Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will build and enhance backend systems and APIs with Django, improve frontend integration with React, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and testing for high-quality software delivery.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Backend & APIs - Django (main focus)
- Build and continuously improve backend systems and APIs in Django.
- Übernehmen Sie die Verantwortung für Architekturentscheidungen in Bezug auf Skalierbarkeit, Zuverlässigkeit und Wartbarkeit.
- Frontend - React (experience with any other frontend technology is fine)
- 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.
- Engineering Excellence
- 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.
- AI-supported Productivity
- Actively use and improve AI-assisted development workflows to iterate faster, increase quality, and automate repetitive work.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Excellent backend skills, especially with Django, APIs, and data models.
- Solid understanding of architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles.
- Starke Testing- und QA-Praktiken.
- Vertrautheit mit modernen Toolchains und Workflows, einschließlich KI-gestützter Entwicklung.
Experience
- Starke Erfahrung in der Backend-Entwicklung. Erfahrung im Frontend mit einem beliebigen Framework ist von Vorteil.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, including build pipelines, tests, deployments, and release processes.
- 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.
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What we offer
- 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.
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Topics You Will Work On
Job Locations
About Your Employer
Work and Travel Guide (WTG) GmbH
Work and Travel Guide (WTG) GmbH, based in Hamburg, assists backpackers in planning their individual travel routes to Australia and offers resume creation and job search support.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid
- Industry
- Hotel and Restaurant Industry, Tourism
Senior Backend Engineer
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
