Work & Travel Guide is a young, fast-growing startup. We are building a product that helps people discover the world... smarter, simpler, and radically better than anything available today.
But this is about more than features.
We are building the **infrastructure for freedom.**

For people who do not want to travel someday, but now.
You will join at a stage where your decisions will make a real difference:
**Maximum impact:** You will work on core systems across backend, frontend, architecture, and deployments - the systems that support both the product and the company.
**Fast-growing responsibility:** If you deliver, your scope will grow quickly. You can move from owning individual components to leading architecture, owning processes, and eventually helping build a team. With enough commitment, your path can go very far.
You will work closely with the CTO. Short communication lines, fast decisions, and real technical leadership.
## Aufgaben
**Backend & APIs - Django (main focus)**
* Build and continuously improve backend systems and APIs in Django.
* Take ownership of architecture decisions around scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
**Frontend - React (experience with any other frontend technology is fine)**
* Build features in the React frontend, including UI, state management, and backend integration.
* Improve performance and developer experience.
* Design clean interfaces between frontend and backend.
**Engineering Excellence**
* Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
* Consistently apply clean code, design patterns, and strong system design principles.
* Refactor larger parts of the codebase to improve long-term maintainability, using modern tools such as Claude Code.
* Systematically expand testing and QA, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing depending on the area.
**AI-supported Productivity**
* Actively use and improve AI-assisted development workflows to iterate faster, increase quality, and automate repetitive work.
## Qualifikation
* Strong experience in backend development. Some frontend experience in any framework is preferred.
* Excellent backend skills, especially with Django, APIs, and data models.
* Solid understanding of architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD, including build pipelines, tests, deployments, and release processes.
* Strong testing and QA practices.
* Familiarity with modern toolchains and workflows, including AI-assisted development.
**Bonus**
Experience with Go and/or Rust, or strong curiosity to learn them, as we plan to expand parts of the system in that direction over time.
## Benefits
* **100% remote option**, or work from our office in Frankfurt, Germany — whatever you prefer.
* **High autonomy and ownership**: you influence decisions and build end-to-end.
* **Direct collaboration with the CTO**: short feedback loops, fast decisions, and real technical leadership.
* **Your ideas matter**: small team, big impact, fast iteration.
* **Retreats and workations**: you are invited to come join us for workations in interesting and inspiring places all around the world regularly
* **Strong engineering culture**: clean architecture, code reviews, testing, and observability.
* **AI at the core**: modern AI tooling stacks, used only where they truly make sense.
* **Stock option program** for employees who stand out through exceptional talent and commitment.
We accept applications exclusively via email to **tech \[at\] workandtravelguide .org**