Hire Django Developers
Django gives you an ORM, migrations, authentication and an admin site before you have written a line of business logic. Used well, that saves months. Used carelessly, it produces views that run two hundred queries and migrations nobody dares to touch. The difference is the developer.
Our Django engineers work as members of your team. They take tickets from your tracker, push to your repository and speak with you directly. PWTECH employs them, equips them and provides cover when needed.
Django work our engineers take on
The framework covers a wide range, from a content site to the back end of a mobile app. These are the tasks it is asked to do most.
REST APIs with Django REST Framework
Serializers, viewsets, permissions, throttling and pagination. We keep serializers thin, avoid nested writes that hide database work, and generate the schema so front-end developers have something accurate to code against.
Admin customisation
The built-in admin becomes a usable back office with list filters, bulk actions, inline editing and read-only audit fields. When the requirements outgrow it, we say so and build dedicated screens.
Background tasks
Celery workers with Redis or RabbitMQ for email, imports and report generation. Tasks receive record IDs instead of whole objects, have time limits, and are written so that a retry does no harm.
Query and ORM optimisation
select_related and prefetch_related where loops trigger extra queries, only() and values() for large lists, database indexes declared in the model, and annotations that push arithmetic into SQL.
Migrations on live databases
Adding a non-null column or an index to a large table can lock it. We split such changes into safe stages, squash long migration histories, and repair projects where migration files and the real schema have drifted apart.
Django and Python upgrades
Moving from an unsupported release to a current one, usually by way of each long-term support version. Deprecation warnings are turned into errors in the test run so nothing is missed.
What sits beside Django in a real project
Django rarely runs alone. A production project also needs an application server, a task queue, a database and a way to test all of it.
- Framework add-ons
- Django REST FrameworkDjango NinjaChannelsdjango-allauthdjango-filter
- Content and commerce
- Wagtaildjango CMSSaleor
- Tasks and caching
- CeleryRedisRabbitMQCelery Beat
- Databases
- PostgreSQLMySQLSQLite for testsPostGIS
- Testing and linting
- pytest-djangofactory_boyRuffmypyDjango Debug Toolbar
- Serving
- GunicornUvicornNginxWhiteNoiseDockerSentry
Three levels, three kinds of Django ticket
A quick way to judge the level you need is to look at who will decide the data model. If that is already decided, a less senior developer can do good work.
Junior
Adds models, forms, templates and admin registrations by following patterns that already exist in the project. Writes unit tests for the code they add. Needs guidance on anything involving migrations of live data.
Choose when: tickets are small and specific, and an experienced developer is available to review.
Mid-level
Takes a feature from model to deployed endpoint, including the migration, the Celery task and the tests. Spots an inefficient queryset without being told and knows how to read the SQL Django generates.
Choose when: you have a working product and a prioritised list of improvements.
Senior
Decides how apps are divided, when to use async views, how to change a schema without downtime, and what should not be in Django at all. Able to inherit an undocumented project and produce a clear map of it.
Choose when: you are starting a new product, scaling an existing one, or have lost the people who built it.
Getting a Django developer onto your project
Write to us about the project
Include the Django and Python versions, the database, and how the site is deployed. A requirements file or pyproject.toml is a helpful attachment.
Talk to the engineer we suggest
We introduce a single developer by name. You hold the conversation and make the decision. A second candidate is offered if the first is not suitable.
Try a limited piece of work
Pick something that matters but has clear edges: one endpoint, one admin screen, one slow view. It shows you the quality of code and communication.
Continue week by week
Work is logged in the tools you already use. Every week brings a short report of what was delivered and what is held up. There is a single invoice each month.
Django developer pricing
Our rates are published. Pick the role and move the sliders for an indicative budget.
Rate card
| Role | Hourly | Monthly* |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend / WordPress | AED 110 | AED 17,600 |
| Backend / API | AED 118 | AED 18,880 |
| Full-stack | AED 129 | AED 20,640 |
| Mobile (React Native / Flutter) | AED 129 | AED 20,640 |
| DevOps / Cloud | AED 147 | AED 23,520 |
| AI / Automation engineer | AED 165 | AED 26,400 |
| QA / Test engineer | AED 92 | AED 14,720 |
| UI / UX design | AED 103 | AED 16,480 |
*160 hrs/month full-time. Rates are indicative for planning, in UAE dirhams (converted from our US-dollar rates at the fixed peg of 3.6725), before VAT where applicable, and depend on seniority, contract length and timezone overlap. Longer engagements and multi-role teams are discounted — ask.
Should you hire a Django developer this way?
We are a good choice when
- You have a Django product with regular releases and a growing backlog.
- You need a Python back end for a mobile or React front end that another team is building.
- You prefer to manage the developer yourself and see every commit.
- Your agency sells Django projects and needs delivery capacity it can rely on month after month.
Look elsewhere when
- You have one isolated bug and no further work planned.
- The role requires physical presence at your site.
- You want a total cost agreed up front for a product that has not been specified.
- Nobody on your side has time to answer questions. A remote developer still needs decisions from you.
Answers on Django, hosting and handover
We are on Django 1.11 or 2.2 with Python 2 or an old Python 3. Can that be rescued?
Yes. The Python upgrade and the Django upgrade are planned together, since each Django release supports only certain Python versions. We move through the long-term support releases in order and test at each one.
Should new code use async views?
Only where it helps. Async suits endpoints that wait on many external services or hold connections open. For ordinary database-backed pages the synchronous path is simpler and performs well. Mixing the two carelessly causes more problems than it solves.
Django REST Framework or Django Ninja?
DRF has the larger ecosystem and is the safe choice for an existing project that already uses it. Django Ninja is lighter, uses type hints and Pydantic, and produces OpenAPI documentation with less effort. We do not switch a working project without a reason.
Can you deploy to our cloud account?
Yes, using your account and your credentials, which remain under your control. Typical setups are containers behind Nginx with Gunicorn, or a managed platform. Static files, media storage and database backups are configured as part of the same job.
Who does the finished code belong to?
To you. It is committed to your repository as it is written. The agreement signed at the start records ownership and confidentiality.
What if the assigned developer becomes unavailable?
PWTECH arranges another engineer, and you approve that person before they start. Documentation and commit history kept in your repository make the change-over manageable.
Start with a short note about the project
Tell us what the Django application does, which versions it runs on, and the first task on your list. You will hear back within one business day.