Working Student – Python

At CampfireFM, we’ve made it our mission to build a podcast community platform. As podcast nerds ourselves, we believe that communities around podcasts deserve their own home – and we’re here to create it. For this mission, we’re looking for a dedicated working student.

If you see yourself in this position please contact us at recruiting@joincampfire.fm

Your tasks

• Maintain and expand our Python-based backend
• Support us in building our AI platform for analyzing and preparing podcast episodes
• Review and correct automatically generated transcripts for further AI training
• Analyze our platform’s performance and help us develop our product further
• Write and maintain Python tests for our platform (Unit, Integration, API)
• Work closely with our development teams (Native App development teams and SaaS/Typescript team) to implement new features in a test-driven way
• Support the analysis and quality assurance of podcast episodes
• Contribute to the development of internal tools and scripts

Your experience

• You’re a podcast nerd yourself and are well-versed in the German-speaking podcast landscape
• You speak perfect German and very good English
• You live in Berlin
• You have knowledge of Python and ideally have worked with pytest, unittest or similar
• You have experience with LLMs and Prompt Engineering
• Interest in web development (e.g., Django, REST-APIs) is a plus
• You are proficient with Git and basic development workflows
• You have excellent communication skills and show initiative in independently completing tasks
• Bonus: Experience with Docker or CI/CD is helpful but not required