For bots that keep running after something changes
Hire RPA Developers
A bot that runs perfectly in testing can still freeze the first time a vendor moves a button or a queue backs up overnight. These developers are tested on catching that exact fragility before it reaches production. They are then placed to keep automation resilient as the systems around it keep changing.
- 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 an RPA developer
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 developer we send.
The RPA bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask which platform someone has clicked through before. This one asks whether a bot survives the next unexpected pop-up.
What we listen forWhether they build for change, not just today's screen layout.
A bot that has run reliably for months breaks overnight because a vendor moved a button on their web portal. Diagnose and propose a fix.
- What strong sounds like
- Proposes resilient selector strategies, such as anchor-based or attribute-based targeting, and adds a check that fails loudly instead of silently mis-clicking.
- What gives us pause
- Hardcodes a fix for the new button position without addressing why the original selector could not tolerate the layout change.
UiPath · Automation Anywhere · Blue Prism
Selector Strategies · Computer Vision · Exception Frameworks
Credential Vaults · CyberArk · Encrypted Assets
Queue-Based Scheduling · Orchestrator · Robotic Process Monitoring
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.
$1,900–2,500per 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.
$2,700–3,400per 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.
$3,700–4,600per month
RPA developer
2 yrs · US East overlap
Rebuilt a bot's selector logic after a UI update silently broke it for a full week unnoticed
- UiPath
- Selector Design
- Exception Handling
Senior RPA developer
5 yrs · UK + EU hours
Redesigned a bot's exception handling after a silent failure went undetected for days
- Automation Anywhere
- Orchestration
- Queue Design
Lead RPA architect
8 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the automation-suitability review that stops bots being built for processes that should not be automated
- Architecture
- Process Assessment
- Credential Security
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.
This sequence is built around your actual process candidates, not a platform certification list. Stopping at any point along the way owes us nothing.
Define the automation problem
We map which of your processes are actually fragile, unattended or exception-heavy. The brief names that gap, not a list of RPA platforms to know.
A brief your process owners signMatch against your platform
Candidates are screened against your actual RPA platform, your exception volume and your security requirements. Three developers who understand your processes beat thirty who list a platform badge.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Your team can watch the resilience and exception-handling exercises directly. What shows up is judgement about fragile automation, not a rehearsed platform demo.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards and a first bounded bot shipped for real. Continuity cover keeps a departure from turning into an unattended process nobody is watching.
A running bot in week one
04Evidence and proof
Developers who built bots that survive a bad morning.
RPA proof is a bot that kept running after something changed, not a demo recorded on a quiet day. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
The invoice bot that stopped freezing at two in the morning.
Aster North's invoice-processing bot kept freezing on an unexpected vendor pop-up, and nobody noticed until the next business day's backlog had already built up. An embedded RPA developer rebuilt the exception handling to recover automatically and alert the team immediately.
- Unattended failures reaching morning
- None, going forward
- Recovery
- Automatic, same night
He moved every credential out of the bot's workflow and into a vault before we even had to ask.
Sample · pending client approval
She talked us out of automating a process that would have broken every week, and she was right.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add a developer, an automation pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one developer strengthening bots already in production. Some need a pod that owns bot resilience and orchestration end to end. Where automating a whole operating process matters more than one seat, we point you to the practice instead.
- Team extension
One named developer
A single RPA specialist inside your direction and your review process. The smallest commitment, and the natural first step.
- Delivery pods
An automation pod
A pod with its own lead that owns bot resilience, exception handling and orchestration end to end. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Product Engineering
The practice, not the person
When automating a whole operating process outweighs adding one seat, product engineering takes that broader scope on instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before an RPA hire is signed.
01What does an RPA developer actually do day to day?
Builds bots that survive selector and layout changes, designs exception handling for unattended runs, and keeps credentials out of workflow steps entirely. Part of the job is deciding what should not be automated at all.
02Do you hire for a specific RPA platform?
Matched to your actual platform. Resilience and exception-handling judgement transfers across UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, then the evaluation confirms fluency with whichever you run.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, the published tasks are built to be reused directly. Several clients now run the exception-handling exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can an RPA developer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a bench evaluated continuously. Actual start speed after that depends on how quickly your side can grant platform and system access.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Your process owners set automation priorities and review the bots built. We hold the employment side instead, covering payroll and arranging continuity if someone needs replacing.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
A miss reported early costs you nothing beyond the delay of finding it. We fold the specific mismatch into the brief for whoever replaces the developer.
07Do your RPA developers use AI tools?
Yes, to accelerate first-draft workflow steps and test scripts. The developer still owns every exception path, credential decision and selector choice that ships into production.
08How does pricing work for a hired RPA developer?
Rate bands here are a starting point, not the final word; the shortlist pins the actual number for your engineer. Monthly billing, no placement fee, notice-period exit only.