Senior Django Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Django Backend Engineer: Delivering new features and improving existing ones for an AI photo editor, collaborating closely with frontend engineers and product owners. Focus on optimizing endpoints, reducing latency, and ensuring scalability for ever greater usages.

Location: Remote across Europe with quarterly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed)

Salary: 100k £/€ + Stock-Options/BSPCE

Company

hirify.global is an AI photo editor that helps anyone create studio-level product images in minutes.

What you will do

• Own your work from architecture and coding features to monitoring releases' performance.
• Get fast feedback from users and iterate quickly, updating the backend multiple times a week and making data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., product, front-end) to actively help design and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Optimize existing endpoints, driving down latency and ensuring scalability.

Requirements

• Work flexibly from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ)
• You have 5+ years of experience in backend development with Django and Django Rest Framework.
• You have experience working with a relational database at scale, designing schemas, optimizing Django queries, and running migrations with minimal downtime.
• You have hands-on experience with a PostgreSQL/MySQL database larger than 100 GB.
• You have experience designing endpoints in direct collaboration with frontend engineers, delivering both Open API and developer manuals/supporting documentation.
• You are fluent in English.

Benefits

• Regular team gatherings, including in-person onboarding in Paris (1-2 weeks), yearly company offsite and team retreat, quarterly in-person meetings (monthly during probation period), and social events like winter party and hackathons.
• 30 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
• Competitive equity package with stock options/BSPCE.
• €1000 one-time home office grant OR €400 per month co-working space stipend.
• €1,000 annual learning and development budget for training, courses, books, and skill development.
• Private health insurance and access to personalized mental health support.
• Relocation support (up to 10k) available for those choosing to move to France, including apartment finding and visa assistance.

Hiring process

• Screening call with Talent Manager (30min).
• Technical interview with Hiring Manager (45min).
• Take-home assignment and live review with the team (45min).
• Culture fit interviews and meet the team (~3h in total).