diff --git a/backend/app/workers/celery_app.py b/backend/app/workers/celery_app.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ba5108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/app/workers/celery_app.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""
+Celery entry point. Re-exports celery_app from tasks so the worker
+can be started with: celery -A app.workers.celery_app worker
+"""
+from app.workers.tasks import celery_app
+
+__all__ = ["celery_app"]
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diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 18ce7f8..0b7b6a3 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ alembic==1.13.1
 pydantic==2.7.1
 pydantic-settings==2.2.1
 python-jose[cryptography]==3.3.0
-passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
+passlib==1.7.4
+bcrypt==4.0.1
 python-multipart==0.0.9
 httpx==0.27.0
 redis[hiredis]==5.0.4
@@ -20,4 +21,4 @@ polyline==2.0.2
 Pillow==10.3.0
 aiofiles==23.2.1
 python-dateutil==2.9.0
-pytz==2024.1
+pytz==2024.1
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