Django Developer, The Developer Society

Birmingham, United Kingdom

We’re looking for a Django Developer to join our team and strengthen our support and delivery capacity across a growing portfolio of partner work. For this particular role we’re looking for someone with strong Django experience, and knowledge of Wagtail would be ideal too.

You’ll be joining our Partner Success team as a technical contributor, responsible for maintaining and delivering solutions that support our SLA (Service Level Agreement) and retainer-based partners. This role combines hands-on development work with a strong focus on reliability, responsiveness, and technical partnership - prioritising uptime, speed of resolution, and consistent delivery for our partners.

We’re looking for intelligent people with an eagerness to learn new things. As well as technical knowledge, we need someone who gets it - someone who is a natural problem solver, knows when to ask for support, and can turn messy incoming requests into calm, practical solutions.

We’re not just code machines - we’re humans, so we need developers who collaborate, support, and work together to help the whole team succeed. This role suits someone who can combine solid backend development with technical leadership in process: helping a team deliver well without needing to formally manage it.

We have a lot of clients / partners, and a lot of codebases. You won’t be working on the same project for months, but need to be confident about context switching, making sensible technical decisions, and working across multiple streams of work.

The Role involves:

Working with Python, Django, and Wagtail (our favourite CMS framework)

Picking up and delivering backend development work across a range of partner projects and retainers with SLAs in place

Sprint management - ensuring that sprint goals are met

Supporting issue triage - helping to assess incoming requests, and picking up quick fixes to keep our partners happy

Improving team processes around deployment, environments, release visibility, and technical handover

Interacting with the partners we work with to help scope, plan, and sometimes directly respond to technical work

Collaboratively working with project managers, designers, and other developers to deliver successful work as a team

Reviewing other developers’ code to promote best practices and encourage co-operative learning

Being able to adapt and integrate new technologies quickly, using new APIs and technologies as needed

Taking non-technical requests and designing solutions which result in logical data structures, smooth user experiences, well tested code, and long-term code-base health

We are looking for someone who…

Has strong professional experience with Python and Django

Enjoys working across multiple projects and codebases

Can confidently work in existing systems, improve them, and make sensible technical decisions

Is comfortable being a senior technical presence within a team, without needing formal line management responsibility

Can help others learn through pairing, reviewing, explaining, and unblocking

Is organised and comfortable with context switching

Can communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical people

Seeks working in an agency environment (albeit a not-for-profit one!)

Enjoys the Zen of Python and ‘Pythonic’ code

Is energised by working on projects for charities and non-profits

Can balance the perfectionists-with-deadlines mantra of Django for the resource constrained third-sector

Is big hearted and keen to make the world a better place

Knows the importance of sharing skills and learning

The following would be a bonus...

Knowledge of Wagtail CMS

Confidence with deployment workflows, release processes, and environment management

DevOps awareness and confidence working close to infrastructure, even if not a full-time DevOps specialist

Some front-end confidence, enough to handle simpler changes where useful

Experience supporting or maintaining long-running partner relationships through ongoing technical work

Experience with React Native or willingness to learn enough to support adjacent app work