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Hire a Full Stack Developer

Hire a full stack developer without paying $135K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent full stack developers starting at $5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can ship complete features with one engineer, stop coordinating handoffs between specialists, and keep your product moving on a lean team.

Full Stack Developer ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $5K/mo
Typical local cost$11.5Kโ€“$14.5K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level3โ€“7+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Full Stack Developer

When features need a frontend person, a backend person, and a meeting to connect them, everything ships slower. Small teams feel this hardest, you cannot justify two specialists, so features crawl through handoffs or wait for one overloaded generalist. Genuine full stack talent is rare locally and priced accordingly. Our model closes that gap with developers tested rigorously on both sides of the stack, placed in weeks.

Every candidate goes through structured skills-based testing across frontend and backend work, real-world scenario evaluation building a complete feature from database schema to UI, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire a full stack developer through us, they are shipping end to end in your codebase within 30 days, and we handle the employment contract, payroll, and compliance entirely.

What does a Full Stack Developer do?

A full stack developer builds complete features, the database schema, the API, and the interface, without waiting on anyone. For a lean team, that means whole product ideas ship as one ticket instead of three.

  • Ship features end to end, designing the data model, building the API, and wiring the React UI in one pass
  • Move fluidly between fixing a frontend state bug in the morning and a slow query in the afternoon
  • Build internal tools and admin panels that save your ops team hours without pulling specialists off product
  • Own integrations completely, from the webhook receiver to the interface your team uses to manage it

When is it time to Hire a Full Stack Developer?

The trigger is a feature that took three weeks because it crossed the stack twice and waited on a specialist at every crossing.

Simple features take weeks because frontend and backend work keeps waiting on different people

You have one developer who can touch everything, and they are drowning

Internal tools your team begs for never get built because product work always outranks them

You need real product velocity but cannot justify hiring two specialists yet

Ready to Hire a Full Stack Developer? Ship whole features with one engineer instead of a relay team.

Hire a Full Stack Developer

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire full stack developer through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Truly strong on both sides of the stack, rather than one specialty with a hobby attached

Scopes features vertically and ships a working slice early, instead of building layers in isolation

Knows when good enough is right for the UI and when the data model deserves real care

Uses AI tools to stay fast across a wide surface area without letting quality drift

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Full Stack Developer?

Hiring a full stack developer locally typically costs $11,500 to $14,500 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time full stack developer working directly inside your entire codebase, from database migrations to UI components.

Hiring locally
$11.5Kโ€“$14.5K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We take on employment, contracts, payroll, benefits, and HR admin, while they operate as your product engineer. When you hire a full stack developer this way, the flexibility compounds, one person who knows your whole system can take on whatever next quarter throws at your roadmap.

Common Questions

How quickly can a full stack developer start?
Most teams have their developer shipping across the stack within 30 days of the first call. Shortlist in days, your interviews, then we handle contracts and onboarding.
How experienced are your full stack developers?
Typically 3โ€“7+ years shipping complete features in production, often as early engineers at startups where owning everything from schema to UI was simply the job.
How do you vet full stack developers?
Structured skills-based testing on both frontend and backend, a real-world build of a complete feature from database to interface, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. Both sides must pass independently.
What stacks do they work in?
React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js with PostgreSQL and Prisma are most common, plus Python with Django, and AWS or Vercel for deployment. We match candidates to your exact stack.
Are they actually strong on both frontend and backend?
Yes, because we test each side separately during vetting. Candidates who are excellent on one side and weak on the other are placed as specialists instead, never as full stack.
Can they work in my time zone?
Yes. When you hire a full stack developer through us, candidates are matched to your working hours, so they are online when product questions and reviews come up.
How is this different from a freelance developer?
A freelancer splits focus across clients and rarely stays long enough to know your system deeply. Your developer here is full-time, dedicated, and employed through us, with support if needs change.

Hire a Full Stack Developer today

One rigorously vetted engineer covering your whole stack, features that ship without handoffs, and a cost that fits a lean-stage budget. Hire a full stack developer and collapse the relay race.

Hire a Full Stack Developer