Senior Django Backend Engineer – FinTech & AI-Driven Platform

Teamified; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Leave Benefits

13th Month Salary

Online learning budget

Job summary

Teamified is hiring a hands-on senior backend engineer to ship production Django applications and shape scalable architecture for our Australian fintech client. You will work in a small team, closely with engineering heads, and be based in Melbourne, with flexible remote options for our global team.

You will own core services, drive testing and security, and contribute to AI-powered features while partnering with product and stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend experience with production Django applications.
• Deep Django knowledge: ORM, migrations, permissions, DRF, async patterns.
• Strong PostgreSQL data modeling skills.
• Testing mindset with solid test coverage practices.
• Experience with cloud infra: Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security instincts: auth and authorization with an identity provider (e.g., Auth0/Okta).
• Ownership: drive work from design to production and accountability after release.
• Clear written and verbal communication with product and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own backend services in Django and DRF powering web portal, mobile app and white-label environments.
• Work on the payments core: card issuing, lifecycle, spend controls, and transaction handling.
• Build and harden features and integrate workflow enhancements across the platform.
• Leverage AI tooling and ship AI-powered product features.
• Lead technical design: write design docs and ADRs, run decomposition sessions, and simplify architecture.
• Raise the engineering bar: improve test coverage and SDLC/AI-DLC processes.
• Own production quality: monitoring in Datadog, incident response and on-call rotation.
• Review code, mentor engineers and advance AI tooling in daily development.

Skills

Django

DRF

PostgreSQL

Testing

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Communication

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

GCP

Auth0/Okta

Job description

Teamified is hiring a hands-on senior backend engineer to ship production Django applications and shape scalable architecture for our Australian fintech client. You will work in a small team, closely with engineering heads, and be based in Melbourne, with flexible remote options for our global team.

You will own core services, drive testing and security, and contribute to AI-powered features while partnering with product and stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable software.