Job Title: Senior Python Backend Developer
Location: Fully Remote
Position Type: Full-Time/Freelance
About Us:
OrangeUni is a forward-thinking company dedicated to delivering cutting-edge digital solutions. We value innovative ideas, meticulous attention to detail, and a deep understanding of user needs. We are looking for a Senior Python Backend Developer to join our team to create scalable services, ensuring top-notch web security and user experience. If you fancy working on the latest backend features, focusing on both functionality and security, have excellent English proficiency and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, remote environment, we’d love to connect with you!
Position Overview:
Your expertise as a Senior Python Backend Developer and DevOps engineer, your understanding of web security principles will be invaluable to our team. You will be handling a complex, high-traffic platform with thousands of registered users, including video streaming, image processing, and an internal CRM.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Expertise in Python (5+ years) and Django framefork, ORM, migrations, admin interface, creating REST API with Django Rest Framework;
- Experience with setting up or maintaining AWS (S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, CloudFormation) and implementation of OAuth flows;
- Proficiency with Celery (4.x/5.x) and message brokers (Redis or RabbitMQ);
- Experience using Docker (Dockerfile, docker-compose) and basic CI/CD knowledge (GitHub Actions or similar);
- Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL);
- Proficiency in Git (Pull/Merge Requests, Code Reviews, Git Flow);
- English language — upper-intermediate level.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with payment gateways (Mollie or similar Stripe, PayPal, etc.);
- Setting up and optimizing Sentry, logging, and monitoring;
- Testing and working with code quality tools: Pytest, Flake8, Bandit, wemake-python-styleguide;
- Work with internationalization and external integrations (CRM, other APIs);
- Basic Vue.js knowledge or experience interacting with a Vue-based frontend;
- Using feature flags with django-waffle and advanced admin plugins (e.g., CKEditor, image-cropping, sortable2);
- Familiarity with Poetry (managing dependencies with pyproject.toml), Fabric (deployment scripts), and/or Django Channels (real-time WebSockets);
- Handling PDF and image processing (e.g., PyMuPDF, Pillow, heif-image-plugin).
What We Offer:
A fully remote role with flexible working hours.The opportunity to work on innovative projects alongside a collaborative and talented team.Competitive full-time/freelance compensation, based on experience.Room for professional growth and long-term opportunities within the organization.
If you are passionate about creating clean, maintainable, efficient back-end code and driving business success, we want to hear from you! Apply today and join the OrangeUni team as our next Python Developer!
Job Type: Full-time
Application Question(s):
- What are the options for communication of microservices, tell advantages and disadvantages of each? Which options do you have experience with (what was at your previous projects)?
- If an API request takes a long time to proceed: what are the steps you're gonna take to investigate why and what options to improve?
- You need to deploy a project with several microservices, one of them is an online platform with videos via Amazon CloudFormation? Name the resources from Amazon which you probably will need and for what?
Experience:
- Django/FastApi: 5 years (Required)
Language:
- English (Required)
