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Hire Dedicated Developers Embedded in Your Team

A dedicated developer isn't a contractor who logs hours on a ticket queue — they're a full-time addition to your team, in your standups, your repo, and your time zone overlap. You get the output of an employee without the hiring pipeline.

Full-TimeYour ToolsYour Time ZoneFlexible Term
$287,500
true first-year cost of a $150k in-house developer once fees, ramp-up and lost productivity are counted
Full Scale
30–50%
lower cost of a dedicated senior team vs an equivalent in-house US hire — with faster ramp-up
Full Scale

What sets our dedicated developers apart

Full-time on your project only

No split attention across other clients — the developer works exclusively on your codebase for the duration of the engagement.

Embedded in your workflow

Your repo, your ticket tracker, your standups, your Slack — not a separate process you have to translate output from.

Time zone overlap you can plan around

Scheduled to match enough working hours with your team for real-time collaboration, not just async handoffs.

Managed by you or by us

You can direct the developer's day-to-day work yourself, or let us handle task breakdown and delivery — your call.

Vetted before you meet them

Every developer we propose has already passed a technical and communication screen, so interviews are about fit, not filtering.

What a dedicated developer engagement covers

Solo or small-team augmentation

One developer or a small pod added directly to your existing team.

Stack match

Developers matched to your specific stack and codebase conventions, not a generic generalist.

Flexible ramp and scale

Start with one developer and add more as scope grows, without renegotiating from scratch.

Direct communication

You talk to the developer directly — no account-manager relay slowing down decisions.

Month-to-month flexibility

Scale the team up, down, or swap a developer out as your roadmap changes.

FAQ

It means the developer is allocated to your project full-time for the length of the engagement, working exclusively on your codebase rather than splitting time across multiple clients.

A freelancer typically juggles multiple clients and projects in parallel. A dedicated developer works only on your project, joins your team's tools and rituals, and is available for the hours you've agreed on.

Yes. We propose developers who already match your stack and scope, and you interview them before the engagement starts to confirm fit.

We swap them out. The goal is a working team, not a fixed assignment — if fit isn't right after starting, we replace the developer at no disruption to your timeline beyond a short handoff.

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Request team composition & monthly rate

Tell us your stack and the scope you need covered — we'll propose a team composition and a monthly rate.