DTC pet nutrition platform with data-driven personalized care
Just Russel is a Belgian pet-tech DTC company (founded 2020) selling personalized nutrition and preventive care across Benelux and France. The tech stack—Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt, Looker—reveals a data-engineering-first approach: they're building scalable ETL pipelines and operational dashboards to extract signal from pet health data. Active hiring spans product, engineering, data, and marketing, with a near-term focus on content optimization and customer acquisition efficiency.
Just Russel builds personalized pet nutrition and preventive care products for direct consumers across Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and France. The company supports over 100,000 active customers and operates a proprietary algorithm layer to tailor nutrition recommendations as pets age and life circumstances change. Operations span product development, supply chain logistics, ambassador management, and marketing-driven customer acquisition. The organization is structured around core pain points: acquisition efficiency, content workflow optimization, and operational data visibility—reflected in their active roadmaps for CMS/onboarding flow, email/CRM optimization, and supply chain digitalization.
Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt Core, GCP infrastructure (Cloud Functions, Cloud Run), Looker for analytics, Jira and Confluence for project management, Figma for design, Zendesk for support, and Odoo for operations.
Just Russel supports more than 100,000 customers and their pets across Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and France.
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