Intermediate Backend Engineer (Python & Django)

About the role

Sabenza IT & Recruitment is looking for an intermediate backend engineer with strong Python and Django experience to develop, maintain and enhance backend applications and services. The ideal candidate has solid software engineering fundamentals, hands-on production experience and a practical approach to solving technical problems. You will work closely with other developers and stakeholders to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions across the software development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend applications and services using Python and Django.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrations.
• Translate business and technical requirements into practical software solutions.
• Work with relational databases and write efficient SQL queries.
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve application and production issues.
• Write clean, maintainable and reusable code, participate in code reviews and follow established development standards.
• Contribute to testing, deployment and continuous improvement of applications.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, QA, product and other technical stakeholders, and take ownership of assigned features.

Required profile

• BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical qualification.
• 4+ years of professional backend software development experience.
• Proven production experience developing and maintaining applications with Python and Django.
• Strong understanding of software development principles, object-oriented programming and clean, maintainable code.

Required skills

• Strong Python and solid programming fundamentals.
• Hands-on production experience with Django.
• RESTful APIs, preferably with Django REST Framework (DRF).
• API design and backend service architecture.
• Solid SQL and relational database knowledge.
• Git and standard software development practices.
• Advantageous: DRF, React or other modern JavaScript frameworks, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines, Docker, automated testing and DevOps exposure.