About Blue Robot

About our mothership: Ad Dynamo

Ad Dynamo is Africa’s largest digital media sales house. We’re passionate about helping leading brands across Africa connect directly with their audience. We only work with platforms that allow us to represent them exclusively – this enables us to operate a dedicated team for each platform, meaning that brands get access to true depth of expertise across each platform that we represent. Our current portfolio includes Twitter, Snapchat, Oath, Spotify and Ad Dynamo Sports.

What we do

We have developed Blue Robot, our own tech platform that is used by global brands and Twitter to deliver automated social experiences. Blue Robot is integrated with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Our tech team focuses on developing Blue Robot and is responsible for:

• Developing innovative new experiences;
• Integration with social media platforms via API;
• Innovation and enhancement of our product set;
• Informing the business of new technology opportunities through thought leadership & research;

Why Work For Us

• Be part of building something global with an established and growing sales track record;
• A competitive salary;
• We value your opinion & experience: be included in making tech decisions;
• Interact with major social platforms directly.
• Work on your choice of MacBook Pro or iMac.
• Beat the traffic with official start time ranging from 6am to 9am.
• Blue Robot knows how to sell! Be part of building cool shit that actually goes live (many times over!).

Our Culture

We're focused on building great things, but we also realise that we can have fun doing it. Our engineering team in Cape Town has their own dedicated workspace, and there are (hardly) no rules. No dress code + Flexible working hours + Democratic decision making + {(Clear Product Vision) x (Measurable Real World Impact)} = #LoveWhereYouWork

Our Engineering Processes

• Full Agile + SCRUM Methodologies
• Full project life-cyle: Requirements, Design, Implementation, QA and UAT

Our Hiring Process

We have a 3 stage interview process:

1. Technical test which you have 7 days to complete. We will send you the test via email which you will do online. The test should take approximately 90 minutes to complete, the questions consist of topics from the job specification which we use on a daily basis.

2. We'll invite you for an onsite interview with our CTO and tech leads to show us what you're made of.

3. Lastly, you may meet some of the other senior people in the business before we make an offer.

It sounds like a mouthful but it's actually quick and painless. The plus side is that you know you will be working with the best developers in their field. Best of luck! :)