Python Engineer, Journee
Django
£60-75k
Employee options (you’ll own a piece of Journee!)
3+ days a week in office (Bethnal Green, London)
Planning surprise trips to unconventional destinations!
Job no longer available
Planning surprise trips to unconventional destinations!
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-75k
Employee options (you’ll own a piece of Journee!)
3+ days a week in office (Bethnal Green, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make exploring new cultures easy and fun.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3-4 years+ experience with Python across multiple projects
- Experience of Django. We’re heavy users of Django’s core features, so you need to have worked with Django before.
- The desire to work in scaling startups and lean teams
- Technical proficiency, intrinsic motivation, and the ability to work independently
- Willingness to voice opinions and get stuck into a challenge
- You're a problem solver with a passion for automation.
- You're looking for an meaningful role where the work you do makes a difference. We can give you that. You don’t want to be a small part of a large machine; you want to see your impact. We’re all about having a big impact with a small team, and you’ll take pride in pushing that forwards.
Desirable
- Worked with systems design, architecture, and cloud infrastructure
- Worked in a B2C start-up with lean teams
- You are a product-minded backend engineer
What the job involves
- Build out user-facing features as we scale and develop the digital experiences we can offer
- Expanding the capabilities of our Journee matchmaking technology. This software is the beating heart of what we do. Needless to say we’re pretty proud of it, and it can be so much more with your input!
- Build new features from scratch and make improvements to our internal systems. This includes continuing to innovate the delivery and management of booked trips
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Customer Support and Operations teams to guide operational efficiencies and external/internal improvements
- Designing and extending backend architectures in a scalable and secure way, leveraging cloud infrastructure. An appreciation of systems architecture is important as we’re still laying the groundwork
- Implementing tests, conducting peer reviews, and giving feedback
- Go on a trip!!! Make notes, and then come back and suggest how we can make the Journee experience even better
Application process
- Apply via Welcome to the Jungle or via our Careers Website
- 1st stage video call interview with Annie, Talent Lead, to discuss your career so far, life at Journee and the role
- 2nd stage video call with James, our CTO, to have a deeper dive into your technical knowledge, the role and projects you’ll be working on
- Final stage office visit where you will work on technical test with James and Hayden
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Journee believes the true joy of travel often comes from moments of spontaneity. Whether it's a discovery of a hidden gem or an exciting excursion, there are lots of different things that make our traveling experiences memorable.
In 2019, UK residents took 72.6 million trips overseas. Each trip made is usually coupled with a lot of time spent browsing through a myriad of companies promising the 'experience of a lifetime'. Travelers book a trip hoping that it will meet their expectations based on reviews from people who all hold their own set of preferences for what makes a trip meaningful.
Journee looks to make its mark in the travel industry by matching users with unique destinations based on their travel personality. After filling in a 15-minute Trip Matchmaker form, the travel experts take care of everything so there's no need to research, plan or book anything. In the run-up to the trip, the travelers will be given clues about where they're going and will only find out where they're going once they've turned up at the airport.
This new approach to traveling is likely to find success with Gen Z due to its spontaneous and stress-free nature. To stay competitive within the travel industry, they will need to continue to provide best-in-class remote problem resolution to help travelers with any issues they run into.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
63% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Working towards inspiring people to travel curiously and adventurously feels incredibly rewarding. The driving force behind what we do is to make..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$2.2m
SEED
Apr 2021
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.7m
Company benefits
- Employee options (you’ll own a piece of Journee!)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Work from Anywhere - For up to 3 weeks per year, every year!
- And so that you can experience the product you’ve built first hand, it only seems right that every employee should enjoy a Journee trip worth £1000, on us, every year!
Company values
- Authenticity
- Courage
- Curiosity
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ed Tribe
(Co-Founder)Ed studied Ancient History and History at Nottingham, before becoming the Head of Growth at Depop. Most unique travel memory: going to the top of Mount Etna in Sicily, 3km upwards.
Megha Chaturvedi
(Co-Founder)Megha studied Engineering, prior to gaining an MBA and becoming the Growth Manager at Depop. Most unique travel memory: Spotting a polar bear devouring a whale in the wild in Svalbard!
James Gillard
(Technical Co-Founder)James has an MEng in Electronic Engineering, and was previously a Platform Engineer at Depop. Most unique travel memory: Climbing into the Ijen crater in Indonesia.
People progressing
Anna was promoted to a Senior Community Exec in under 2 years, before being promoted to Marketing Exec recently. Unique travel memory: Visiting a Maasai Village in the middle of Kenya's Rift Valley!
Sophie joined as employee #1 and was promoted to Senior Community Exec in under 2 years. Now, she is our Product Manager. Travel memory: Spending 48 hours alone in the mountains in southern Alaska.
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