Backend Developer

We're on the lookout for a passionate self-starter interested in pursuing innovation & creativity within gaming marketing.

We’re a team creating an influencer management platform that allows marketing managers to build and measure sponsorship campaigns at scale. Advocate taps into the power of live video-game streaming and social media to deliver real-time control, proprietary insights, and cross-channel analytics at scale. 

Advocate is seeking a full-time back-end developer to join our existing team. The successful candidate will be reporting to a product leader to continue developing features towards our future releases.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of projects assigned to you from feasibility studies to development, optimization, and testing
• Improving product performance for recurring use at scale
• Creating tooling that implements third-party APIs (Twitch, Twitter, YouTube, etc) to produce backend services
• Configuring backend and middleware data layers for the Advocate platform.

Requirements

• Proficient ability in Python 3.6
• Experience building modern customer-facing web-apps
• Experience in small teams, startups, or early-stage web applications
• Heavy experience with Django and Django Rest Framework
• Experience working with asynchronous tasks in Celery

Relevant Experience

• Redis, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, GCP
• APIs for YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Discord
• Predictions with machine learning
• Working with large time series data