Software Development Staffing
Hire Remote Developers Who Ship Against Your Backlog
We place front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers with US companies as international contractors. They work only your account and report to your engineering leads. Hiring internationally widens the pool you can pick from and stretches the same budget further into it. The rate is quoted per role.
How to hire remote developers through us
We start by scoping the seat: the stack, the codebase, the tickets a person would pick up in month one, and who reviews their pull requests. Then we recruit against that scope rather than searching a resume database. The developer is engaged as a contractor through us, dedicated to your account only, and sits in your reporting line under your engineering lead.
You get one monthly invoice from us. We pay the contractor and carry the contracting and compliance obligations in their country, so your finance team is not opening a new entity or figuring out foreign tax rules. You manage the work the way you manage the rest of the team: standups, sprint planning, code review, one-on-ones.
The code exercise is the gate that matters
Every candidate clears five screening gates before you meet them: identity and work history, language proficiency, role-specific skills testing, reference checks, and workspace and security posture. For developers, the skills gate is a code exercise built around work like yours. We read the submission and how they explain it, not just whether the tests pass. Someone who cannot write and defend working code does not reach your calendar.
This makes us slower to source than a firm that forwards resumes the same week. That is deliberate. The heavy work sits at the front, and the payoff is a short list of people who can do the job instead of a stack you have to filter. We will not quote a time to shortlist or a time to fill. It depends on the stack and the seat, and a number invented now is a number missed later.
A wider pool, and a budget that reaches into it
A mid-level React or Node role in a US metro puts you in a bidding war with every funded startup in the same zip code. Recruiting from the Philippines and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa changes the shape of that problem. There are more engineers to consider, and an international contractor costs a fraction of a comparable US hire, so the same line item covers a seat you kept postponing.
We quote the rate per role, because a junior front-end seat and a full-stack seat carrying a payments integration are not the same job. The rate is strong and competitive in the markets we recruit from. This model works on the gap between labor markets, not on paying anyone less than their work is worth.
Where this model does not fit
This is not the right call for a two-week fix or a fixed-scope project you want handed back finished. We fill seats, not statements of work. It also suits teams that expect to keep the seat filled for a year or more, because the ramp into your codebase pays back over that horizon. If you need a body for one sprint, hire a freelancer.
Getting started asks less of you than that sounds. A search opens with a $500 deposit, credited back against your first monthly invoice once the developer starts. When they start, you commit to 90 days of fees. Nothing longer is signed. If the fit is wrong inside those 90 days, we run the search again and waive the deposit on the replacement.
What you get
Included in every engagement
Dedicated to your account only
The developer works your backlog and no one else's. They join your standups, your sprint board, and your code review rotation, reporting to your engineering lead.
Front-end, back-end, full-stack
We recruit against your actual stack and the tickets in your queue, whether that is a React front end, a Node or Python service layer, or one person covering both.
A code exercise, not a resume skim
Skills testing for developers means writing code against a realistic problem and explaining the choices. It is the gate that removes candidates before you spend an hour interviewing.
One invoice, no foreign entity
You pay us monthly. We pay the contractor and hold the contracting and compliance obligations in their country, so nothing new lands on your finance or legal team.
Optional secure remote workstation
One add-on, priced separately from the seat: a US-hosted virtual desktop, centrally controlled access you can revoke the day an engagement ends, disclosed activity monitoring, and managed endpoint security.
Screening
Five gates before you see a shortlist
- Identity & work history
- Language proficiency
- Role-specific skills testing
- Reference checks
- Workspace & security posture
Questions
Frequently asked
What does a remote developer cost?
The rate is quoted per role. Developer seats sit below our senior and Tier 3 technical band, and the number depends on the stack, the seniority, and what the seat carries. You pay one monthly rate that covers the contractor, the contracting and compliance work in their country, and the people management around the seat. We earn on that monthly rate, not on the introduction.
Can we move the developer onto our payroll later?
Not on this model. Contract-to-hire and direct placement, which both end with the person on your payroll, are available for Tier 3 technical and management seats only. A developer seat engaged through us stays engaged through us. That is not a limitation on the work: the contractor reports to your managers, sits in your reporting line, and works only your account for as long as the seat exists.
How long until we see candidates?
We will not give you a number. Time to shortlist depends on the stack, how specific the seat is, and how much of the market actually writes that code. Any figure we invented here would be a figure we missed later, and you would remember the miss. What we will tell you is the order of work: scope the seat, recruit against it, run five gates, then send you people.
Do we need more than one developer to start?
No. One seat is a normal starting point, and a single search is a reasonable way to test the model before you add a second. If you need a whole function covered, the same arrangement scales to a dedicated team: several contractors, all engaged through us, all reporting into your line. The commitment stays at 90 days of fees per seat once someone starts.
Roles we place
Other roles we place
Open a developer search with a $500 deposit
Tell us the role, the hours you need covered, and what good looks like in ninety days. We will come back with a plan and a shortlist.