Senior Backend Engineer (Django), High Ownership

Work & Travel Guide is a young, fast-growing startup. We are building a product that helps people discover the world... smarter, simpler, and radically better than anything available today.

But this is about more than features.

We are building the infrastructure for freedom.

For people who do not want to travel someday, but now.

You will join at a stage where your decisions will make a real difference:

• →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.

• 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.

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.