Wolf & Badger is on a mission to make retail fair. Working to support our community of 2000+ independent designers from around the globe, we connect customers with ethically sourced fashion, design, home and beauty through our online marketplace and flagship stores in London, New York City and Los Angeles. We are a rapidly growing scale-up business, now entering an exciting new phase of growth and looking to expand our team of c.115 people currently located between London, Málaga, New York and Los Angeles. We are a Certified B Corporation, with social and environmental purpose at the core of everything we do, read more about us here.
Wolf & Badger is an innovative technology-led retail business that has exciting and ambitious plans for the next stages of development on our bespoke e-commerce platform.
We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Python developer to help us maintain and build exciting new features and support our fast growing business.
We have a small, cross-functional and supportive team of engineers. We work in sprints and practice continuous deployment through Gitlab.
Our product is currently a custom built e-commerce platform, with Python and Django in the backend stack and the frontend built with a Gatsby (React) based application.
This role is primarily remote-based with the option of working at our lovely office in King's Cross on a flexible basis.
You will:
- Work closely and collaborate with our Head of Product, Business Intelligence Engineer and the development team to deliver innovative, efficient and valuable features
- Work alongside non-technical stakeholders to implement considered solutions that meet complex business requirements
- Maintain and improve our product/codebase, considering scalability and the end user at all times
Requirements
- Passionate about solving complex, challenging and interesting business problems
- You should have solid professional experience with Python and Django, with a thorough approach to testing
- An independent worker, comfortable both working alone and as part of a team of in-house developers
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Applicants for this role will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and be highly self-motivated and passionate
Technical requirements:
- Experience building scalable backend services in Python (Django preferable) 🐍
- Great experience working with Celery and Redis/RabbitMQ
- A solid understanding of relational databases (Postgres)
- Experience with Django Rest Framework
- Unix based software i.e. Linux, Debian or OSX
- Good knowledge on HTML/CSS
Desirable:
- Dev ops tools (eg. Docker and k8s)
- Experience configuring automated deployments to cloud infrastructure (AWS, DigitalOcean, GCS)
- CI/CD experience (eg. Gitlab pipelines, CircleCI)
- Experience working with Apache or NGINX
- Automation test experience
- Experience in e-commerce/Retail
- Degree in related field eg Computer Science
Benefits
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience (£45,000 - £60,000)
- Equity! Stock options in Wolf & Badger, a rapidly growing scale-up, to participate in and benefit from our shared success.
- Flexibility: Flexible working from home policy with access to a creative work environment within Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross
- Meaningful work. You'll be part of a trailblazing B-Corp which is changing the e-commerce landscape - for people and planet!
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Generous paid sick leave allocation - to support physical and mental wellbeing
- Paid 'pet-ernity' and heartbreak leave
- Corporate ClassPass membership to use for exercise classes, wellbeing and beauty treatments in a large number of locations across the UK.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Fresh fruit and well-stocked beverages cupboard onsite
- Staff discounts on cafe, restaurant and retail at Wolf & Badger
- Excellent career opportunities in a supportive team within a rapidly growing award-winning international business.
Please note Wolf & Badger can provide visa sponsorships for exceptional candidates.
Wolf & Badger is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.
