Remote Backend Django Engineer – AI & Algorithmic Systems

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python + Django (and DRF or similar)
• ▹Model and evolve the domain in the database with clean schemas and relationships
• ▹Implement algorithmic and AI logic in the backend (scoring, ranking, routing, decision rules)
• ▹Write pragmatic, production-ready code that is easy to reason about
• ▹Optimize for correctness and performance: efficient queries, smart indexing, lean responses
• ▹Turn product ideas into concrete technical designs and endpoints with the team

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience building backend applications with Python + Django
• ▹Solid understanding of relational data modeling and SQL (PostgreSQL)
• ▹Comfortable designing and building RESTful APIs
• ▹Experience with non-trivial business logic or algorithms (decision flows, scoring rules, optimization)
• ▹Good instincts around performance: query behavior, caching where it counts
• ▹Startup mindset, comfortable with ambiguity
• ▹Ability to work independently and communicate clearly in a remote environment

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in startups, side projects or hackathons shipping fast
• ▹Background in algorithms, optimization or data-heavy systems
• ▹Production experience with Google Cloud Platform
• ▹Familiarity with Redis (caching, queues) and PostgreSQL at scale
• ▹Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and/or serverless on GCP

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹$100 bonus for successfully completing the assessment

About the company

A remote, product-focused startup building AI- and algorithm-driven systems, working with a small distributed team across several countries.