Senior Django Developer

This is a brand new role with a UK Insurance Startup building from the ground up.

AI will be core to their product. The founding team is being formed now and they need a Senior Django Developer to own the Django foundations and set the standard for how their product gets built.

This is a unique chance to join a founding team with a track record of taking Insurance businesses to market. They will be running lean and using AI to maximise customer experience while providing an excellent product to the UK Insurance markets.

What you will be doing

• Owning the Django architecture across models, migrations, app boundaries and the processes everyone follows
• Making the calls on where logic lives, from the model layer through services and views
• Owning the Developer Experience. Making the local dev setup something new engineers can pick up quickly, and keeping the CI loop tight enough that they can ship on day one.
• Setting the technical bar as the first Senior Django voice in the team

The stack

• Python/Django and DRF on the backend
• Celery for background work, caching where it earns its place
• Postgres and the wider Django ecosystem
• JavaScript or HTMX on the frontend
• AI coding tools in the day to day

What they are looking for

• Deep Django experience. Years in production, real depth in the ORM, migrations and DRF
• Full stack track record. Happy owning a feature end to end from data model to UI
• Test suites and CI checks that engineers actually trust, not just tolerate
• Real production experience with AI coding tools, and a clear view on when to lean on them
• Comfortable in the fuzzy space of a startup.
• You can take a rough problem, scope it and ship the first cut without a spec

What is on offer

• Salary up to £100,000 depending on experience
• Meaningful Equity
• Hybrid working. Two days a week in the London office once the space is secured. Fully remote until then
• First senior Django voice in a brand new team
• Freedom to set the technical direction from day one

If you are a Lead or Senior Django Developer based in the UK and have the right experience please APPLY HERE sending your latest CV and if suitable we will have a short screening call before an immediate introduction to the client.

This role is open ONLY to UK residents. Applications received from outside the UK will not be reviewed. Applicants who apply despite being ineligible will have their details blocked from future Foxley Talent roles.