Software Engineer, Factory (Python/Django)

Location: Tallinn, Estonia; hybrid setup with regular 1–2 days per week in the Tallinn office, short-notice factory visits, and occasional trips to Helsinki and Leipzig. A valid Estonian work permit is required; visa sponsorship and relocation support are not available.

Salary: €3,950–€4,450 per month plus an equity package.

Company

hirify.global refurbishes electronics, including iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and MacBooks, through its factories in Tallinn and Leipzig.

What you will do

• Research and scope factory-floor problems by observing operators and collaborating with product, engineering, automation, vendor, and operations teams.
• Build support for new device categories, including activation, diagnostics, grading, sorting, and packing workflows.
• Maintain automation lines through alerts and operational health dashboards.
• Integrate robots, third-party diagnostics and erasure tools, and other external systems.
• Support station hardware such as label printers, barcode and serial scanners, station PCs, and robot configurations.
• Work directly with product managers and factory operations in a small, autonomous, integrated team.

Requirements

• Solid backend engineering experience, ideally with Python and Django, and experience owning production systems.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills, including diagnosing slow queries on large tables.
• Experience integrating external systems or devices and handling integration failures.
• Curiosity about hardware and willingness to investigate printer, scanner, and machine behavior.
• Ability to research before building, validate existing solutions, ask questions, and challenge requirements based on factory-floor findings.
• Fluent use of AI coding tools with verification of their output.
• Clear communication with non-technical colleagues.
• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• TypeScript, React or Svelte; Kubernetes, Google Cloud, or Datadog.
• Experience in manufacturing, logistics, or warehouse automation.
• Experience with PLCs, USB or serial devices, or industrial equipment.
• Experience running machine learning or image pipelines in production.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, autonomous, integrated team working directly with product and factory operations.
• Weekly planning, rotating technical-support duties, and Friday demos.
• Regular hands-on work on the factory floor is essential.
• Modern stack including Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud.
• Transparent career progression, yearly development discussions, and structured growth for individual contributors and leaders.
• Full-time, permanent employment with an employee stock option program.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted through the application process by 11 November 2026; applications by email are not accepted.