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About us:
Playo is a leading global sports activity platform with over 5 million users across 5 countries, connecting players, venues, trainers, and brands in one full-stack ecosystem across 50+ sports. We operate at the intersection of consumer technology, social networking, marketplaces and real-world logistics, and are building a scalable, multi-vertical sports-tech venture with a focus on long-term sustainability and global growth.
The Opportunity:
We are hiring a Backend Python Developer to join Playo's engineering team. You will build, scale, and maintain Python services, REST APIs, and data models.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Build scalable, secure, and maintainable backend applications using Python and Django.
- Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs for mobile, web, and internal use cases.
- Own backend features end to end: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment support, and documentation.
- Improve existing systems for performance, reliability, data consistency, and maintainability.
Requirements:
- 2 years of relevant backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on experience in Python and Django.
- Proven experience building production-grade REST APIs; Django REST framework experience is preferred.
- Strong understanding of databases - MySQL & MongoDB, including schema design, indexing, transactions, and query optimisation.
- High ownership mindset, clear communication, and ability to work in a product-oriented startup environment.
Good to Have:
- Hands-on experience with Docker, AWS or similar cloud services, and CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with Redis, Celery, queues, caching, or asynchronous processing.
- Exposure to observability, monitoring, production troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Passion for sports and fitness.
- Excitement about working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Next Steps:
Believe you have what it takes to join us on the playfield? If so, drop us an email indicating "Backend Python Developer" in the subject line with your resume to careers@playo.co. We would appreciate it if you could briefly articulate why you believe you are best suited for this role.
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