Django Developer

We're looking for a Backend Developer (Django) who genuinely enjoys understanding how systems work underneath the surface and wants to build production systems from the ground up. This is not a role for someone who only knows how to build Django CRUD APIs.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing robust backend services using Python and Django.
• Designing relational databases, schemas, relationships and efficient queries.
• Building and maintaining REST APIs consumed by our web and mobile applications.
• Working on complex workflows around orders, inventory, billing, payments, settlements, returns and procurement.
• Designing systems that handle concurrency, transactions and data consistency correctly.
• Building background jobs and asynchronous workflows where required.
• Writing automated tests and ensuring backend reliability.
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and improving application and database performance.
• Participating in architecture and technical design discussions.
• Reviewing code and maintaining engineering standards across the backend.
• Debugging production issues and taking ownership of problems end-to-end.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Django (Python).
• Strong experience with Django and Django REST Framework.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL or another relational database.
• Strong understanding of system design and Architecture, Database design, transactions, and data consistency, REST API design, authentication, and authorisation, Data structures and fundamental algorithms, Error handling and validation.
• Good understanding of Git and collaborative development.
• Ability to understand an existing codebase and improve it without unnecessarily rewriting everything.

Good to Have:

• Experience building systems from scratch.
• Experience working on product/startup environments.
• Understanding of system design fundamentals.
• Experience with Redis, Celery or other asynchronous/background processing systems.
• Experience with Docker and cloud deployments.
• Understanding of caching, indexing and query optimisation.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving ability.