I’m looking for a full-time Python developer who knows Django inside out and is comfortable scheduling background jobs with cron. The immediate mission is performance tuning—no new features for now, just making the existing codebase leaner and faster. Here’s what I need you to tackle: • Audit the current Django project, pinpointing the slowest views, helper modules, and cron-driven routines. • Cut memory usage wherever possible—profiling objects, eliminating redundant data structures, and caching smartly. • Improve execution speed by tightening algorithms, removing unnecessary I/O, and exploiting Django’s built-in optimizations. • Refactor critical sections so the code stays readable and maintainable once the heavy lifting is done. A concise report summarizing each change, the before/after metrics, and any trade-offs you made will wrap up the assignment. The stack already runs on Python 3.11, Django 4.x, PostgreSQL, and supervisord for cron-style jobs, so hands-on experience with these is essential. If you thrive on squeezing every millisecond out of Python code, let’s talk.