// US-based Python developers
Free project plan & cost estimate in 48 hours.
Senior Python developers, based in the US, working your hours
Backend services, data pipelines, automation, and AI features, built by engineers who join your standups, write clean reviewed code, and don't disappear overnight.
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- 100% U.S.-based, working your hours
- No brief or spec needed to get started
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// teams we've worked with
“NextGen scaled us from 2 to 7 dedicated engineers in under a quarter. Enterprise-grade capacity, zero agency drag.”
Sound familiar?
- Your Python backlog keeps growing and hiring full-time is taking months.
- An offshore team left you with code nobody on staff wants to touch.
- Time-zone gaps turn a one-day fix into a one-week back-and-forth.
- You need someone senior enough to make decisions, not just close tickets.
What our Python engineers build
Backend & APIs
Django, FastAPI, and Flask services with tests, typed code, and sensible deploys to AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Data pipelines
Ingestion, cleanup, and reporting pipelines with Airflow, Dagster, dbt, and your warehouse of choice.
AI features
Document extraction, search over your own data, and LLM features measured against real test sets.
How it works
- 01
Pick a time
Book a 30-minute project call directly in our calendar.
- 02
Talk through the problem
Tell us what needs building, what's stuck and what success looks like. No spec needed.
- 03
Your plan in 48 hours
Get your project plan, roadmap, cost and ROI estimates. The plan is yours to keep.
- 04
First 5 dev hours free
Agree the scope with our team. Decide whether to continue before any paid work begins.
Common questions
Will this turn into a sales pitch?
No. The call is about your project: what needs building, what's stuck, and whether we have the right engineers. If we're not a fit, we'll say so.
What do I get for free?
A project plan, roadmap, cost estimate and ROI estimate within 48 hours of your project call. Your first 5 development hours are free, too. We agree the scope and any paid work with you before proceeding.
Do I need a spec or brief?
No. Tell us the problem in plain words and we'll help shape the scope with you.
Are the engineers really in the U.S.?
Yes. Every engineer lives and works in the United States. No offshore hand-offs, and that's in the contract.
What our clients say
"NextGen scaled us from 2 to 7 dedicated engineers in under a quarter. Enterprise-grade capacity, zero agency drag."
"Their R&D tax credit workflow platform paid for itself in the first filing season."
"AI-native from day one. Our IRS transcript pipeline runs 24/7 without a human in the loop."
"Property tax appeals used to take weeks. Their comp analysis tooling turned it into hours."
"The AI intake agent handles our tier-1 patient calls with a hand-off cleaner than our old call center."
"POS, inventory, ordering — all unified. We finally have one source of truth across every location."
"The procurement platform paid for itself in the first quarter of use."
"They shipped our matching engine in 6 weeks. Our old team would've taken 6 months."
"Enterprise-grade delivery without the enterprise-agency price tag."
"Their team plugged into our sprint on day one. Zero ramp time."
"NextGen scaled us from 2 to 7 dedicated engineers in under a quarter. Enterprise-grade capacity, zero agency drag."
"Their R&D tax credit workflow platform paid for itself in the first filing season."
"AI-native from day one. Our IRS transcript pipeline runs 24/7 without a human in the loop."
"Property tax appeals used to take weeks. Their comp analysis tooling turned it into hours."
"The AI intake agent handles our tier-1 patient calls with a hand-off cleaner than our old call center."
"POS, inventory, ordering — all unified. We finally have one source of truth across every location."
"The procurement platform paid for itself in the first quarter of use."
"They shipped our matching engine in 6 weeks. Our old team would've taken 6 months."
"Enterprise-grade delivery without the enterprise-agency price tag."
"Their team plugged into our sprint on day one. Zero ramp time."
NextGen Coding Company offers US-based Python developers for web applications, APIs, data pipelines, and background processing. Define the role around your stack: Django 5.2 LTS for an established application, FastAPI with Pydantic v2 for typed APIs, or pandas and Apache Airflow for scheduled data work. Common priorities include unreliable Celery jobs, slow database access, dependency upgrades, and tests that miss production failures.
A Python engagement should begin with the runtime version, dependency management approach, deployment environment, and backlog you want the engineer to own. Share whether your team uses pytest, mypy, Ruff, Poetry, or uv, along with PostgreSQL and Redis dependencies. Our engineers are senior, many with ten-plus years of experience, and work your team's hours. Book a 15-minute call to discuss the fit.
Frequently asked questions
- Should I hire a Django developer or a FastAPI developer?
- Choose around the application rather than framework popularity. Django suits projects that benefit from its ORM, authentication, migrations, and administrative interface. FastAPI is useful for typed API services built around explicit validation and dependency injection. If your product already uses one, prioritize candidates who can maintain its conventions and diagnose its production issues.
- How do we upgrade an older Python application safely?
- Inventory runtime constraints, direct and transitive dependencies, and packages with compiled extensions. Establish a passing pytest baseline, then test the target Python version in CI before deployment. Django upgrades also require checking framework deprecations and supported runtime versions. Use a reproducible dependency setup, validate production-like workloads, and prepare rollback steps before switching the deployed runtime.
- Can a Python developer fix unreliable Celery background jobs?
- A developer should investigate task idempotency, retry policies, broker behavior, and database transaction timing. With Celery and Redis or RabbitMQ, retries can expose duplicate side effects unless tasks are designed carefully. Review time limits, queue routing, and worker concurrency. Test worker crashes and downstream outages, not just whether the task succeeds during a normal run.
- What should we test when interviewing a senior Python developer?
- Use a small problem resembling your backlog: repair a Django N+1 query, add a validated FastAPI endpoint, or make a data import restartable. Ask for pytest coverage and an explanation of error handling. Discuss typing, database transactions, and observability. For async services, check whether the candidate understands blocking calls and connection-pool limits.
- Will our Python developer work in the US and join our standups?
- Yes. Every engineer lives and works in the US, without offshore subcontracting, and joins your standups during your team's hours. An NDA and full IP assignment are signed before any code work begins. If the fit is not right, we provide a replacement with a proper hand-over of the application work.
- Are your developers really based in the US?
- Yes. Every engineer lives and works in the United States. No offshore subcontracting and no hand-offs to another team. That's written into the contract.
- How fast can someone start?
- Most teams interview matched engineers within a week of the first call. Start dates depend on your interview process.
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