Python (Django) Engineer — Core Platform Team

AI is part of how we work. Not a talking point, we use it every day to write, debug, and ship code.

You'll use tools like Claude Code alongside Python and Django to build the backend systems behind Zudello's product.

Open to all experience levels.

About Zudello

Zudello is a fast-growing Australian SaaS company helping mid-market and enterprise businesses eliminate manual finance operations.

We work with organisations that are still drowning in invoices, purchase orders, approvals, supplier emails, spreadsheets, and clunky finance processes. Our AI platform fixes that — automating the heavy manual work across procure-to-pay and order-to-cash, and integrating with ERPs like NetSuite, MYOB, Sage Intacct and SAP.

Customers like HUB24 and Storage King use Zudello to process tens of thousands of documents every month with minimal human touch.

We’re in growth mode, scaling fast, winning larger customers, and building something meaningful in a massive category.

The job

We are looking for a Python engineer to join our Core Platform team. You'd build and maintain the backend services, APIs, and shared libraries that the rest of the product depends on. Django, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ.

You'll work with product, engineering, and implementation teams. The work is practical: somebody needs a new API, a queue consumer breaks under load, a shared library needs a cleaner interface.

We use AI tools daily for code generation, debugging, test scaffolding, and exploring approaches. You're expected to use them too, and also expected to actually read what they produce.

What you'd do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Python/Django

• Use AI tools to move faster on implementation, refactoring, and testing, while owning what gets merged

• Work on core platform architecture (we care about things actually scaling, not just calling them "scalable")

• Write tests. AI can help find edge cases, but the tests need to be real

• Turn business requirements into backend systems other teams build on

• Debug production issues, fix bottlenecks, keep services reliable

• Write documentation that's actually useful six months later

• Collaborate across product, engineering, implementation, and consulting
  

What we're looking for

• Solid Python experience, ideally Django

• You've built REST APIs, background jobs, and backend systems in production

• Comfortable with AI coding tools, uncomfortable blindly trusting them

• Think about systems as a whole: how pieces connect, where things will break

• Notice edge cases before they become incidents

• Want to keep getting better, including picking up new tools and workflows

• Communicate clearly with engineers and non-engineers

What we offer

• AI tools are first-class: you'll use Claude and other models as part of your normal workflow

• Competitive pay

• Work on core systems, not peripheral features

• Office at Cathedral Square, Brisbane CBD

• A team that's collaborative and respects your time

No "perfect candidates"

If you read this and thought "I can do most of that but not all of it," apply anyway. We'd rather hear from someone with the right instincts and gaps we can help fill than wait around for a unicorn.