About Blue Robot

About our mothership: Ad Dynamo

Ad Dynamo is a well-established tech-driven advertising business. We have the exclusive rights to represent Twitter in Africa and ensure local customers receive comparable service levels to what they would receive directly from Twitter.

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.
• Guaranteed annual working holiday to San Francisco every year to meet top tech platforms & share ideas.
• Choose your own Mac to your personal specifications.
• Beat the traffic and work from our Stellenbosch or Cape Town offices, with official start time ranging from 6:30am 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, Spec, 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 need to 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'll meet some of the 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! :)