For features that need one owner from database to browser
Hire Full-Stack Developers
A full-stack engineer is not two half-engineers stapled together. The real skill is reasoning about a feature as one connected decision across the database, the API and the interface. Most teams discover the difference only when a feature ships broken at exactly the seam nobody owned. These engineers are picked against that inflation risk, proven on the cross-layer ledger above, and embedded in the delivery rhythm you already run.
- Profiles typically within two business days
- Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
- You interview before placement if you want to
- At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
- 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
How we evaluate a full-stack engineer
The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.
90 secSample frame · video pending01Published, not promised
The assessment behind every engineer we send.
Full-stack claims are the easiest to inflate, so the assessment is public: five competencies probing whether someone truly owns both sides of a feature, with the failing tells included.
What we listen forWhether they can carry a feature from schema to screen without a handoff.
Design a feature that lets a user schedule a recurring action. Walk us through the database, the API and the interface as one connected decision.
- What strong sounds like
- Reasons about the three layers together, catching where a UI decision constrains the schema or vice versa, before writing any of them.
- What gives us pause
- Designs each layer in isolation, discovering the mismatch only once asked to connect them.
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS
Node.js · Express · PostgreSQL · Prisma
Jest · Playwright · React Testing Library
Docker · AWS · GitHub Actions
02Who you actually meet
The bench, priced by seniority.
Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.
Engineer
Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.
The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.
$2,500–3,200per month
Senior
The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.
Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.
$3,500–4,400per month
Lead
The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.
One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.
$4,700–5,900per month
Full-stack engineer
4 yrs · UK + EU hours
Owns a customer portal end to end, deploys included
- Next.js
- Prisma
- Tailwind
- Playwright
Senior full-stack engineer
8 yrs · US East overlap
Carried a scheduling feature from schema to screen in one sprint cycle
- React
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- TypeScript
Lead product engineer
10 yrs · EU + US split
Ran the two-person pod that rebuilt an onboarding flow around real usage data
- React
- Node.js
- AWS
- Redis
Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.
Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison
03From stated problem to first change
Four steps, each closing on evidence.
Each of the four hiring steps produces something inspectable, from the signed brief to the first end-to-end change. Stop anywhere; nothing is owed for looking.
Define the feature to be owned
We map what the feature needs across every layer it touches. The role brief describes the problem to solve end to end, not a stack of technologies to know.
A brief your leads signMatch against your stack
Candidates are screened against your actual frontend, backend and data layer choices, and your review culture. Three engineers who fit beat thirty generalists.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Observe the end-to-end feature exercise as it happens; ownership across layers is visible or it is absent. You see cross-layer reasoning, not a rehearsed answer favouring one layer.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards and a first bounded feature end to end. Under continuity cover a departure is absorbed on our side before your release plan notices.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who owned the feature, not just their layer of it.
Full-stack proof is features shipped without a handoff delay and bugs traced across the whole boundary. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A feature that shipped without the usual handoff delay between layers.
Aster North's new scheduling feature had historically taken three sprints when split across a frontend and backend specialist. One full-stack engineer owning it end to end cut that in half.
- Delivery time versus prior features
- Roughly halved
- Cross-team handoffs required
- None
The trade-off question in the interview was one our own two specialists had argued about for a week. He answered it in ten minutes with a clear reason.
Sample · pending client approval
She traced a stale-data bug across three services in an afternoon that our team had been chasing separately for two weeks.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a feature pod, or a practice.
One engineer owning features whole, a pod owning a product surface, or the product practice when what you need is delivery, not a seat. We route honestly between them.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single full-stack specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment and the most common starting point.
- Delivery pods
A feature pod
Engineers and a lead who own a product surface end to end. You set priorities and acceptance while the pod carries delivery.
- Product engineering
The practice, not the person
And when the truthful requirement is a whole product delivered, the product practice takes that accountability rather than renting you a seat.
06Straight answers
Asked before a full-stack hire is signed.
01What does a full-stack engineer actually do day to day?
Owns a feature across the database, API and interface as one connected decision, debugs issues that cross those boundaries, and ships work that is verified in production, not just merged. The unglamorous majority of the work is the seams between layers that specialists tend to leave for someone else.
02Is a full-stack engineer weaker than two specialists?
Not for features that require reasoning across layers, which is most features. Two specialists working in isolation often produce a mismatch at the seam that a full-stack engineer would have caught while designing the whole thing together.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Run your own loops freely and reuse the published tasks. Watching a candidate work our cross-layer exercise live tells most clients more than a CV screen ever did.
04How fast can a full-stack engineer start?
A shortlist within days from the standing bench. From there, start speed follows your access process, since a full-stack engineer needs both repository sides opened.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Day-to-day direction is entirely yours. We remain accountable for the employment layer: continuity, payroll, replacement and transitions.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Call it early. The replacement is on us, and the second match starts from a precise reading of the gap rather than hope.
07Do your full-stack developers rely on AI coding assistants?
They use them, and stay accountable across both layers. AI accelerates the repetitive ends of a feature; the engineer owns the architecture seams, the data contract and the merge. Cross-layer judgement is exactly the part no assistant provides.
08How does pricing work for a hired full-stack engineer?
The tier bands above set expectations; the shortlist sets the exact number per engineer. No placement fee, notice-period exit, nothing owed pre-interview.