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Hire Django developers who keep models and data in step
Models, migrations, the admin and the APIs behind your product. A dedicated Django developer from Latin America who works your hours, changes the schema safely and follows the framework instead of fighting it.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a Django developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Django developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Django version, database, API layer and hosting come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Django stack we screen for
Core Django
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Models and the Django ORM
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Migrations on live data
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Django admin customization
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Forms, templates and class-based views
APIs
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Django REST Framework
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Django Ninja
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Authentication and permissions
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Serializers and validation
Data and background work
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PostgreSQL
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Celery with Redis
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Caching with Redis
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Django signals used sparingly
Testing and deployment
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pytest-django
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Gunicorn and Uvicorn
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Docker and CI pipelines
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Static and media files in cloud storage
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a Django developer
Knowing Python is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your Django app stays fast and safe to change as the data grows.
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ORM without surprises
Uses select_related, prefetch_related and annotations to avoid one query per row, and reads the SQL the ORM generates.
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Migrations on live data
Plans schema changes that do not lock busy tables, splits data migrations from schema ones and knows how to roll back.
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Django REST Framework
Serializers, viewsets, pagination and permissions that give the front end a consistent API without leaking data.
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Security the framework offers
Keeps CSRF protection, the ORM's parameterized queries and the auth system in place instead of working around them.
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The admin as a tool
Customizes the Django admin for internal teams with filters and actions, instead of building a separate back office.
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Background jobs
Moves slow work such as emails, exports and third-party calls to Celery or another queue, with retries and monitoring.
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Tests on models and views
Tests the business rules in models and the permissions on views, so an upgrade or a refactor does not break them quietly.
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AI output, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every generated query and migration before it runs.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Django developers
A Django hire lives or dies on how they handle the ORM, migrations and permissions, which is where Django apps get slow or unsafe. This guide covers what a Django developer does, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Django developer is the wrong hire.
What does a Django developer do?
Builds and maintains web applications on Django: the data models, the migrations that change them, the views and APIs your front end calls, the admin your internal team uses and the background jobs behind them.
Day to day that means shipping features, reviewing code, keeping Django and its packages up to date and fixing the slow pages and data issues that show up in production.
A Django specialist or a Python generalist?
Many Python developers have touched Django in a tutorial. Fewer have run a Django app in production, with real migrations on real data, a permission model and an upgrade path.
If your product is a Django application, hire the specialist and ask for production experience. If the work spans data pipelines and automation too, you may need a broader Python profile.
The ORM and query performance
The Django ORM makes it easy to write a loop that sends one query per row. It works in development and fails when the table grows.
Ask the candidate how they find and fix slow pages. You want to hear about query logging or a profiler, select_related and prefetch_related, indexes and a before and after.
Migrations, upgrades and data
Models and migrations drift from the real data over time, and every schema change on a large table becomes a careful operation. Deferred Django upgrades add to the risk.
A strong candidate can explain how they add a column or change a field on a busy table without downtime, and how they approach moving an app across Django versions.
What to test in a Django developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: a model, a migration and an API endpoint with permissions and a test. Read how they structure the model, handle validation and restrict access.
Then show them a view that runs a query per row and ask what they would change. A strong answer names the fix, checks the result and mentions a test.
Red flags in Django developer candidates
Queries in loops. If their interview task fetches related objects one row at a time, expect slow pages once your data grows.
Editing migrations by hand after they ran. Rewriting applied migrations or deleting them to make a problem go away leaves environments that no longer match.
Security switched off. Disabling CSRF or writing raw SQL with string formatting to get something working is a warning about the rest of the code.
Permissions as an afterthought. If access control only appears when you ask about it, data will leak between users.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through a query or migration they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say what SQL it runs, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Django developer?
When the app is small and stable and changes a few times a year, or when a hosted platform or no-code tool covers what you need. A full-time developer will not have enough to do.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a Django developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a Django developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the Django version, database and API layer you run, where the app is hosted, the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
What is the difference between a Django developer and a Python developer?
Do Django developers build APIs?
Can they upgrade our Django version?
How fast can a Django developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.