About this role
Are you a Senior Python/Django Engineer who embraces AI as a core force multiplier in software development? At Plecto, we are looking for an experienced backend developer to help build and scale our real-time performance platform while leveraging modern AI coding tools to move faster, ship higher-quality code, and redefine how software is built At Plecto, our mission is to create the world’s #1 performance platform. We empower teams across the globe with real-time dashboards and data-driven insights. To maintain our edge, we foster an engineering culture that actively experiments with and adopts AI-native workflows, tools, and automation.
What you will do
- As a Senior Python Developer at Plecto, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing the backend of our real-time performance platform.
Key Responsibilities
- We encourage and support using AI assistants (we currently generally prefer Conductor with Claude) across the entire software development lifecycle.
- AI handles routine boilerplate, code generation, initial test writing, and refactoring so you can focus on architecture, complex domain logic, and high-impact problems.
- We treat AI literacy and prompt engineering as essential engineering skills alongside clean code and architectural design.
- Designing and developing scalable, high-throughput backend services and APIs using Python and Django.
- Working with modern data systems including PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and message queues/streaming setups.
- Building and helping to improve our infrastructure to support reliability, scalability, and performance as we grow.
- Leveraging AI tools to accelerate feature iteration, automated test generation, and system optimization while maintaining high engineering quality.
- Taking end-to-end ownership of backend architecture, from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and performance tuning in production.
- Collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver features that scale to thousands of active global users.
- Mentoring teammates and sharing best practices on both traditional Python development and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience with Python and Django building production-grade systems.
- Proven track record of using AI code assistants to boost development velocity, improve code quality, and automate workflows.
- Required Technical Expertise Experience with building and maintaining production systems.
- Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Docker and deploying applications in cloud environments.
- DevOps: Some experience with DevOps practices, such as CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and monitoring/observability tooling.
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL), query optimization, caching (Redis), and search/indexing (Elasticsearch).
- Solid background in containerization (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
- Pragmatic engineering mindset, focused on shipping high-quality code, technical clarity, and measurable impact.
- AI-Assisted Development: Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code to boost productivity and code quality, and comfortable working with Conductor as our coding editor.
What we offer you
- An AI-forward engineering environment equipped with modern tools and subscriptions.
- Growth opportunities in a high-performing, international B2B SaaS company.
- Open workplace culture focused on ownership, initiative, and team execution based in Aarhus with colleagues in Warsaw.