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Hire Python developers to turn scripts and ideas into production software

Python powers web apps, data pipelines, automation and most of today's AI work. Our senior Python developers build Django and FastAPI back ends, reliable data jobs and AI features, then ship them as tested, monitored services you own. We match you with a developer in 48 hours, with a two-week risk-free trial.

  • Django, FastAPI and Flask apps and APIs
  • Data pipelines, automation and AI integration
  • Typed, tested code in your repository

Overview

Why companies hire Python developers, and what good ones do differently

Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world because it is readable, has a library for almost everything and runs well on any server. The same language can power a Django web app, a FastAPI service for your mobile app, a nightly job that cleans sales data, a scraper that checks competitor prices and an AI feature that answers questions about your documents. For a growing company, that means one team and one skill set can cover a lot of ground.

Many Python projects start as a quick script on someone's laptop or a notebook a data analyst wrote. It works, so the business starts depending on it. Then it breaks when a column name changes, runs twice and sends duplicate emails, or nobody can remember which API key it uses. Turning that kind of code into a real service, with tests, logging, scheduling, error alerts and safe deployments, is a big part of what professional Python developers do.

The other big part is building new products. Django gives you an admin panel, user accounts, permissions and an ORM out of the box, which makes it a fast way to launch business software and SaaS products. FastAPI is the go-to choice for modern, typed APIs and anything that talks to AI models. Flask stays useful for small services. Choosing well, and knowing each framework's traps, saves months.

When you hire Python developers from Dware, you get senior engineers who write type-hinted, tested code, manage dependencies properly with tools like uv or Poetry and think about how the code will run in production, not just on their machine. They explain choices in plain English and work in your repository, so the result is software your team can understand and extend.

What we build

Python development services our team delivers

From customer-facing web apps to the quiet jobs that run your business at night, these are the Python projects we take on most.

  • Django web apps and SaaS products

    Full web applications with user accounts, roles, billing, dashboards and a customised Django admin your team can use from day one. We use Django REST Framework or Django Ninja when the app also needs an API for a React front end or a mobile app.

  • FastAPI and Flask APIs

    Fast, typed APIs built on FastAPI and Pydantic, with automatic OpenAPI docs your front-end team can use right away. For small services and existing codebases we work in Flask with the same standards for validation, tests and error handling.

  • Data pipelines and ETL

    Jobs that pull data from APIs, databases, spreadsheets and files, clean and validate it with pandas or Polars and load it into PostgreSQL, BigQuery or Snowflake. We schedule and monitor them with Airflow, Prefect or Dagster so you know when a run fails and why.

  • Automation and business scripts

    Scripts that replace hours of manual work: generating reports, syncing CRMs, processing invoices, renaming and converting files or sending scheduled emails. We package them properly, add logging and alerts and run them on a schedule in the cloud instead of on someone's laptop.

  • Web scraping and data collection

    Reliable scrapers with Scrapy, httpx and BeautifulSoup, or Playwright for sites that need a real browser. We respect robots.txt and site terms, throttle requests and build in checks so you notice when a page layout changes instead of collecting bad data silently.

  • AI and machine learning integration

    Chat assistants, document search with retrieval-augmented generation, summarisation, classification and data extraction using the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, open-source models from Hugging Face, and vector search with pgvector. We add evaluation tests, cost controls and fallbacks so the feature behaves well with real users.

  • Background jobs and task queues

    Slow or scheduled work runs in Celery, RQ or Dramatiq workers backed by Redis or RabbitMQ, with Celery Beat for recurring tasks. Retries are safe, long jobs report progress and failures land in an alert, not a log nobody reads.

  • Upgrades, rescues and code audits

    We upgrade old Python and Django versions, replace abandoned packages and add tests around fragile code. If you inherited a Python codebase, we audit it and give you a clear, prioritised list of what to fix first.

Our process

How our Python developers build your software, from script to production

Whether we start from a blank repository or a script that already runs your business, we follow the same steps. Each one has Python-specific checks that keep the project safe and predictable.

  1. 1

    Discovery and audit

    We begin with a call about your goals, users and data. If code exists, we run it ourselves, check the Python version, list every dependency and note hard-coded secrets, missing tests and anything tied to one person's machine. For data and AI projects we look at real samples of your data, because data quality decides more than any framework. You then get a free, fixed quote.

    What you get

    • Requirements summary
    • Code and data audit notes
    • Fixed quote and timeline
  2. 2

    Architecture and technical plan

    We choose the framework and tools for the job: Django for full apps with an admin, FastAPI for typed and async APIs, a task queue for slow work, and an orchestrator only if the pipelines need one. We design the database schema, define how data flows between systems and decide where the code will run. You get a short plan in plain English with the trade-offs explained.

    What you get

    • Architecture and data flow diagram
    • Database schema
    • Hosting plan
  3. 3

    Project setup with modern Python tooling

    We create the repository in your account with a pinned Python version, a lockfile managed by uv or Poetry and a clean src layout. Ruff handles linting and formatting, mypy or Pyright checks type hints and pre-commit runs them before every commit. Settings come from environment variables validated with pydantic-settings, and Docker Compose starts PostgreSQL and Redis locally in one command.

    What you get

    • Repository with CI
    • Reproducible dev environment
    • Coding standards in the README
  4. 4

    Building in short iterations

    We work in one or two-week iterations, shipping the most valuable feature or pipeline first. Database changes go through Django migrations or Alembic with SQLAlchemy 2.0, so every environment stays in sync. In async FastAPI code we keep blocking calls out of the event loop and use async database drivers where they help. Every pull request gets senior code review and you see progress on a staging environment each week.

    What you get

    • Working features on staging
    • Migrations for every schema change
    • Weekly progress update
  5. 5

    Testing and data validation

    We write tests with pytest, using pytest-django and factory_boy for Django apps and the FastAPI test client for APIs. Data pipelines get schema checks with Pandera or Great Expectations, so a missing or renamed column stops the run instead of loading bad data. For AI features we keep a set of real test questions and expected answers and run them on every change. Tests run in CI against a real database.

    What you get

    • Automated test suite
    • Data quality checks
    • AI evaluation set where relevant
  6. 6

    Security and performance review

    We check permissions on every view and endpoint, keep Django's CSRF and security middleware switched on and use the ORM or parameterised queries so SQL injection is off the table. Dependencies are scanned with pip-audit and the code with Bandit. We profile slow endpoints with django-debug-toolbar or py-spy, fix N+1 queries with select_related and prefetch_related, and add caching with Redis where it pays off.

    What you get

    • Security checklist results
    • Dependency scan report
    • Performance fixes
  7. 7

    Deployment and scheduling

    Web apps ship as Docker images running Gunicorn or Uvicorn workers on AWS, Google Cloud Run, Fly.io, Render or Heroku. Scheduled jobs run on Celery Beat, a pipeline orchestrator or cloud schedulers, never on a laptop. Deploys are automated from CI, migrations run before new code goes live, and Sentry and structured logs are in place before the first real user arrives.

    What you get

    • Automated deploy pipeline
    • Scheduled jobs in the cloud
    • Error tracking and alerts
  8. 8

    Handover and ongoing support

    After launch we monitor errors, job runs and response times and fix issues quickly. You get documentation covering setup, deployment, environment variables and how to rerun a failed job. Keep us on for new features, Python and Django upgrades and model or prompt updates, or hand over to your own team with a walkthrough.

    What you get

    • Documentation and runbooks
    • Handover session
    • Post-launch support

Want this process for your project? Tell us what you're building and get a free, fixed quote.

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Technical expertise

Python development know-how that keeps your systems reliable

Python makes it easy to get something working. These are the areas where experience decides whether it keeps working.

Choosing between Django, FastAPI and Flask

Django is the best fit when you need users, permissions, an admin panel and lots of database-backed screens. FastAPI shines for typed APIs, async workloads and AI services that wait on external models. Flask suits small, focused services. Mixing them is fine too: a Django app for the business side with a FastAPI service for a high-traffic or AI-heavy feature is a common, healthy setup.

Async Python done right

Async code only helps if nothing inside it blocks. A single synchronous HTTP call or database query inside an async FastAPI route stalls every other request on that worker. We use httpx and async drivers in async code, run blocking libraries in a thread pool and keep CPU-heavy work in background workers or separate processes.

Dependencies and reproducible builds

Python dependency problems are a classic source of works-on-my-machine bugs. We pin the Python version, lock every dependency with uv or Poetry and build the same Docker image for staging and production. We keep the dependency list short, check new packages before adding them and schedule regular upgrades so you never face a painful multi-year jump.

Data quality in pipelines

A pipeline that runs without errors but loads wrong numbers is worse than one that fails loudly. We validate inputs at every step, make jobs idempotent so a rerun never doubles your data and keep raw copies so we can reprocess history. For larger datasets we use Polars or DuckDB, which are much faster and lighter than plain pandas.

Production-ready AI features

Calling an AI model is easy; making the feature reliable is not. We use structured outputs validated with Pydantic, set timeouts and retries, cache repeated requests and log token usage so costs stay predictable. Retrieval-augmented generation is built on pgvector or a dedicated vector database, with evaluation tests so changes to prompts or models don't quietly make answers worse.

Skills and tools our Python developers use

Web frameworks and APIs

  • Python 3
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • Django Ninja
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Pydantic
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Alembic

Data and automation

  • pandas
  • Polars
  • DuckDB
  • Airflow
  • Prefect
  • Dagster
  • Scrapy
  • Playwright
  • httpx
  • BeautifulSoup

AI and machine learning

  • OpenAI API
  • Anthropic API
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • scikit-learn
  • PyTorch
  • pgvector

Queues, databases and storage

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Celery
  • RQ
  • RabbitMQ
  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Amazon S3

Quality, tooling and deployment

  • uv
  • Poetry
  • Ruff
  • mypy
  • pytest
  • Docker
  • Gunicorn
  • Uvicorn
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry

Why Dware

Why hire Python developers from Dware

Senior engineers, not script writers

Our Python developers have built and run production systems. They write code that is tested, typed and easy for the next person to pick up.

Web, data and AI in one team

The same developer can build your Django app, the pipeline that feeds it and the AI feature on top, so nothing gets lost between specialists.

Start fast, with no risk

We match you with a developer in 48 hours and the first two weeks are a risk-free trial. If the fit isn't right, we replace them or you walk away.

Reviewed, documented code you own

Every change gets senior code review. All code lives in your repository, you own the IP and we sign an NDA on request.

Flexible as you grow

Scale from one developer to a small team, or back down, month by month. You get daily updates and a weekly summary in plain English.

Ways to work with us

Ways to hire Python developers

Hire one developer, add a whole team, or hand us a fixed-scope project. Tell us what you need and we'll send a free, fixed quote, usually within one business day.

Dedicated developer

Most popular

A senior engineer who works only on your product, full-time or part-time.

  • Joins your Slack, standups and Git
  • Same developer every day
  • Scale up or down monthly

Team extension

Two or more developers, plus QA or a tech lead, added to your team.

  • Matched to your stack and time zone
  • One point of contact
  • Add or remove people any month

Fixed-scope project

A clear scope, timeline and fixed quote. Ideal for MVPs, apps and fixes.

  • Free, fixed quote before we start
  • Milestones you approve
  • Support after launch

FAQ

Hire Python developers: frequently asked questions

How fast can I hire a Python developer?

We usually introduce a senior Python developer within 48 hours of our first call. Before that, we ask about your project, your current code and the skills you need, such as Django, FastAPI, data engineering or AI. If you like the developer, they can start the same week. The first two weeks are a risk-free trial, and most clients see working code or a fixed script within the first one to two weeks.

What does it cost to hire Python developers?

Cost depends on scope and team size. The main factors are how many features or pipelines you need, how many systems we connect to, data volume, AI usage, security or compliance requirements and your deadline. Rescuing existing code adds an audit up front. Rather than quoting generic rates, we learn about your project on a free consultation and then send a free, fixed quote with a clear timeline, so you know exactly what you are getting.

Should I build my app with Django or FastAPI?

If you are building a full product with users, permissions, lots of database screens and a need for an internal admin panel, Django usually gets you there fastest. If you mainly need an API for a separate front end or mobile app, high concurrency or AI model calls, FastAPI is often the better fit. Many products use both. We look at your plans and team and recommend one with clear reasons, not personal preference.

Can you turn our existing scripts into a reliable system?

Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get. We take scripts or Jupyter notebooks that work but are fragile, then add proper structure, configuration, logging, tests and error alerts. We move secrets out of the code, schedule the jobs in the cloud and make them safe to rerun. The logic you trust stays the same, but it stops depending on one person or one laptop.

Can your Python developers add AI to our product?

Yes. We build AI features such as chat assistants, search over your documents, summaries, classification and data extraction from emails or PDFs. We use hosted models from OpenAI or Anthropic, or open-source models when privacy or cost calls for it. Just as important, we add evaluation tests, guardrails, timeouts and usage tracking so the feature is reliable and its running costs stay under control.

Is web scraping legal, and can you build scrapers for us?

We build scrapers for collecting public data such as prices, listings or public records. Whether a specific scraping project is allowed depends on the site's terms, the type of data and your local laws, so we review that with you before starting and avoid personal data unless you have a clear legal basis. We respect robots.txt, throttle requests and prefer official APIs whenever a site offers one.

Can you upgrade our old Django or Python version?

Yes. We first add tests around the most important flows, then upgrade step by step through supported Django releases, fixing deprecations at each stage instead of jumping several versions at once. We replace abandoned packages along the way and run the full test suite on staging before going live. You end up on supported versions that receive security fixes, with far less risk than a big-bang rewrite.

Is Python fast enough for a busy web app?

For most web apps, yes. Large, high-traffic platforms run on Django and other Python frameworks. Speed problems almost always come from database queries, missing caching or slow work done inside a request, all of which we fix. For CPU-heavy tasks we use background workers, optimised libraries such as NumPy or Polars, or a small service in another language if it is truly needed.

Do I own the code your Python developers write?

Yes, completely. We work in your Git repository and cloud accounts from the first day, so there is nothing to transfer at the end. You own all code and intellectual property, and we are happy to sign an NDA before you share anything sensitive. We also write documentation as we go, so your own developers or a future team can take over smoothly.

Tell us about your Python project

Whether it's a new Django app, a fragile script or an AI feature, we'd like to hear about it. Book a free consultation and we'll match you with a senior Python developer and send a free, fixed quote.

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