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Python Backend Engineering

Python is everywhere — from startups to data platforms — and strong Python backend engineers are in constant demand. This track takes you deep into building production APIs with FastAPI and Django: designing endpoints, working with databases, testing, and shipping to the cloud. Project-driven and taught by practitioners.

Duration
12 weeks
Commitment
~12 hrs/week · part-time, evenings
Format
Live online — with optional in-person lab days in Nairobi
Level
Intermediate · for people who already write code

Specialist track

$1,300

Indicative · your local currency · pre-VAT-determination

Deposit $350, then monthly installments

Cohort 1 · Online

Starts 26 October 2026

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A short application — no payment on this site.

Refund & deferral policy

What you'll learn

  • Idiomatic, well-structured, testable Python
  • Building REST APIs with FastAPI and Django REST Framework
  • Relational databases, ORMs, transactions and migrations
  • Testing with pytest, plus authentication and API security
  • Containerising and deploying Python services to the cloud
  • Working AI-natively: spec-driven development with AI coding agents in a Python codebase
AI-native by default

The AI classes in this program

Every Lightspace program teaches the AI-native method — not a bolt-on module, but a working style woven through the projects.

  • Spec-driven development with AI coding agents across every Python project
  • Context engineering for Python codebases — conventions and project memory files agents follow
  • The agent loop: review and verify AI-written Python before it merges
  • AI-assisted testing, refactoring and debugging on real FastAPI/Django services

The curriculum

  1. 1

    Modern Python

    Weeks 1–3

    Idiomatic Python, typing, project structure, and writing clean, testable code.

  2. 2

    APIs & data

    Weeks 4–6

    REST APIs with FastAPI and Django, ORMs, and connecting to PostgreSQL.

  3. 3

    Test, secure, harden

    Weeks 7–9

    pytest, authentication and security, transactions and migrations.

  4. 4

    Ship it

    Weeks 10–12

    Containerising with Docker, deploying to the cloud, and a capstone API you present and defend.

What you leave with

  • A deployed, tested Python API backed by PostgreSQL
  • A portfolio project that stands up in a backend interview
  • The fundamentals to grow into senior backend and platform roles

How you're taught

Live cohorts led by working practitioners — not pre-recorded videos.

Live, not recorded

Real classes on a schedule, with a group that keeps you moving.

Practitioner instructors

Taught by people who build and ship software for a living.

Feedback on your work

Code review and honest feedback on real projects, every week.

Questions

Where does it take place?

Live online — you can join from anywhere in the world. In-person lab days at our Nairobi base are optional, not required.

How much time does it take?

12 weeks, at roughly ~12 hrs/week · part-time, evenings.

What do I need to start?

Intermediate · for people who already write code.

How do payments work?

There's no payment on this website. You submit a short application; if you're accepted, our team emails you to confirm your place and arrange payment — a deposit, then monthly installments.

What language is it taught in?

All live classes and materials are in English.

How much Python do I need?

You should be comfortable with basic programming; Python specifically isn't required. We build from modern Python fundamentals up to production APIs.

Full details in our Refund, withdrawal & deferral policy.