Django Developer

WANTED: A Django developer to join our co-operative digital team. Use your knowledge of technology and your developer skills to help amazing charities and nonprofits change the world through building websites and web apps.

If you are:Keen to make the world a better placeOrganised and self-motivatedEager to keep on learning and sharing skillsA great communicator

We are The Developer Society, a not-for-profit co-op filled with digital designers, developers and campaigners, working with big names like Choose Love, Church of England, Oxfam, Business Human Rights Resource Centre, Samaritans and many more. If you'd like to join our team and help us to deliver great work then we want to hear from you.

THE ROLE...

You will be a crucial part of our team, helping us to deliver our projects and have a big impact on the world.

There’s plenty of technical jargon in here, but simply put, we're looking for intelligent people who have an eagerness to learn new things, and the communication skills to be able to work effectively with our team and our partners.

For this particular role, we're looking for someone with proven Django experience. We're always looking for the right person over any specific laundry list of skills, but here's our wishlist. If you have some/all of these, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for the right person over any specific laundry list of skills but here's our wishlist. If you have some/all of these, we'd love to hear from you.

You should probably have some mix of these...A keenness to be working closely and collaboratively with frontend developers and designersKnowledge of Python and DjangoAn interest in Wagtail, our favourite CMS frameworkAn understanding of working with Git and using GitHubBeing able to review other peoples code to encourage cooperative learning and promote best practicesFollowing test driven development and passing unit testsProven experience

We also like talking to people who enjoy...Working in an agency environment (albeit a not for profit one!)Being able to work on projects for charities and non-profitsWriting Pythonic codeOptimising page speed for the right level of performanceCaring about their impact on society

Key Skills

• Backend
• Django
• Git
• Python