Full Stack Engineer

• Designing, building, and maintaining backend services in Python/Django and Django REST Framework.
• Evolving our API layer and backend domain models to support new product features.
• Improving scalability, performance, caching, and reliability across core systems.
• Ensuring secure coding practices, proper authentication/authorisation flows, and data integrity.
• Driving high engineering standards in testing, observability, architecture, and documentation., * Contributing to React front-end surfaces and supporting full-stack features where needed.
• Implementing UI components that integrate with backend APIs you build.
• Collaborating with design to ensure accessibility, usability, and performance.
• Helping shape front-end architecture for reliability and consistency.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Working closely with Product and Design to refine problems into clear technical plans.
• Leading spikes, technical discovery, and cross-team initiatives.
• Supporting peers through pairing, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Advocating for engineering excellence, platform improvements, and sustainable delivery.

• 4+ years of full stack or backend engineering experience in a product-focused environment.
• Deep expertise in Python, including production-grade systems, testing, and optimisation.
• Solid experience with Django, Django REST Framework, or similar backend frameworks.
• Significant experience designing and evolving REST APIs and integrating with external services.
• Confident using AI-powered engineering tools (Copilot, code review assistants, documentation helpers) to improve delivery, share knowledge, and maintain a high bar of engineering excellence
• Proficiency with React (or equivalent modern framework) for building maintainable UI components.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, caching, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability tools (GitHub Actions, Datadog, Sentry).
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems and lead technical decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with Next.js, SSR/SSG, and front-end performance optimisation.
• AWS
• Experience with feature flags, rollout strategies, and experimentation frameworks.
• Familiarity with improving platform-level concerns: security, permissions, architecture patterns.
• Experience integrating AI/ML APIs (e.g. GPT) or building automation tooling.

In addition to a competitive salary and bonus, we offer a range of benefits, including: Fully remote work Generous equity options Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership. This includes benefits like airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you X5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year Our team have an unlimited housesitting allowance, can work remotely from their sits, and are eligible to £500 per year towards travel costs £200 annually towards home office equipment Access to Spaces (co-working) Locations across the globe Monthly working from home stipend Macbook Find a rescue pet to join your family and we'll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home. We host a quarterly all-expenses paid meet-up and will fund team events (remote or in person) throughout the year We can cover costs of personal development resources, and have a regular time set aside for personal development Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve Weekly virtual yoga sessions Brighton Bikeshare Recruitment Referral Bonus If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example- she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc). At the heart of our team are a mix of diverse backgrounds. Here at TrustedHousesitters, we're committed to the equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process and selection. Offers of employment into TrustedHousesitters are based solely on individual merit, qualifications, and the person's professional suitability. Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision-making process.

TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. Here at TrustedHousesitters, we're on a mission to make travel work better for pets, for their people, and for the global community of animal lovers who look after them. We've got big plans on becoming the world's most-loved travel solution for pet people. We've built something pretty special: a trusted place where pet owners and sitters connect to keep pets happy at home while their humans explore the world. We've already grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. But we're only just getting started. Our goal? To grow to 1 million members and make TrustedHousesitters the world's most-loved travel solution for pet people. At the moment, a sit starts every two minutes somewhere on the planet. We want that to be every single minute and we know the only way we'll get there is with the right people in the right roles. The right people in the right roles will shape our future. So, here's the big question: Could that be you? More About The Role: We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to join the Scooby-Doo squad at TrustedHousesitters. In this role, you will primarily help evolve and scale our Python/Django backend services, APIs and data models, while also contributing to front-end work using React when needed. Our team builds the core surfaces and systems that power a global community of pet owners and sitters. You'll work across a modern, service-oriented architecture, collaborating with Product, Design, and other engineering squads to deliver reliable, secure, and high-impact features. This role is ideal for an engineer who loves backend engineering, system design, and scalability, but who can still contribute confidently across the stack when required. You'll thrive in an environment where: We prioritise quality and reliability We experiment, iterate, and learn quickly We communicate openly and work collaboratively We take ownership over the full lifecycle of the features we ship What you'll be doing * On our Backend