building reliable, extensible RESTful APIs and microservices.
- The candidate must understand software engineering best practices, including test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, code reviews, and observability.
- The candidate must be familiar with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- The candidate must have hands-on proficiency with React.js and modern frontend ecosystems, including hooks, state management, and component libraries.
- The candidate must be comfortable reviewing frontend code, defining component architecture, and guiding user interface and user experience implementation.
- The candidate must understand frontend performance, accessibility, and cross-browser standards.
- The candidate must have working knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, S3, RDS, EC2, and API Gateway.
- The candidate must be familiar with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration basics such as Kubernetes or ECS.
- The candidate must have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and DevOps practices.
- The candidate must be able to drive execution in an Agile/Scrum development model.
- The candidate must have work breakdown, sprint planning, and estimation skills and be able to juggle multiple initiatives and shift priorities.
- The candidate must have experience setting a high bar for code quality, system design, and engineering discipline.
- The candidate must be able to navigate ambiguity and unblock delivery challenges across concurrent workstreams.
- The candidate must have exposure to AI application development, large language model integrations, or agent-based workflows.
- The candidate must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills and be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- The candidate must enjoy mentoring engineers and helping teams succeed together.
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable full-stack applications, APIs, and platform services.
- Own high-level and low-level system design decisions and define technical approaches that prioritize scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Establish and uphold architecture principles, coding standards, and engineering best practices across teams.
- Provide hands-on guidance across Python backend services and React frontend applications, including code reviews, debugging, and implementation.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of web products spanning React/Next.js frontends and Python backends using Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
- Own API design, integration patterns, and data contracts between frontend and backend layers.
- Collaborate with design, product, and quality assurance teams to deliver high-quality, performant, and accessible user experiences.
- Ensure frontend and backend teams work cohesively with a shared understanding of system boundaries and delivery goals.
- Contribute to the solutioning and delivery of AI-powered features and agent-based workflows integrated within full-stack products.
- Guide teams in adopting modern AI application patterns, including retrieval-augmented generation workflows, large language model integrations, and structured output pipelines.
- Work with technologies such as LangChain, Pydantic, vector stores, and modern large language model application frameworks where applicable.
- Lead, mentor, and coach engineers to help them grow in technical depth, ownership, and decision-making capability.
- Foster a culture of mentorship, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Support sprint planning, estimation, work breakdown, and execution across multiple delivery streams.
- Promote knowledge sharing, reusable patterns, and engineering consistency across squads.
- Create opportunities for growth, learning, and increased responsibility within the team.
- Execute in an Agile/Scrum environment with a focus on frequent, incremental delivery and continuous improvement.
- Plan and manage team deliverables and capacity across multiple concurrent projects, proactively managing risks and dependencies.
- Help teams navigate ambiguity and unblock delivery challenges with pragmatic implementation decisions.
- Translate business and client requirements into technical plans, roadmaps, and execution strategies.
- Partner with product managers, designers, analytics, and client stakeholders to shape solutions and align priorities.
- Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and progress to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Manage competing priorities across projects while maintaining focus on outcomes, quality, and team health.
- Collaborate with strategy, media, customer relationship management, analytics, creative, and technology teams.
- Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and cross-team collaboration to build reusable patterns and shared engineering accelerators.
- Build trust across engineering and cross-functional teams through clarity, responsiveness, and consistent follow-through.
- Create a team environment reflecting the values Everyone Matters, No Silos, and Masters of Our Craft.
- Experience collaborating with distributed or global teams is a plus.
- Experience with Next.js or similar server-side rendering/static site generation frameworks is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with tools such as LangChain, OpenAI APIs, or retrieval-augmented generation-based retrieval patterns is a plus.
About the company
GALE is a business agency that helps brands tell better stories while using data to guide decisions. It blends business insights with brand storytelling and activates campaigns across every channel. In practice, GALE analyzes markets and brand performance, identifies opportunities, creates clear messaging and storytelling built around business goals, and then runs or coordinates integrated campaigns across paid, owned, and earned media. What sets GALE apart is its combination of data and analytics with creative and strategic execution, plus recognition from industry awards for transformation and leadership in media, analytics, and cross-channel activation. The company’s goal is to help brands grow by turning data into meaningful stories and coordinated, measurable campaigns that reach customers wherever they are.”} } ));} // end tool call ீ? )
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Visit California picked GALE as global brand AOR on July 10, 2026.
- MilkPEP campaigns kept GALE visible in 2026, including social-to-commerce activations.
- GALE’s London expansion and Stagwell media network deepen international cross-sell.
What critics are saying
- Stagwell unified GALE under global media-commerce leadership on January 7, 2026.
- Andrew Noel and Sophia Zhang took over March 4, 2025, creating execution risk.
- If clients internalize AI media workflows, GALE becomes a thin execution layer by 2027.
What makes GALE unique
- GALE built a Business Agency model, blending CRM, media, creative, and consulting.
- Its 2026 London hub formalized EMEA delivery for Waymo, Diageo, and global clients.
- Stagwell’s Media Machine launch used GALE to fuse agentic AI with media buying.
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Stagwell marketing agency Gale has promoted Andrew Noel to Global CEO and Sophia Zhang to CEO North America.
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