Boosting Django Backend for Peak Performance
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JavaScript, Python, Django, HTML, Redis, Backend Development, DevOps, API Development, Microservices, Celery · Django Backend Performance & Reliability Sprint
Category: Backend Development / Site Reliability Budget: £1,050 GBP Hourly rate range (if hourly bids considered): $30/hr – $250/hr Project deadline: Monday, 12 October 2026
Description: Our production Django platform (using Celery, Redis, and WebSockets) needs a focused performance and reliability pass. We need an on-call-style engineer to profile slow endpoints, fix background job bottlenecks, and improve WebSocket connection stability under load. Backend-only engagement, no design or front-end work required.
Key requirements:
Strong Python/Django experience, including Celery and Redis Experience with WebSocket-based real-time systems Comfortable with performance profiling and load testing tools (e.g. Locust, k6) Able to work reactively within a short, defined window
Deliverables:
Performance audit report with identified bottlenecks Optimized code for the top-priority slow paths Before/after load test results
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