The Cruise Brothers is seeking a backend Django (Python) developer to help build and modernize CBAT, the company’s in-house platform. The role focuses on production backend work in Django with PostgreSQL, while supporting integrations across bookings and related business systems.
What You’ll Build
- Backend features spanning bookings, commissions, agent management, messaging, and reporting
- API endpoints and integrations with external travel systems, including cruise booking engines and vendor feeds
- Integrations with payment and SMS providers
- Support and extend a hook and automation platform where model events trigger hooks, and hooks drive LLM agents
Backend Ownership and Modernization Approach
You will modernize a mature codebase as an ongoing effort rather than a disruptive rewrite. The work includes improving structure (such as per-model folders), moving query logic onto QuerySets, standardizing around a single mutation primitive per operation, and using CI checks that prevent drift over time.
- Own tickets end to end: reproduce, fix, test, and ship
- Gradually grow ownership over a specific slice of the platform
Core Requirements
- 4+ years building production web applications with Python and Django, or comparable experience in a mature framework such as Rails, Laravel, Spring, or ASP.NET with a strong drive to move to Django
- Comfort working within a large, established codebase and navigating code you did not write
- Solid foundation in relational data modeling and PostgreSQL
- Enough front-end capability in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to complete your own features (a dedicated front-end developer exists, but work should not be blocked)
- Documentation-first approach before asking questions, and the ability to verify AI-generated code before shipping
Nice to Have
- Experience with payments, accounting systems, travel, telephony/SMS, or systems involving money stored in a database
Technologies
- Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Vue
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- QuerySets
- LLM agents
- Rails, Laravel, Spring, ASP.NET
Compensation
USD 115,000 per year.
Minimum experience: 4 years.
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) with a 6% company match
- Travel perks, as the company is a cruise business
How Team Development Works
- Much of the code is written in Claude Code sessions with automated conformity checks
- 30-way parallel testing, migration linting, and automated review on every pull request
- Platform knowledge documented in a system designed to get you productive within your first week
- Four developers with direct access to the CTO and leadership team
Location and Work Model
The role is based in Warwick, Rhode Island or Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (hybrid). You will start with a couple of days in the office per week, easing off as you establish yourself, with flexibility on which days.
The team is also open to fully remote candidates for a genuine Django expert.
The development team is in Rhode Island, and Palm Beach Gardens is home to the sales and marketing teams who use what you build daily.
