Hire Software Developers
Why us
Hire Software Developers Without the Six Week Search
Finding a software developer to hire is not the hard part. Post the role and you'll have a hundred resumes inside a week. The hard part is knowing which one of them is right, and that call is difficult to make without a development background of your own. You interview on gut feel, you take a candidate's word for the work they say they've done, and you find out months later whether the read was correct.
It gets harder because "developer" isn't one job. One project needs someone deep in a specific piece of backend logic. Another needs a versatile developer who can carry the frontend, the backend, and the server side on their own. Another needs someone whose whole career has been in mobile. Those are different specialties, and a strong developer in one can be the wrong hire in another. Before you can judge anyone, you have to know exactly what you need, and that's the part most founders are guessing at.
We take that off your plate. We start from the outcome you're after, define the role behind it, then assess candidates and match you with the person who actually fits it, someone whose work we have checked ourselves. You review a shortlist that has already been filtered against the role instead of a stack of resumes you have to decode. That's how a six week search turns into a matter of days.
Roles
Hire Software Engineers Across the Stack
When you hire software engineers through us, you aren't getting names pulled off a marketplace. These are developers we have worked with ourselves, who have taken projects from the first line to the live product, and who we trust in front of our own clients.
Some of them are full stack, comfortable across the frontend, the backend, and the server decisions sitting behind both. Others are mobile, from cross platform developers who ship one app to both iOS and Android, to Android specialists who work close to the native tooling on the device. Tell us the job and we'll put the right one in front of you.
Need to find a programmer for an app or a platform you already have? Hire a full stack developer or an Android app developer.
How it works
A Programmer for Hire, or a Team That Stays
The question isn't only who you hire, it's the shape of the engagement. Some work runs longer than a single project and asks for more than a single skill set. It moves from architecture to build to release to the changes that come after, and each of those stages wants someone different at the front of it. That work suits a team you keep, where people with different specialties are assigned as the project calls for them and the whole thing comes managed. You describe the outcome, and you aren't the one deciding who picks up which piece.
Other work is narrower and better served by a programmer for hire. The scope is defined, the deadline is real, and you need one person to execute against it. Often the rest is already in place: you have designers, you have product management, you have a roadmap someone internally owns, and the only gap is the technical side. Or it's an internal tool that has to exist and work, and nothing about it needs an agency wrapped around it. In those cases a single developer working to your direction gets it built faster and costs you less than a team you don't have work to fill.
Most clients know which of the two they're in as soon as it's put that way. If you don't, tell us what you're trying to ship and we'll say which one the project actually calls for, including when the answer is the smaller one.
Need a whole squad rather than a single hire? That's a dedicated development team.
Vetting
How We Vet Every Developer You Hire
Our developers don't come from a marketplace listing. They come from the community around our open source startup boilerplate. Developers found it, built on it, contributed back to it, and over time we ended up working alongside them on real client projects. By the time someone is in our network, we have already seen their code, their judgment calls, and how they behave when a deadline gets tight.
That is the vetting. Not a take home test and a pleasant interview, but a record of shipped work we were present for. A technical screen tells you someone can solve a puzzle on a whiteboard. It doesn't tell you whether they communicate when they're blocked, whether their estimates hold, or whether the code they leave behind is something the next developer can pick up. Working with someone tells you all three, and that is the only signal we trust when we hire remote software developers into the network.
It also means we know who to put where. The developers with the most projects behind them, the ones who have been through difficult launches and lived with the consequences, get assigned to the work that carries the most risk. A founder looking to hire developers for a startup with a hard deadline gets someone who has done exactly that before, not whoever happened to be free that week.
We are careful about this because the whole business runs on trust. Every developer we put in front of you carries our name with them, so a bad match costs us far more than it costs you. That is the incentive we want to be judged on. You get people we would put on our own projects, and if the fit turns out to be wrong, we say so first and fix it.
Cost
What It Costs to Hire a Software Developer
There is no single rate, and any agency that quotes you one before hearing what you're building is guessing. Two things move the number more than anything else: how complex the project is, and what level of seniority it genuinely requires. A well defined internal tool and a platform that has to handle real traffic on day one are not the same job, and they do not call for the same developer.
Specialty moves it too. Some projects need someone deep in one particular area, a stack, a platform, or a domain with rules you can't learn on the fly. We can source that person for you, and the rate reflects how narrow the requirement is. That is worth paying for when the project depends on it, and worth avoiding when it doesn't, which is a call we make with you rather than for you.
So we start with an assessment instead of a price list. We look at what you're building, what your deadline actually is, and how much complexity is hiding behind the description. From there we calculate the software development cost against the work in front of you and put different levels of engagement on the table, so you can see what you get at each one and choose the level that fits the budget and the timeline you're working with.
As a starting point, most projects we take on land between $5,000 and $10,000. That is a real range rather than a headline figure, and where you sit inside it follows from the seniority and the complexity above.
The assessment is free and it ends with a number you can plan against, not a range wide enough to mean nothing.
Hiring Developers FAQs
Tell Us Who You Need
Send us the role, the stack, and the date you want someone starting. We will come back with developers who have already been vetted against it, in days rather than the six weeks a job board takes.