Junior Python Developer (MLOps team)

Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Smadex is a leading advertising technology company founded in Barcelona in 2010 and sold to American-based and stock-listed Entravision in 2018 (NYSE::EVC). We are one of the top mobile ad-tech companies in the world and the largest Demand Side Platform (DSP) based in Europe, with our revenues over +$100M and consistently growing +40% YoY over the past years.

Our mission is to continue to improve our ad-tech platform to help our clients achieve their programmatic advertising campaign goals, and we want to give our employees a job they’ll love, where they will be challenged to improve results through real-life engineering and data analysis and where everyone’s implication has an impact.

Are you ready to be part of the new unicorn?

We are looking for an ambitious Junior Python Developer whose ultimate motivation is to learn the most advanced technologies used in the ad-tech industry by the likes of Google and Facebook and to help us become the biggest mobile programmatic advertising platform in the world.

What will you do:

• You will work closely with the MLOps team ensuring good practices and quality code.
• You will develop and improve Python scripts that are responsible for algorithmic decision-making, generating alarms, dashboards and reports.
• You will interact with other teams in the company to capture requirements and oversee the deployment of new features.
• You will develop new features, measure performance, and improve our pipelines. 
• You will play a key role in all architectural and development decisions relating to our algorithms.
• You will analyse data from different sources and provide actionable insights to business and engineering stakeholders.

What skills you need to have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science
• 1+ years of relevant experience in Python programming positions
• Very strong coding ability in Python, especially using object oriented and testing
• Knowledge of Bitbucket/Git version tools
• Experience working with SQL and data warehousing
• Experience in Linux environments
• Interest in machine learning topics
• Proficiency in solving problems
• Possesses excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Fluency in English

Extra points for :-)

• Familiarity with the cloud, ideally in AWS services such as EMR, EC2, Athena, S3, Redshift
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical significance tests)
• Experience with other programming languages as Java or Nodejs
• Experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as Jupyter Notebook, Superset, Zeppelin, Tableau, Periscope, PowerBI or others
• Experience in digital marketing platforms and user acquisition

Reward package:

• Integrate a highly motivated and young team.
• Great compensation package.
• Top location at the heart of Barcelona in a penthouse office with a rooftop terrace, barbeque, and a fully stocked fridge.
• Work from home: 2 days/week
• Private Health Insurance
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Meal vouchers - Tickets Restaurant monthly allowance.
• Monthly gym allowance: Choose between DiR Gym and Wellhub
• Monthly TGIF events.
• Regular team-building events.
• Fun and friendly work environment with talented marketers and engineers from over 40+ countries
• And more!