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Senior Backend Engineer, Django
Location
Germany
Posted
77 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, Django
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• Build and continuously improve backend systems and APIs in Django. • Take ownership of architecture decisions around scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Build features in the React frontend, including UI, state management, and backend integration. • Improve performance and developer experience. • Design clean interfaces between frontend and backend. • Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows. • Consistently apply clean code, design patterns, and strong system design principles. • Refactor larger parts of the codebase to improve long-term maintainability. • Systematically expand testing and QA, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. • Actively use and improve AI-assisted development workflows to iterate faster, increase quality, and automate repetitive work.
Job Requirements
- Strong experience in backend development.
- Some frontend experience in any framework is preferred.
- Excellent backend skills, especially with Django, APIs, and data models.
- Solid understanding of architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, including build pipelines, tests, deployments, and release processes.
- Strong testing and QA practices.
- Familiarity with modern toolchains and workflows, including AI-assisted development.
- Bonus Experience with Go and/or Rust, or strong curiosity to learn them, as we plan to expand parts of the system in that direction over time.
Benefits
- 100% remote option , or work from our office in Frankfurt, Germany — whatever you prefer.
- High autonomy and ownership : you influence decisions and build end-to-end.
- Direct collaboration with the CTO : short feedback loops, fast decisions, and real technical leadership.
- Your ideas matter : small team, big impact, fast iteration.
- Retreats and workations : you are invited to come join us for workations in interesting and inspiring places all around the world regularly.
- Strong engineering culture : clean architecture, code reviews, testing, and observability.
- AI at the core : modern AI tooling stacks, used only where they truly make sense.
- Stock option program for employees who stand out through exceptional talent and commitment.
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