Senior Back End (Python 3) Web Developer
Belgrade
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Established in 2014, now with over 500,000 visitors per month, Widewalls is amongst the fastest growing and most successful modern and contemporary art online platforms in the world.
Our mission is, on one end, to provide art lovers with one of the best places on the planet to discover and collect art.
On the other, to help galleries, auction houses, and art fairs to serve the market more efficiently.
Hundreds of thousands of artworks, articles, auction results, artist profiles, and art-related events are available to discover for free on our platform.
After 5 successful years, the company is currently in the process of raising capital (you can see our campaign here: www.seedrs.com/widewalls) to accelerate its growth.
Part of the proceeds will be dedicated to the complete the redesign of our platform, which has reached its limits (it is a wordpress framework)
We are therefore building an in house team for this rewrite, and are notably looking for the most important element of our dev team: a very senior back-end developer (Yourself!)
It’s an exciting chapter for the company and a chance for everyone to be standing on the pillars of something much greater in the making.
WHAT WE OFFER
- 9 month contract, which could be extended (or made permanent) if mutually agreed
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Pet-friendly office in Makedonska
- A project with a global impact
- Expected Start date : max
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Master level or equivalent in IT
- Rigorous, independent, success driven individual
- Experienced in working on similar (successful) projects
- Ability to work fast and efficiently, and to apply best coding practices.
- Excellent knowledge of Python (3), Django, MySQL, MongoDB
- Good knowledge of Linux environment
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the field
- Knowledge of other programming languages and technologies is an advantage
- Decent knowledge of English
- Good communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills
YOU WILL BE DOING
Under the supervision of our Head of IT, you will bring you experience in the project team, to help with the architecture of the project.
And of course you will be instrumental in the development and writing of our new code.
We want our new website to be (much) faster, secure, resilient, and scalable horizontally and vertically. So, unless you are comfortable that you have the skills for such a challenge, please do not apply!
This is a key position in the project. References and recommendations will be systematically checked for any candidate reaching the final phase of recruitment.
Deadline for applications: 05.07.2019.