Backend Python Developer (Django + Data Pipelines)

MenuWise is a fast-growing food-tech SaaS platform used by professional chefs and foodservice operators across Australia and New Zealand. We are rebuilding our infrastructure and datasets from the ground up and need a strong backend engineer who likes difficult problems, clean architecture, and real-world impact.

What You Will Work On

• Build and maintain a

  Django Admin

  interface used internally by our data and operations team • Develop and maintain

  web scrapers

  (Scrapy/Playwright/Requests) for ingredient, nutrition and supplier data • Build

  data pipelines

  for ingestion, validation, enrichment and scheduled updates • Design algorithms to

  benchmark ingredient prices

  across multiple sources • Implement logic to

  validate nutrition data

  and detect inconsistencies • Work with APIs, crawling, parsing, and structured data at scale • Improve code quality, reliability, and automation across the backend • Collaborate with our ML team to prepare clean, structured datasets

Required Skills

• 3 years backend experience with

  Python

  • Strong with

  Django + Django Admin

  • Experience with

  web scraping frameworks

  (Scrapy, Playwright, Requests) • Knowledge of

  data ingestion, ETL pipelines, scheduling

  • Solid understanding of

  algorithms

  and problem-solving • Comfortable with

  PostgreSQL

  , MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Git • Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-structured code

Bonus Skills (Good to Have)

• Experience with

  airflow

  ,

  Celery

  , or other schedulers • Familiarity with

  nutrition datasets

  , pricing data, or ecommerce crawling • Experience working with sensitive or structured scientific data • Understanding of

  async Python

  • Experience in a

  SaaS

  environment

Why Join MenuWise

• Work on a

  unique data platform

  with some of the richest culinary datasets in the world • Opportunity to shape the backend and own critical systems • Modern stack, autonomy, and fast decision cycles • Real impact: your work will power menu costing, nutrition, suppliers, and price intelligence used by Professional Chefs every day • Competitive salary for top Indian backend talent • Career-defining opportunity with a product about to scale globally