ABOUT THE PROJECT
You will join a project focused on packaging and distribution processes within the seed industry. It combines deep agricultural-seed expertise with strong capabilities in agile software development.
You will help build the Pre-foundation DB, a full-stack web application for the agricultural seed breeding division to manage seed inventory, quality testing, field operations, and shipping logistics. The platform replaces manual spreadsheet-based workflows with a customizable ERP-like system designed specifically for tracking seeds from the field through processing and ultimately to customer delivery.
EMPLOYEE PERKS
- An opportunity to cooperate with stable partners that carry an admirable reputation.
- A flexible schedule and working hours. We respect your time.
- Freedom to pick your workspace. You can always choose between working remotely, on-site, or a hybrid of the two.
- The ability to bring your own ideas to the table and influence how things are done.
- Education support for our people, based on their requirements. This includes various materials, courses and much more.
- Enjoy working with agile methodology
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Your day-to-day work will involve a mix of backend, frontend, and data-centric tasks, including:
- Feature development
- Implementing new API endpoints and backend logic
- Building new UI screens in React/MUI
- Enhancing workflows and improving overall user experience
- Bug fixing and maintenance
- Addressing data-related edge cases and UI behavior issues¡
- Ensuring data consistency across complex relational models
Data Work
- Performing data migrations (schema updates, new fields, refactors)
- Integrating data from legacy MSSQL SQL Server systems
- Handling Excel imports/exports using pandas/openpyxl
- Implementing validation logic and error reporting for user-uploaded files
- Generating reports such as Excel exports, PDF shipping labels, barcodes, and automated emails
Testing & Quality Assurance
- Writing unit and integration tests using Django’s test framework
- Extending internal test utilities (e.g., PFDTestCase)
- Ensuring strong test coverage for new features and data workflows
Notifications & Business logic
- Implementing email notifications for key operational events (production state changes, discard forms, crop plan updates, problem reports, user inactivity, etc.)
- Adding and refining business-rule validations on API inputs, forms, and imports
Performance & Optimization
- Optimizing complex queries involving heavily related PostgreSQL data models
- Supporting database view maintenance for reporting
- Improving system performance and reliability in coordination with DevOps and SRE teams
YOUR KEY SKILLS
- Django + Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL (extensive use of views for reporting)
- Celery + Redis for background tasks
- Auth0 for authentication and authorization
- AWS for infrastructure
- Docker for containerization
Frontend
- React
- TypeScript
- Material-UI (MUI)
- Auth0
Microservices
- User Auth Service – Django-based microservice integrating with Auth0 Management API (user provisioning, roles, permissions)
APPRECIATED SKILLS:
DevOps & Monitoring
- CircleCI, GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- Express Gateway
- AWS
- Sentry for error/performance monitoring
- Prometheus, Grafana, Loki for infrastructure monitoring and logging
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you see yourself in this position, but you’re missing a bit of experience with a certain technology or require more improvement with a specific skill, please don’t worry. Instead, feel free to reach out to us, as we strongly encourage people to express their opinions honestly and show what they’ve got to offer. Giving everyone an equal opportunity for personal development and success is what HOTOVO is all about.
WHO WE ARE
We are a rather non-conventional, quite progressive, and pretty cool (even if we say so ourselves) software house with HQ in Košice, Slovakia.
We specialize in custom software development of mobile, web and desktop apps, system integration and automation, a long-term-partnership form of outsourcing and the development of startups. Our services cover the entire software development lifecycle, including support and maintenance.
HOTOVO is led by a team of specialists with 15+ years of experience. Established in 2010, we’ve since grown from zero to 150+ people – without any foreign capital or investment, and without any state support and subsidies… which means there’s no-one out there dictating what we can and can’t do 😊.
We work with top-notch companies across the globe which enables us to attract the best talent (and the coolest people 😎) in town. We’re a proven long-term partner of global industry leaders like MuleSoft, Protecht, Oracle, RedHat, Seismic, Salesforce and Atlassian, as well as numerous creative young startups.
Our primary markets are the USA, UK and Australia. However, we have clients in many countries across the world. We’re a globally distributed team with our HQ in Košice, Slovakia, which means we can cover different time zones and be even closer to our clients. We love what we do, and we love the team we've created to do it with. Developing software solutions (and helping our clients succeed!) is a joy and an art all in one, and that is how we approach it.