11 roles · flat-price alternative

Before you hire a full-time engineer, see the alternative.

Every role below compares the fully-loaded year-1 cost of a senior local hire to a flat-price engagement with one named engineer — same stack, no recruiting pipeline, no relocation timeline.

Hire Next.js Developer

Production App Router builds. Not a Vercel demo.

Senior hire runs ~$285K/yr loaded

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Hire React Developer

Production frontends shipped on a flat price.

Senior hire runs ~$265K/yr loaded

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Hire TypeScript Developer

End-to-end type safety. Not just .ts file extensions.

Senior hire runs ~$275K/yr loaded

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Hire SaaS Developer

Multi-tenant, Stripe-billed, production from day one.

Senior hire runs ~$295K/yr loaded

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Hire Mobile App Developer

iOS + Android from one engineer. TestFlight in three weeks.

Senior hire runs ~$255K/yr loaded

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Hire AI Engineer

LLM features that ship, with evals so they don't drift.

Senior hire runs ~$340K/yr loaded

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Hire Full-Stack Developer

Frontend, backend, database, deploy — one engineer.

Senior hire runs ~$310K/yr loaded

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Hire AI-Native Engineer

Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.

Senior hire runs ~$320K/yr loaded

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Hire Backend Developer

APIs and data models that don't fall over at your next funding round.

Senior hire runs ~$300K/yr loaded

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Hire DevOps Engineer

CI/CD, observability, and on-call that doesn't page you at 2am.

Senior hire runs ~$320K/yr loaded

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Hire Golang Developer

High-throughput services that don't need a rewrite at 10x traffic.

Senior hire runs ~$275K/yr loaded

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