If you're using PostgreSQL, then
django-postgres-queue: https://github.com/gavinwahl/django-postgres-queue
procrastinate: https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate/
I ran on Huey for a few years on a python/postgres ecosystem project fronted by Django, and ultimately migrated to django-postgres-queue, which is wonderful. (There has since been a fork that I have not used.) It uses the same underlying primitives as OP, and I would absolutely recommend this to anyone operating in the same ecosystem.
I wrote django-postgres-queue for this purpose. It uses postgres transactions to keep queue and application state in sync. It also uses SKIP LOCKED to avoid some of the typical issues with using a database as a queue.