Senior Django Developer
Orenda, Pakistan

Company Description

Orenda is a social startup working on improving the standard of education in the country. We're a team of young, dedicated professionals, tackling Pakistan's biggest educational crisis to date. Our goal is to rekindle a culture of curiosity, to make education so interesting that students are pulled to school, as opposed to coming due to a compulsion. Once we achieve that, we aim for a holistic, nourishing education, that truly prepares students to tackle the ever changing, unpredictable life in the 21st century.

Job Purpose

We are looking for optimistic and collaborative Senior Django Developers to join our web team and help us develop and maintain Taleemabad Learning App and LMS Using Django, Python and AWS. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements into the application; therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Writing reusable, testable, scalable, and efficient code
• Integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Test and debug programs
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Note:

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

The shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 8 working days of closure of position.

• Work experience as a Python ( Django) Developer
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages and JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Fair understanding of building RESTful APIs.
• Worked with Django application deployment on AWS, Heroku.
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)

Years of Experience

Django experience at least 2-3 years

AWS experience- at least 1-2 years

Job Rewards and Benefits