Hire Django developers expertly trained on AI and product thinking
Hire dedicated Django developers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time tech CEO who has shipped Python in production across three companies. We have placed hundreds of senior Django, Django REST Framework, and Celery engineers in the Philippines. Every engineer on the bench is pre-vetted, full-time, and ready to start in 7 days.
from rest_framework import viewsets, permissions
from .models import Order
from .serializers import OrderSerializer
class OrderViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
queryset = Order.objects.select_related(
"customer", "warehouse"
).prefetch_related("items")
serializer_class = OrderSerializer
permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]Django teams trusted by enterprises, scale-ups, and Fortune 500s
Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
I have been hiring Python and Django engineers for fifteen years
I started my career as a developer in the early 2000s, and Python has been part of every engineering org I have built since. At Stackify, the APM and logging platform I founded, we built and supported a Python agent that instrumented production Django applications for thousands of engineering teams. The pattern I saw over and over with that data in front of me: most Django performance problems are ORM mistakes, not the framework being slow. I have hired and managed Python and Django developers across four companies, and I know what separates a real Django engineer from someone who scaffolded a tutorial project over the weekend.
Full Scale is a Django development company built around senior Filipino developers and the Product Driven framework. We have hired hundreds of Python engineers in the Philippines over the years, we test them on real architecture problems rather than syntax quizzes, and we have built dedicated Django teams for fast growing SaaS companies and enterprise clients. If you are serious about hiring offshore Django developers who can actually build things, you are in the right place.
AI-powered Django engineers, trained on Product Driven principles
Most Django teams adopting AI are shipping more code without shipping better software. The slop volume climbs, production bugs follow, and engineers whose only skill is typing faster end up costing more in cleanup than they save in keystrokes.
Full Scale Django developers are trained on something different: the Product Driven approach from Matt's book, combined with the full modern AI toolkit (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor). They think first, type second, and use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't add value. That combination is rare, and it is what you should be looking for when you hire Django developers in 2026. When the Django app needs AI features wrapped around it, you can also hire dedicated AI developers from the same bench.
Product Driven engineering
Our engineers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is developers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a ticket should exist before writing it, and own the outcome of what ships. They are not order takers.
Read Product Driven, the bookAI as a thinking partner
Every Django engineer on our bench works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor every day. They use AI to explore options, scaffold the boring parts, generate test suites, and review their own pull requests before a human ever sees them. Judgment stays with the engineer, the grunt work moves to the machine.
A Django engineer worth hiring reasons about the data model and the ORM before they reach for Copilot, and they use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't matter. That's who we hire and train at Full Scale.
Dedicated Django developers, starting at $35 an hour
When you hire Django developers through Full Scale, that rate covers a senior engineer in the Philippines working full-time on your project, with payroll, benefits, HR, and equipment all handled by us. The same role hired locally in the US costs $150K to $195K a year. The math is what drives most of our clients to call.
- Full-time, dedicated Django engineer
- Pre-vetted by senior Django reviewers
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Payroll, HR, equipment, benefits handled by us
- US-based account manager you can escalate to
- 30-day replacement guarantee if it isn't a fit
Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 four years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been doing this since 2018, and pricing isn't the only reason clients stay with our Django development company, it's the easiest reason to call.
The reason offshore Django works here
You can also hire dedicated developers in the Philippines across every other stack we staff, with the same vetting bar, retention numbers, and engagement model that Django clients get.
English-fluent by default
The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. Standups, code reviews, and customer calls work the way they do with any US team member.
Real time-zone overlap
Most of our Django engineers work US business hours with 4-8 hours of real-time overlap with East and West Coast teams, so decisions happen live during shared hours rather than crawling through 24-hour async handoffs.
Deep engineering talent pool
Cebu and Manila produce tens of thousands of CS and IT graduates a year. Python is the most-taught language at the country's top engineering programs, and Django is the framework most CS programs use when they want students to ship a real web app, which feeds straight into the bench.
Cultural alignment with US teams
Filipino engineers grow up on US business norms, US TV, and US tech culture, so agile rituals, direct feedback, and collaborative workflows feel familiar from day one. These teams integrate fast rather than needing constant management.
Writing Django views is not the same as knowing Django
Anyone who finished the tutorial can scaffold a Django project. Building a production Django system that holds up under real traffic requires a different bench entirely. When you hire Django developers offshore, this is the gap that decides whether the project ships. Here is what we test for, and what most offshore staffing companies skip.
Architecture knowledge, not just settings.py
Junior developers ship views. Senior Django engineers reason about app boundaries, service layers vs fat models, signal usage, migration risk, and when a class-based view earns its complexity over a function-based one.
Django ORM that doesn't melt your database
We test for the N+1 query problem, when to use select_related and prefetch_related, when to drop into raw SQL or Django's QuerySet.extra, and how to read an EXPLAIN ANALYZE plan. Bad ORM code is the single most common Django performance bug we see in production.
Celery and async tasks done correctly
Celery, Django Channels, and the new async views all live or die on knowing when to use them. We screen for engineers who can reason about idempotency, retry storms, dead-letter queues, and what happens when a task runs twice. The race condition that only shows up at production scale is the one we test for.
Django on AWS, GCP, and containers
Real Django deployment work covers gunicorn and uvicorn tuning, static and media file handling on S3, ECS or Cloud Run rollouts, and the IAM scoping that keeps your database credentials out of the wrong hands. The bench is stocked with engineers who can read a CloudWatch log and trace a 502 back to the worker that crashed.
Security and authentication done right
Real Django security work covers the built-in auth system, custom user models, OAuth and SAML flows, JWT handling in DRF, CSRF and clickjacking defenses, and the OWASP basics. It isn't a checklist exercise, so we test for engineers who understand the actual attack surface of a Django application.
Production debugging skills
A senior Django engineer should be able to read a Sentry trace, profile a slow request with django-debug-toolbar or Silk, and walk through a memory issue with tracemalloc. Most offshore Django developers have never opened these tools.
Hire dedicated Django developers for the work that actually matters
Most Django hiring conversations skip past the actual project. What kind of Django work do you need done? A greenfield SaaS build on Django, a DRF API on top of an existing model layer, an admin overhaul, a Celery pipeline that keeps failing, an ORM rewrite of the slow page that has been open for six months? As a Django development company that bills for engineering hours rather than fixed-bid projects, our developers ship across all of it. Here are the Django development services we get hired for most often.
Custom Django web application development
Custom Django development means greenfield builds on modern Django 5.x using service layers, typed Python, custom user models, and a sane app boundary from day one. We start with a real domain model rather than a CRUD scaffold, so the resulting codebase survives the first 18 months without a rewrite.
Read our Python outsourcing guideMulti-tenant SaaS on Django
Django is the workhorse of B2B SaaS, and we have shipped it at every scale. Multi-tenant data isolation, role-based access, audit logging, subscription billing on Stripe, white-label theming, and the unglamorous admin tooling that enterprise customers ask for in month three. Our teams have done it before.
Hire Python developersDjango REST Framework API development
We build APIs with Django REST Framework: viewsets, serializers, permission classes, throttling, OpenAPI schema generation, and the integration testing that keeps consumers from breaking when you change a field. Third-party integrations get circuit breakers, real retry logic, and idempotency keys.
Hire API developersDjango on AWS, GCP, and Azure
We deploy Django to ECS, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes, with Terraform or Pulumi for infrastructure, S3 or GCS for static and media files, RDS or Cloud SQL for the database, and structured observability for production debugging. That is the full cloud Django stack, with no "we got it running on Heroku" shortcuts.
Celery, Channels, and background workers
A lot of real Django work is asynchronous: Celery task queues, Django Channels for WebSockets, scheduled jobs, and the ETL glue that moves data between systems. Our engineers ship Celery worker pools that survive a Redis outage, and Channels deployments that actually scale past a single process.
Django performance and ORM debugging
Our Django performance work covers django-debug-toolbar and Silk for query profiling, py-spy for CPU traces, tracemalloc for memory issues, and the ORM rewrites that fix the slow page nobody could explain. These are skills most offshore Django shops have never developed, so hire us when the admin is timing out and nobody knows why.
Eight Django specializations, one staffing partner
Most Django teams need more than one role. Hire dedicated Django developers, senior DRF engineers, Wagtail specialists, and Django DevOps from a single vetted bench. When the Postgres layer behind Django gets serious, you can also hire dedicated database developers who own the schema, the indexes, and the migration work independently of the application code. Mix and match seniorities as the project requires. When the SaaS app needs a real design owner, hire dedicated UX designers from the same Philippines bench.
Backend Django Engineers
Senior backend devs handle the model layer, API logic, and business rules for your Django application. They work fluently in Django ORM, Django REST Framework, Celery, and PostgreSQL.
Full-Stack Django Developers
End-to-end engineers pair Django on the backend with React, Vue, or HTMX on the front. They ship features from the database to the UI without handoffs to a separate team.
Django REST Framework Specialists
Engineers in this specialization design DRF APIs the right way: viewsets, custom permissions, serializer composition, throttling, and OpenAPI contracts that the frontend team can actually rely on.
Cloud and DevOps Django Engineers
Cloud specialists own the Django deployment story end-to-end: ECS or Cloud Run, RDS, S3 for static and media, IAM, and the Terraform that ties it together. They write the CI pipeline too.
Django CMS and Wagtail Developers
When the project is a content platform rather than a SaaS app, these are the engineers you want. Wagtail page models, custom blocks, editorial workflows, and the CMS work that marketing teams actually use.
Performance and Security Engineers
When production gets weird, these are the engineers you call. They run django-debug-toolbar, Silk, py-spy, and tracemalloc investigations alongside OWASP reviews and Django auth audits.
Data and Pipeline Engineers
Data engineers ship Celery pipelines, Airflow DAGs, ETL workflows, and the SQL that makes the pipeline correct. They know when Django ORM is the right tool and when it is not.
Django QA and SDET
Our automation engineers write tests in pytest-django, Hypothesis, Playwright, and locust against Django services. They build the test pyramid you wish you had.
Django expertise tuned to your industry
As a Django development company that has been around for over a decade, we have placed dedicated Django developers into nearly every industry that runs production Django. Domain knowledge cuts onboarding time in half, so we match developers to projects where they have already shipped real code.
SaaS and Scale-ups
B2B SaaS on Django is our home turf, with engineers who have shipped multi-tenant Django, subscription billing on Stripe, role-based access, and white-label theming. They have worked on Django SaaS at every scale, from seed-stage to public companies.
From DRF APIs to Wagtail CMS and Celery worker pools
Whether you want to hire Django developers for a greenfield SaaS build, hire DRF engineers for a high-throughput API, or outsource Django development on a legacy monolith, the bench covers every layer of the modern Django stack. Pick what you need. We will match a Django programmer fluent in it.
Hire dedicated Django developers, two ways
Most clients start with a single dedicated Django developer and grow into a full team. Either way, you get full-time engineers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship code against your roadmap. Both options are staff augmentation at the core: dedicated, long-term engineers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side. See the full breakdown of how we hire dedicated Django developers across every engagement we staff. When the work spans both the Django backend and a React or HTMX frontend, you can hire experienced full stack developers from the same bench.
Dedicated developer
Full-time, exclusive, sits on your standups.
- Full-time Django engineer assigned only to your project
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Joins your standups, reports to your tech lead
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
How to hire a dedicated Django developer from Full Scale
When you hire Django developers through Full Scale, you skip the 3-6 week recruitment cycle and the cold sourcing entirely. Our bench of remote Django developers and Django programmers in the Philippines is already built and vetted, and every step below has a named owner on our side.
Discovery call
30 minutes with our team. We learn your stack, your roadmap, the seniority level you need, and whether you are on Django 5.x, an older LTS, Wagtail, or pairing Django with a separate frontend. We don't pitch on the call, we walk through what you actually need from a hire.
Engineer match
We pull 1-3 pre-vetted Django engineers from the bench whose skills, seniority, and prior project experience line up with what you described. You see their full profile and their actual project history.
Technical interview
You interview the candidates the way you would interview any senior hire: live coding, system design, ORM gotchas, and architectural reviews. Pass anyone you don't believe in.
Contract and onboarding
Sign once. We handle every contract, payroll, equipment, and HR detail in the Philippines so you don't have an offshore entity to manage. You just get a developer.
First commit
Your developer joins your standups, gets repo access, and ships code in their first week. Our delivery managers stay involved to make sure ramp-up doesn't stall.
Full Scale vs the other ways to hire Django developers
Every hiring path has trade-offs. Here is how a dedicated Django engineer from our Django development company compares against the alternatives most teams consider first when they want to hire Django developers.
| Feature | Full Scale | Freelancer / Upwork | Traditional offshore agency | US recruiter / FTE hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-vetted senior Django bench | ||||
| Time to first hire | 7 days | 1-3 days | 3-6 weeks | 6-12 weeks |
| Dedicated full-time, not shared | ||||
| Founder-led engineering org | ||||
| Sits on your standups, your tools | ||||
| Long-term retention | 93%+ | low | varies | varies |
| Replace within 30 days if it's not a fit | ||||
| Handles payroll, HR, equipment | ||||
| US-based account management | n/a | |||
| Typical fully-loaded cost vs US | ~40-50% | varies | ~50-65% | 100% |
Real Django engineers, named and vetted
A sample of the engineers we are currently staffing. You'll see real names and real backgrounds during your interview round.
Built and scaled multi-tenant SaaS platforms on Django for fintech and B2B clients. Strong in domain modeling, ORM optimization, and Celery task design.
Backend-to-frontend feature delivery on Django services and React SPAs. Has shipped end-to-end on three production B2B platforms.
Distributed systems specialist who has led cloud rebuilds of legacy Django monoliths, including a production migration for a high-traffic SaaS platform.
Builds CI/CD for Django teams. Containerization, IaC, blue-green deployments, observability with OpenTelemetry and structured logging.
API-first engineer who has shipped high-throughput DRF services for retail and travel. Comfortable trading the ORM for raw SQL when latency matters.
Builds out test pyramids and CI gates for Django teams. Strong on contract testing for DRF endpoints and property-based testing.
Engineer names are anonymized on this page. You'll see real candidates during your interview round.
The numbers behind a Django staffing partner that actually works
From the people we actually staff teams for
Full Scale's development team was pivotal in elevating our facility management software. Their expertise turned complex challenges into seamless functionalities, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
With Full Scale's developers, we transformed the commercial real estate landscape. Their team's proficiency in agile development and proactive communication accelerated our product release.
The team at Full Scale brought our vision to life with their development skills. They helped us navigate technical requirements with ease, resulting in a robust platform our users trust.
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Everything you wanted to know about hiring Django developers
Hire a dedicated Django developer who has actually built Django systems before
30-minute discovery call with the Django development company that supplies dedicated developers and custom Django development services from the Philippines. We'll learn what you're building, walk you through which dedicated Django developers, DRF engineers, Wagtail specialists, or full-stack engineers are on the bench, and you'll meet candidates within a week. We won't pressure you, and there's no sales pitch on the call.