For the site that needs steady hands, not a rebuild
Hire Web Developers
Most web work is not a greenfield build, it is a real site that already has customers and cannot go down while it gets better. These engineers are tested on working safely inside exactly that constraint, then placed wherever your site needs steady, careful hands.
- 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 web 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 engineer we send.
The web developer bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about a favourite stack. This one asks whether a live site stays safe.
What we listen forWhether they can diagnose a rendering difference systematically, not guess and reload.
A layout looks correct in one browser and visibly broken in another, with no obvious console error. Walk us through your diagnosis.
- What strong sounds like
- Isolates the specific CSS or API support gap methodically using the browser's own tools before touching any code.
- What gives us pause
- Adds vendor prefixes or a polyfill speculatively without first confirming what is actually different between the two renders.
HTML/CSS · JavaScript · PHP or Node.js
WordPress · Webflow · Shopify
Browser DevTools · Lighthouse · Cypress
Git · npm · Hosting basics
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.
$2,000–2,600per 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.
$2,900–3,700per 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.
$4,000–5,000per month
Web developer
2 yrs · US East overlap
Fixed a cross-browser layout bug that had shipped unnoticed for months
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- WordPress
Senior web developer
6 yrs · UK + EU hours
Improved a five-year-old site's page-speed score without the rebuild everyone assumed it needed
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Lighthouse
- Git
Lead web developer
9 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the uptime and roadmap for a client's entire web presence
- Web architecture
- CMS platforms
- Performance
- Accessibility
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.
No black-box shortlisting on tool preferences. Each step below produces something you can check for yourself, and stopping at any point costs you nothing.
Define the site problem
We map what your live site actually needs fixed or maintained. The role brief names the problem, not a list of technologies to know.
A brief your leads signMatch against your stack
Candidates are screened against your actual CMS, hosting and review culture. Three engineers who can work safely in your site beat thirty who list a dozen tools.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Your team can watch the cross-browser and same-day-fix exercises live. You see careful triage, not a rehearsed portfolio walkthrough.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards, and a first safe, bounded fix to your live site. Continuity cover means a departure is our problem to schedule around, not your uptime.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who fixed the site instead of rebuilding it.
Web developer proof is a live site kept healthy, not a portfolio of greenfield builds. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A five-year-old site that got faster without a rebuild.
Koru Health's marketing site had accumulated years of small changes and a page-speed score nobody was proud of. An embedded web developer improved it in place, safely, without the rebuild everyone assumed it needed.
- Page-speed score
- Improved sharply
- Rebuild required
- None
We expected to be told we needed a rebuild. He fixed it in place instead, which is what we actually needed.
Sample · pending client approval
She found the email bug in twenty minutes after two previous freelancers gave up on it.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a web pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one engineer maintaining and improving an existing site. Some need a pod that owns the whole web presence outright. When the honest need is a rebuild rather than maintenance, we say so.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single web developer inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and the most common way teams start.
- Delivery pods
A web pod
A pod with its own lead that owns your web presence end to end, from uptime to new pages. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Custom software development
The practice, not the person
When the honest need is new software built, not an existing site maintained, custom software development takes that accountability instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before a web developer hire is signed.
01What does a web developer actually do day to day?
Maintains and improves an existing, already-live site by fixing cross-browser issues, improving page speed and accessibility, and making safe changes to code that often predates them. The unglamorous majority of the work is not breaking anything while making it better.
02Do you hire for a specific CMS or stack?
Matched to your actual site. Triage and diagnostic judgement transfer across WordPress, Webflow or a custom stack, then the evaluation confirms familiarity with whichever one your site runs.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, and the published tasks are built to be reused directly. Several clients now run the same-day-fix exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can a web developer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a continuously evaluated bench. From there, start speed mostly depends on how quickly your side grants hosting and repository access.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
You direct the work day to day, same as any hire on your team. We take on the employer side of it instead: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the awkward transitions.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Say so as soon as you notice, and the replacement is on us. The next developer is briefed on the specific gap, which is why it rarely takes two tries.
07Do your web developers use AI coding tools?
Yes, openly. AI drafts repetitive markup and routine fixes quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every cross-browser decision, accessibility fix and merge that reaches your live site.
08How does pricing work for a hired web developer?
The bands above set the honest range for this role; the shortlist confirms the number per engineer. Monthly billing, no placement fee, notice period only.