Django 5.x + DRF, done conventionally
Typed serializers, viewsets, throttling, pagination and JWT auth in the boring, conventional way that ships fast and scales — with OpenAPI docs generated from the code.
product engineering / specialist delivery
Python & Django API development.
Django and DRF APIs built for real-time field operations — location pings, delivery confirmations and settlement runs from thousands of mobile clients. Fast under burst load, cheap to scale, batteries included.
2015Building production software since
8+ yrsLongest active partnership
100%Source and production visibility
5.0Across 18 verified Clutch reviews
Scope
What this service covers.
We build Django REST Framework APIs for the systems that run operations in the field: last-mile delivery, logistics, microfinance collection, surveys — anywhere thousands of mobile clients hit the same endpoints and a lost confirmation costs real money. Django's conventions get you to production fast; the engineering is in making them absorb burst traffic without burning the database.
Real-time field-ops endpoints
Location pings, status updates and delivery confirmations from thousands of mobile clients, built to absorb burst traffic without hammering the database.
Background jobs at scale
Celery + Redis for the work off the request thread — settlement runs, SMS/WhatsApp dispatch, geocoding, route optimisation and reporting exports, with dead-letter queues for the failures.
Mobile-client-ready APIs
Offline-tolerant, paginated and retry-safe, so an agent's app on a bad connection never double-charges or loses a confirmation.
Reliable integration surfaces
Razorpay, Stripe, NPCI rails, partner APIs and SMS gateways — webhook reliability done properly with idempotency keys and dead-letter queues.
Legacy Django modernisation
Django 1.x/2.x codebases brought to current LTS — migrations rebased cleanly, deprecated patterns replaced, and the test suite restored before new work starts.
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A clear delivery process
From first decision to production.
The same senior team stays close to scope, architecture, build, launch and what comes next.
- 01
Scope & cost
We agree the outcome, users, integrations, budget and main technical risks before the work starts.
- 02
Architecture
We plan the data, interfaces and failure modes around the way the system needs to operate.
- 03
Build & review
You receive source access, a working environment and regular demonstrations throughout delivery.
- 04
Launch & support
We launch, document and monitor the work, then hand it over or continue as your engineering team.
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Common questions
Planning the work.
01When is Django the right backend, and when isn't it?+
Django earns its place on operations platforms with real concurrency and data volume — field agents, mobile fleets, settlement and reporting. For websocket-heavy realtime we will often point you at Node instead, and for a marketing or content site we will point you at a CMS. We say so rather than sell you capacity you do not need.
02Can you scale Django under real load?+
Yes. Burst-absorbing endpoints, Redis caching, read replicas where the load demands, and Celery moving anything slow off the request thread. Gunicorn behind nginx with a zero-downtime migration pattern, structured logging and Sentry so problems surface before your users report them.
03Can you take over an existing Django codebase?+
Yes — including EOL Django versions. We audit first, bring it to current LTS with migrations rebased cleanly, replace deprecated patterns, and restore the test suite before building anything new. You own all of it: source, infrastructure and integrations.
Start a project
Bring us the exact problem.
Book a 30-minute call with the senior team that will scope and lead the work.