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Hire a Software Engineer

Hire a software engineer without paying $140K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent software engineers starting at $5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can ship roadmap items on time, stop rationing engineering hours across competing priorities, and grow your team without a six-month search.

Software Engineer ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $5K/mo
Typical local cost$12Kโ€“$15K/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 Software Engineer

Adding an engineer the traditional way means months of sourcing, hundreds of resumes that all claim the same skills, and interview loops that drain the team you already have. All the while, your roadmap quietly reorders itself around capacity instead of strategy, and good ideas die in the backlog. Our model closes that gap, we maintain a bench of rigorously vetted engineers so the search is already done when you arrive.

Every candidate passes structured skills-based testing, real-world scenario evaluation shipping features in an unfamiliar codebase, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire a software engineer through us, they are opening pull requests in your repos within 30 days, and we carry the employment contract, payroll, and compliance so nothing new lands on your ops team.

What does a Software Engineer do?

A software engineer designs, builds, and maintains the features and systems your product is made of. Adding a strong one means your backlog finally moves at the speed you plan instead of the speed you can staff.

  • Take features from ticket to production, design discussion, implementation, tests, and deploy included
  • Debug production issues methodically, reading logs and traces to find root causes instead of restarting things
  • Review teammates' pull requests with substance, catching design problems before they calcify into architecture
  • Pay down technical debt deliberately, refactoring the modules that slow every new feature down

When is it time to Hire a Software Engineer?

The moment is familiar, sprint planning has become an exercise in deciding which important work will not happen.

Your roadmap says six months but your engineering capacity quietly says eighteen

Bug fixes and customer requests keep bumping the strategic work, sprint after sprint

Your senior engineers are stretched across so many areas that none of them can go deep anymore

You have tried to hire locally for months and the good candidates keep taking bigger offers

Ready to Hire a Software Engineer? Ship the roadmap you planned, on the timeline you promised.

Hire a Software Engineer

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire software engineer 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.

Ramps into a legacy codebase by reading and asking sharp questions, productive in days

Weighs simple, maintainable solutions over clever ones the next engineer will curse

Uses AI tools to accelerate output while holding every line to review standards

Communicates progress and blockers proactively, so nothing surprises you at the sprint review

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 Software Engineer?

Hiring a software engineer locally typically costs $12,000 to $15,000 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 software engineer working directly inside your codebase, sprint board, and review workflow.

Hiring locally
$12Kโ€“$15K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We employ your engineer, handle contracts, payroll, benefits, and HR admin, and stand behind the placement. When you hire a software engineer this way, capacity compounds, context builds, velocity rises, and your roadmap stops being a wish list.

Common Questions

How quickly can a software engineer start?
Most teams have their engineer merging code within 30 days of the first call. We present a shortlist in days, you run your interview process, and we handle everything after the yes.
How experienced are your software engineers?
Typically 3โ€“7+ years shipping production software, with experience owning features end to end at startups and scale-ups where output is visible and accountability is real.
How do you vet software engineers?
Structured skills-based testing, a real-world evaluation shipping a feature in an unfamiliar codebase, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. Code quality, judgment, and communication are all scored.
What languages and tools do they know?
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, and Java, with React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Git, and AWS common across the bench. Tell us your stack and we shortlist engineers already fluent in it.
Is our code and IP protected?
Yes. Contracts assign all work product to you, NDAs are signed before repository access, and engineers work inside the access controls and security policies you already use.
Can they work in my time zone?
Yes. When you hire a software engineer through us, candidates are matched to your working hours, so standups, pairing, and code review happen live with your team.
How is this different from an outsourcing agency?
An agency hands your project to a shifting pool of developers. Your engineer here is one person, full-time, dedicated to your codebase, and managed by you day to day while we handle employment.

Hire a Software Engineer today

Top-tier vetting, a genuine addition to your team's output, and pricing that lets you add capacity a year sooner. Hire a software engineer and put your backlog on notice.

Hire a Software Engineer