🚀 Lead Backend Engineer – Python (Aarhus HQ, Onsite)

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

🚀 Lead Backend Engineer – Python (Aarhus HQ, Onsite)

Location: Aarhus, Denmark (Onsite, HQ)

Employment: Full-time

Salary: Competitive + stock options available


About WasteHero

At WasteHero, we’re on a mission to revolutionize municipal waste management with cutting-edge, cloud-native software. Our SaaS platform helps cities and private operators optimize routes, automate billing, ensure compliance, and build greener communities.

We already work with municipalities and waste companies across Europe and the Middle East -and we’re just getting started. 

Backed by institutional investors and public funding, we’re a mission-driven scaleup with strong product-market fit. Our HQ in Aarhus is where product and engineering sit at the heart of the business.


Why This Role is Different

This is not just another backend role — this is a mission-critical leadership hire at a turning point for WasteHero.

Our product is undergoing a core redesign to make onboarding, integrations, and migrations faster and simpler. This is your chance to take the technical lead on a high-impact transformation, working closely with our CEO, product leads, and engineers in Aarhus to solve complex problems in hours, not days.


The Role

As Lead Backend Engineer, you will:

  • Own the architecture and development of our Python/Django + FastAPI services

  • Lead by example, mentoring developers and enforcing best practices in code quality, security, and maintainability

  • Redesign critical systems to make customer onboarding <2 months (currently 6+)

  • Collaborate closely with product, DevOps, and frontend teams to ship improvements fast

  • Drive architectural decisions for performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance


Our Tech Stack

  • Backend: Python 3, Django, FastAPI

  • Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery

  • APIs: GraphQL (Graphene), REST

  • Infra: Docker, gunicorn, Bitbucket Pipelines (CI/CD)

  • Hosting: Hetzner (Germany & Finland) – private networking & load balancing


You Bring

  • 5+ years backend development experience (Python/Django preferred)

  • Proven track record of building and scaling production systems

  • Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)

  • Confidence in Docker, CI/CD, and modern dev pipelines

  • Leadership skills — mentoring, architectural calls, guiding teams

  • Pragmatic mindset focused on security, performance, and clean design

  • Bonus: FastAPI, GraphQL, SaaS platforms, public sector software experience


Why Join Us Now?

  • High-impact leadership role – your work directly shapes WasteHero’s product evolution

  • Onsite collaboration – work daily with decision-makers for rapid iteration

  • Ownership – real autonomy, not just tickets in a backlog

  • Equity potential – grow with us as we scale internationally

  • Purpose-driven mission – use your skills to drive real-world environmental change


📍 Must be able to work onsite from our Aarhus HQ. Relocation support can be discussed.


 📬 Apply directly on Thehub

For more information or questions please contact us at hmansour@wastehero.io or phone number 60515534

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Near public transit
Near public transit

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Skill development
Skill development

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Working at
WasteHero

90% of the world’s waste is collected at the wrong time. At WasteHero, we help cities and businesses reduce their CO2 emissions and collection costs by as much as 50% by monitoring the fill level in containers in real-time so we can dispatch collections at just the right time. We are a fast-growing and ambitious scale-up with a solution touching customers in 50+ countries and are backed by Silicon Valley investors. We are determined to be a world-leading provider of the most sustainable and cost-efficient solution for modern waste management software 🚀 Are you ready to join our mission to redefine the category for modern-day waste management software to save the world? 🍀

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