The company is looking for a Backend Django Engineer to own core backend features end-to-end, from data modeling to implementing logic and exposing it through fast, reliable services, to support their AI- and algorithm-driven systems.
Requirements
- Strong experience building backend applications with Python + Django*.
- Solid understanding of relational data modeling and SQL (we use PostgreSQL).
- Comfortable designing and building RESTful APIs (bonus if you’ve used DRF or similar frameworks).
- Experience working on non-trivial business logic or algorithms (e.g., decision flows, scoring rules, optimization logic).
- Good instincts around performance: understanding query behavior, avoiding obvious pitfalls, and using caching when it counts.
- Experience in startups, side projects, or hackathons where you’ve had to ship scrappy solutions fast.
- Background in algorithms, optimization, or data-heavy systems.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production.
- Familiarity with Redis (caching, queues) and PostgreSQL at some scale.
- Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and/or serverless on GCP.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python + Django* (and DRF or similar).
- Model and evolve our domain in the database with clean, well-structured schemas and relationships.
- Implement algorithmic/AI logic in the backend (e.g., scoring, ranking, routing, decision rules).
- Write pragmatic, production-ready code that’s easy to reason about and iterate on.
- Optimize for correctness and performance: efficient queries, smart indexing, and lean responses.
- Work with the team to turn product ideas into concrete technical designs and endpoints.
- Help shape how we build things: patterns, conventions, and how we ship and iterate as we grow.
Other
- A startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and iterating based on real-world feedback.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment and communicate clearly.
- Working with a small distributed team across several countries.
