Junior Backend Developer (Django)

Company: X5 Location: Moscow

We are a rapidly growing advertising business within a large corporation and are looking for ambitious, proactive individuals ready to grow with us. We value openness, boldness, speed, and genuine engagement.

We are looking for junior specialists who want to start or actively develop their careers in a large company with an interesting product, and are ready to constantly improve their expertise in all areas.

With us, you will build an advertising platform from scratch that will become a household name! If you are interested in professional development and continuous skill growth within a support team that helps other teams constantly improve the advertising dashboard, then welcome to the team!

What you will be doing:

• Developing the backend for the advertiser's personal account. Our product is a complex system of many services managed by a user admin panel.
• Developing and applying your knowledge of working with high-load systems and large data volumes in practice.
• Writing autotests using pytest; we take the quality of our product seriously.
• Participating in code reviews and continuous learning.
• Developing tools for developers, and automation tools for deploying application instances.
• Developing utilities for data processing.
• Learning to implement AI at all stages of development.
• Writing a large amount of high-quality code.

Our stack:

Backend: Python 3.11+, Django 5+, Django Rest Framework. Databases: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse (being implemented for analytics). Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD. Testing: pytest.

What we expect from the candidate:

• At least 1 year of commercial development experience or interesting pet projects.
• Understanding of relational database principles (PostgreSQL in our case).
• Linux skills.
• Git skills.
• Understanding of how the web works: HTTP, REST, principles of client-server interaction.
• Docker skills