Hire by role
Every role we staff, and what each one costs
33 specialties across 10 disciplines. Every hire clears a live coding or portfolio review, a reference check, and a paid trial week. From $500/week, month-to-month.
AI & ML
10 rolesHire AI Developer
LLM integration, model pipelines, and AI product features — matched to engineers who have already passed a live technical review and paid trial week.
$500–$2,400/week
Hire LLM Engineer
RAG pipelines, vector search, prompt evals, and cost-aware model routing — vetted engineers with production LLM experience.
$500–$2,400/week
Hire AI Agent Developer
Tool calling, agent orchestration, and guardrailed automation — engineers who have wired agents into real products, not demo notebooks.
$500–$2,500/week
Hire Cursor Developer
Engineers who use Cursor daily in real repos — with tests, PR review, and the judgment to know when AI output is wrong.
$500–$2,400/week
Hire Claude Engineer
Anthropic API, tool use, prompt evals, and cost-aware routing — engineers who have shipped Claude in live products.
$500–$2,500/week
Hire GitHub Copilot Developer
Copilot in your org’s GitHub — with the discipline to test, review, and own what merges to main.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Replit Developer
Replit Agent, deployments, and full-stack velocity — engineers who know when to move code into your repo and CI.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Codex Engineer
OpenAI Codex in your stack — with the judgment to test, review, and merge what actually holds up in production.
$500–$2,500/week
Hire AI-Native Developer
Cursor, Claude, Copilot — plus the engineering judgment to merge, test, and deploy what actually works.
$500–$2,500/week
Hire Machine Learning Engineer
PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLOps, and model monitoring — not just Kaggle notebooks that never leave a laptop.
$500–$2,400/week
Frontend
3 rolesHire React Developer
React, Next.js, TypeScript — vetted engineers who ship accessible, performant UI and stay month-to-month as your roadmap evolves.
$500–$2,000/week
Hire Next.js Developer
App Router, server components, and TypeScript — engineers who know when to render on the server and when not to.
$500–$2,000/week
Hire Frontend Engineer
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS — framework-agnostic engineers who integrate APIs, fix performance, and hand off clean components.
$500–$2,000/week
Backend
5 rolesHire Python Developer
Django, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL — senior Python engineers vetted with live coding and a paid trial before day one on your team.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Node.js Developer
Express, NestJS, GraphQL, and WebSockets — backend engineers vetted on Node in production, not tutorial todo apps.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Backend Developer
Node.js, Python, Go — senior backend engineers for APIs, data layers, and integrations. Vetted live, trial week before full placement.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Go Developer
Go, gRPC, Kafka, and PostgreSQL — engineers who have run services at scale, not just rewritten Python in Go for sport.
$500–$2,300/week
Hire Laravel Developer
Laravel, Vue, MySQL, and queue workers — senior PHP engineers for products that need to move fast without a framework rewrite every two years.
$500–$2,000/week
Mobile
4 rolesHire Mobile Developer
iOS, React Native, and cross-platform — engineers who have shipped consumer apps and pass a live technical review plus paid trial week.
$500–$2,300/week
Hire iOS Developer
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and TestFlight — engineers who have shipped consumer apps through review, not just Xcode tutorials.
$500–$2,300/week
Hire Android Developer
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material 3 — engineers who have shipped Android apps users actually keep installed.
$500–$2,200/week
Hire Flutter Developer
Flutter, Dart, Firebase — cross-platform engineers who know when shared UI helps and when platform channels are the right call.
$500–$2,200/week
Infrastructure
3 rolesHire DevOps Engineer
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform — platform engineers vetted on real infrastructure problems, not certification trivia.
$500–$2,400/week
Hire Cloud Engineer
AWS, GCP, Terraform, and networking — engineers who design for cost and recovery, not just checkbox compliance.
$500–$2,500/week
Hire Site Reliability Engineer
SLOs, on-call, Datadog, and runbooks — reliability engineers who have lived production fires and wrote the postmortem that actually changed something.
$500–$2,400/week
Design
3 rolesHire UI/UX Designer
Product design, design systems, and user research — vetted designers with portfolio reviews and a paid trial on a real brief.
$500–$1,800/week
Hire Frontend Designer
Visual design, layout, typography, and component specs — designers who think in responsive breakpoints and engineer-friendly handoff.
$500–$1,800/week
Hire Product Designer
Discovery, prioritization, and high-fidelity UI — designers who work with founders and PMs before engineers open a ticket.
$500–$2,000/week
E-commerce & CMS
2 rolesHire Shopify Developer
Liquid, Shopify Plus, headless storefronts — engineers who know checkout is not the place to experiment with untested apps.
$500–$2,000/week
Hire WordPress Developer
WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP — engineers for marketing sites and stores that need to stay fast, secure, and editable by non-devs.
$500–$1,800/week
Not sure which role you need?
Most briefs do not arrive with a job title attached. Tell us what you are building and Hooman Hamzeh will scope the right skill profile on the call — including telling you if the project is not a fit for how we work.
Tell us the role and we will match this week
Most clients are matched within a week of the intro call. Month-to-month, with a paid trial before you commit.