Junior Python Backend Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Junior Python Backend Developer

• Focus: Backend development with FastAPI on a production system that scales

Description

Join a team developing a cloud learning platform for students who need special education support. You will deliver new backend functionality end-to-end, with real impact on final code, architecture, and product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain integrations with external systems and APIs

• Develop and extend the backend in FastAPI

• Implement new endpoints and business logic

• Diagnose issues caused by communication with external services

• Work with PostgreSQL and optimize SQL queries

• Write and maintain automated tests

• Participate in code review and make technical decisions

• Improve existing solutions and propose better approaches

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of commercial experience developing Python backend applications

• Solid knowledge of REST APIs and practical integration skills for external services

• Ability to independently analyze problems, design solutions, and implement features

• Experience working with relational databases and writing SQL queries

• Understanding of asynchronous programming in Python

• Debugging skills for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues

• Attention to code quality, readability, and maintainability

• Practical Git knowledge and teamwork skills, including code review

• Ability to work with and extend existing code

• Conscious use of AI programming-support tools or willingness to use them

Benefits

• Small team with a flat structure and direct communication

• Flexible work start times

• AI tool licenses

• B2B, UoP, or UZ employment options

• Office in Warsaw (Żoliborz); fully on-site, 5 days/week (occasional remote work possible)

Recruitment process

• CV review

• 10-minute video screening

• Recruitment assignment + logic test

• In-person meeting