Position: Backend Engineer (Python)
Company: Preply
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are searching for a **Backend Engineer (Python)** who is passionate about the vision of our product.

Our Backend Engineers are an integral part of our cross-functional Product teams. You will be part of the entire feature lifecycle from ideation and brainstorming through to deploying your unit-tested and instrumented code to production.

We release our product 50-60 times per day by leveraging technologies like Kubernetes (Skaffold+Helm), Docker and top-notch CI/CD processes. As a fast-growing company we have diverse technical challenges (sometimes we even write about them on our Engineering Blog) that will allow you to develop your skills at scale.

**As a Backend Engineer you will:**

You will work in a cross-functional team and collaborate closely with frontend engineers to deliver backend services for various product initiatives and experiments. You will be customer-focused and make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed of delivery with quality and maintainability.

- Collaborate with your team as you design and implement robust, readable, well-tested and solutions.
- Develop back-end and database driven unit-tested features using Python language and Django frameworks.
- Develop GraphQL endpoints to be consumed by frontend (our frontend stack is React/TypeScript).
- Learn the needs of our users and define solutions with your product manager and tech lead. Think beyond the code and about our customers.
Help us make our best practices even better (test culture, code reviews, mentoring).

**Who are you?**
- Strong knowledge of Python and Django.
- Experience with writing unit tests.
- Experience developing web applications.
- A great collaborator with excellent communication skills.
- High level of self-organization, ownership, and responsibility.
- Minimum B2 English level.
- Bonus skills: Django, RabbitMQ, Celery, GraphQL, AWS, k8s.

**What we offer:**
- An opportunity for personal and professional growth, supported by high functioning teams, stellar investors and the exciting challenges that come with joining a company at the start of its growth trajectory.
- Easy-to-reach location, brand new office in Kooperative.
- An environment free of bureaucracy and corporate constraints; a culture where your opinion is highly valued and appreciated.
- An open, collaborative, dynamic and international culture.
- A monthly allowance for self-development on Preply.com.
- A competitive financial package, with generous leave allowance and health insurance.