Junior Fullstack Engineer (Python/Django, English)

Welcome to SMG Vietnam!SMG Swiss Marketplace Group simplifies lives with innovative online marketplaces in Automotive, Real Estate, General Marketplaces, and Finance & Insurance. As SMG’s innovation hub, SMG Vietnam develops cutting-edge solutions in a collaborative, empowering environment. Recognized among the 2023 Asia & Vietnam Best Workplaces, we attract top digital talent to create exceptional user experiences for Switzerland. Guided by our core values—Better Together, Aim High, and Act Responsibly—we drive innovation and meaningful change. This job refers to our Real Estate brands, Homegate and Immoscout24, the largest real estate portals in Switzerland, with more than 15 million visits per month and more than 100,000 listings. We provide all users looking for a property with a transparent overview of the entire range of listings without them having to tediously visit different platforms. In addition to great products such as the mortgage or price calculator, we also offer editorial articles on topics such as housing and financing. About the roleJoin us in this exciting role as a Junior Full-Stack Engineer (Python/Django) in our Ho Chi Minh City office and help us build the future of the Swiss real estate market by contributing to our cutting-edge, cloud-based and on-prem technology stack. You will get to collaborate and access the wealth of knowledge and experience from a community of amazing engineers who come from all parts of the globe and are ready to share their expertise and aid you in your path to fulfilling your potential. About the position You'll join a team working on a Swiss online real estate platform dedicated to simplifying apartment rentals. The platform's core function is to digitally connect tenants with landlords and property managers, streamlining the entire process from initial listings and managing viewing appointments all the way through to the submission of digital applications. Your work will contribute to making the rental process more efficient for all parties involved.You will help design, implement, test and deliver new features that bring value to our users.You will write clean, easily maintainable, modular code which will run in both a serverless and a server-based environment.You will learn how to use Django in our on-premise environment and how to develop features that integrate with other systems running on AWS. You will also learn about CI/CD practices for developing and deploying our features to production.You will own your own services and be responsible end-to-end for everything from development and testing to delivery and monitoring.You will collaborate with other engineering teams as well as your existing team to ensure the stability of our architecture.You will challenge the status quo and continuously aim to improve the architecture, code, and tools to ensure the delivery of high-quality software. Our tech stackOur frontend services utilize a variety of technologies, including Vue.js and React, with Typescript as the language of choice. These services consist of a mix of client-side, server-side, pre-rendered, and hybrid web apps. Additionally, some services leverage Django templates for the frontend, often mixed with React written in Typescript.Our backend architecture utilizes a combination of technologies. We have services built with Node.js and Typescript, following a serverless and microservices pattern in AWS, leveraging services like Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and S3. Additionally, we have services built with Python and the Django Framework, running as a modularized monolithic architecture in Docker containers on on-premise servers.Our monitoring is done mainly through Datadog and Sentry.Our codebase and services are documented using Backstage.