TL;DR

Senior Django Backend Engineer: Delivering exciting new features and improving existing ones for an AI photo editor, collaborating closely with frontend engineers and product owners with an accent on optimizing endpoints and ensuring scalability. Focus on architecture, coding features, and monitoring releases' performance to drive down latency.

Location: Remote across Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ), with quarterly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed).

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

Company

%hirify_global% is the world's most popular AI photo editor, creating technology that allows anyone to create studio-level product images in minutes.

What you will do

Own your work from architecture and coding features to monitoring releases' performance.
Iterate quickly based on fast feedback from users, updating the backend multiple times a week.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver seamless user experiences.
Optimise existing endpoints, driving down latency and ensuring scalability.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in backend development with Django and Django Rest Framework.
Experience working with a relational database at scale, designing schemas, optimising Django queries, and running migrations with minimal downtime.
Hands-on experience with a PostgreSQL/MySQL database larger than 100 GB.
Experience designing endpoints in direct collaboration with frontend engineers, delivering both Open API and developer manuals/supporting documentation.
Pragmatic, favouring speed of iteration and leveraging frameworks and libraries.
Strong sense of ownership, taking initiative and making product & technical decisions.
Fluent in English.

Culture & Benefits

Work flexibly from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ).
Regular team gatherings, including in-person onboarding in Paris, yearly company offsite and team retreat, and quarterly in-person meetings.
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.
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).