
Senior Django Backend Engineer
Photoroom
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Paris • France
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Salary
💰 €100,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own your work from A to Z: architecture & coding features to monitoring releases' performance
- Get fast feedback from users and iterate quickly
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to actively help 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
- Strong sense of ownership and initiative
- Fluent in English (French is not required!)
Benefits
- Work flexibly from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ)
- 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, giving you ownership in our growing company
- €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
- Access to personalised mental health support, including 1:1 sessions with therapists or coaches, self-care tools, and well-being resources via MokaCare
- Sports and cultural activities reimbursement
- Relocation support (up to 10k) available for those choosing to move to France, including apartment finding and visa assistance.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend developmentDjangoDjango Rest Frameworkrelational databasePostgreSQLMySQLschema designoptimising queriesrunning migrationsendpoint design
Soft skills
ownershipinitiativecollaborationuser experience designfast feedbackiteration