What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full-Stack Development Lead – Django/Python position at DataFactZ?
Job Role: Full-Stack Development Lead – Django/Python
Location: Northville, MI – On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 10 years
The ideal candidate must have strong, recent Python/Django development experience and a proven background designing, developing, and deploying scalable web applications. The role requires a combination of hands-on engineering, solution architecture, team leadership, project delivery, and excellent client/stakeholder communication skills.
About DataFactZ:
DataFactZ is a data and analytics consulting company headquartered in Northville, Michigan, with delivery teams in the United States and India. For more than two decades, we've helped organizations turn their data into better decisions through data engineering, cloud data platforms on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, business intelligence and visualization, advanced analytics, and AI. Our consultants work on high-impact programs for fortune 500 clients, and we invest in their growth through certifications, hands-on learning, and meaningful work. Curiosity drives everything we do.
Must Have:
- 10 years of software development experience with proven experience as a Technical Lead, Full-Stack Lead, or Application Development Lead.
- Strong, recent, hands-on Python and Django development experience – Django is mandatory.
- Strong understanding of Django architecture, Django REST Framework (DRF), REST APIs, authentication/authorization, ORM, and application security.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor development teams while remaining hands-on with architecture, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making.
- Experience owning end-to-end application delivery — requirements, architecture, technical planning, development, testing, deployment, production support, and release management.
- Strong experience with solution/system architecture, database design, SQL, API design, integration patterns, performance optimization, and scalable application design.
- Experience deploying and supporting enterprise applications in AWS and/or Azure, including applications serving thousands of users; AWS experience is strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, project management, and delivery ownership skills; must be comfortable working directly with clients/business teams and coordinating multiple development workstreams.
Nice to Have: React/modern JavaScript front-end development, FastAPI, GenAI/AI-enabled application development, LLM/API integrations, RAG or AI agents, PostgreSQL/SQL Server, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, AWS serverless/container services, Azure application services, and experience modernizing or architecting cloud-native enterprise applications.
Work Arrangement: This is a full-time, on-site position in Northville, Michigan. Candidates must be able to work from the Northville office regularly.
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Thank You,
Sathish M, Sr Technical Recruiter
Sathish.mailagani@datafactz.ai
DataFactZ, Inc., 22260 Haggerty Rd, MI, 48167
(248) 602-3153 Direct | (248)715 – 6434 Fax