Django / Python Developer

About this job

Location options: Remote
Job type: Full-time

Technologies

javascript, docker, django, postgres

Job description

Are you looking to work with a sophisticated cloud environment spanning multiple service providers and to act in a cross-functional role? Then we’d be happy to welcome you to our team as Django / Python Developer for Divio's products!

Start date: according to mutual agreement Location: Sweden, Germany Employment type: 80-100%

Divio Technologies is a Swiss-Swedish cloud management service provider and the company behind the Divio platform. Divio enriches cloud management with PaaS features by combining cloud management with application deployment and development features. We simplify cloud management to deliver an optimized environment for enterprises, agencies and software developers across the world. By using our platform customers can not only quickly build and run highly scalable applications but also reduce cloud infrastructure costs, time to market and free up valuable developer time.

We work with multiple cloud providers and our platform comes with multi-cloud management capabilities. All backed by a passionate technical support.

With us you’ll directly have an impact on solving daily technical challenges as we simply love technology and enjoy our daily work with Python, Django, Docker, JavaScript and more. We believe good products are born out of collaboration, and the passion for our work comes with the challenging goals we set for ourselves and how we solve them as a team.

Is it your dream to work on new ideas and approaches for cloud-based services and products in a fast-paced environment? Wonderful!

Meaningful, satisfying work

You love developing products and applications in Python/Django, and you’ll bring that enthusiasm to collaborate with your colleagues on our products. Working closely with our front-end development, your challenge will be to ensure that our customers enjoy the best possible experience - and to keep making it even better. In this exciting role you’ll be constantly on the lookout for ways to extend, optimise and modernise the platform. You’ll have the opportunity to introduce new ideas while being involved in the conception, development and maintenance of cutting-edge enhancements and new features.

As well as coding, you’ll also review code, write documentation, and join our support team helping customers enjoy using our products as much as we do building them. We follow a philosophy of active interaction with our customers and like every member of our team you’ll assist them with help and expertise.

If you’re looking for exciting development opportunities to work on and a position that offers true responsibilities and a great team to be a part of, then Divio is the perfect place for you.

Divio is at a really exciting point in its trajectory and we want to partner with a candidate who is excited to work with us on the cloud management and PaaS products and the future of the company. You want to be a part of our resourceful and fast-working team, and you are able to contribute to our ambitious aims.

Benefits

https://www.divio.com/company/careers/

Skills & requirements

What you’ll bring:

• 2+ years of professional experience working with Python and Django.
• Hands-on experience with modern development tools and best practices, including experience writing documentation and unit tests.
• Source-code management using Git.
• Familiarity working with the Linux command line and dockerized setups.
• 2+ years of experience with an RDBMS of your choice.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and experience in working in an intercultural and geographically dispersed company.
• Proficient command of spoken and written English.
• Legally eligible to work either in Sweden or Germany.

Within 1 month, you'll:

• Learn about the business and dive into the inner workings of our platform.
• Have one-on-one's and pairing sessions with some of the people you'll be working closely with and get to know your engineering peers across our product umbrella.
• Do a deep dive into the code base and learn more about how we use Django to power our products.
• Interact with your first customer and help them solve an issue they are experiencing with our platform.
• Tackle your first ticket by committing changes & helping perform code reviews with the team.

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Establish strong communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against ongoing tasks.
• Join the support rotation and help the team pay down technical debt and improve customer experience.
• Gain a more robust understanding of the needs of the product and become more comfortable with diagnosing problems.
• Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product and support teams through thoughtful feedback.

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Make a significant impact on our team efficiency by solving repetitive tasks and issues via strong technical solutions.
• Become more and more independent by judging needs and making your own decisions about what needs to be worked on next.
• Be able to occasionally cover for other team members during an on-call rotation.

Within 12 months, you'll:

• Elevate the work of the team and become a go-to person for an area that interests you.
• Have significant ownership over making extensive contributions to newly emerging customer needs.
• Are at ease working on any part of the platform.
• Extensively collaborate with engineering leadership to level up the team and continually improve the scalability and efficiency of the platform.

As well as being part of an inspiring team and having the opportunity to contribute your own unique skills and expertise to it, you‘ll also benefit from an environment where everyone contributes to get things done. Your future colleagues are friendly, easy-going, hard-working people who are curious about and up-to-date with the developments in the tech world, always ready to share their knowledge and support each other to reach their goals. We foster a friendly workplace of respect and trust, and our team enjoys great flexibility and home working.

Do you think you and Divio would be a good fit? We’d be delighted to receive your application!

Information for recruiters/third parties

For this position, we only accept direct applications from candidates and will not consider unsolicited resumes from recruiters/third parties.