Would it be feasible to lower the hiring bar and set things up so that your company can use some of those plentiful, less experienced, less expensive developers to do some of the straightforward gruntwork that comes with any project? I suppose that's harder to do with Python than it would be with a statically typed mainstream language like Go or Java, since a static type system provides another way of guarding against mistakes. But maybe Python with enforced type annotations as part of the CI process would be good enough.