Senior Backend Engineer – Django

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🕒 May 22

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workandtravelguide.org

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2025

🏨 Hospitality

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Hospitality • Consulting • Logistics

workandtravelguide. org is a Germany-based service that helps backpackers plan Work & Travel trips to Australia, offering route planning, job placement (farm, hospitality, events, construction), professional CV creation, 1:1 coaching, bookings and a community-driven app and WhatsApp support. They provide free consultations, premium membership features with a job guarantee and 24/7 assistance, and accompany travelers from departure through return.

📋 Description

• Build and continuously improve backend systems and APIs in Django. • Take ownership of architecture decisions around scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Build features in the React frontend, including UI, state management, and backend integration. • Improve performance and developer experience. • Design clean interfaces between frontend and backend. • Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows. • Consistently apply clean code, design patterns, and strong system design principles. • Refactor larger parts of the codebase to improve long-term maintainability, using modern tools such as Claude Code. • Systematically expand testing and QA, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing depending on the area. • Actively use and improve AI-assisted development workflows to iterate faster, increase quality, and automate repetitive work.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in backend development. • Some frontend experience in any framework is preferred. • Excellent backend skills, especially with Django, APIs, and data models. • Solid understanding of architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles. • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, including build pipelines, tests, deployments, and release processes. • Strong testing and QA practices. • Familiarity with modern toolchains and workflows, including AI-assisted development. • Bonus: Experience with Go and/or Rust, or strong curiosity to learn them, as we plan to expand parts of the system in that direction over time.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote option , or work from our office in Frankfurt, Germany — whatever you prefer. • High autonomy and ownership : you influence decisions and build end-to-end. • Direct collaboration with the CTO : short feedback loops, fast decisions, and real technical leadership. • Your ideas matter : small team, big impact, fast iteration. • Retreats and workations : you are invited to come join us for workations in interesting and inspiring places all around the world regularly. • Strong engineering culture : clean architecture, code reviews, testing, and observability. • AI at the core : modern AI tooling stacks, used only where they truly make sense. • Stock option program for employees who stand out through exceptional talent and commitment.