Hire Full-Stack Developer · London
Hire a Full-Stack Developer
in London
Frontend, backend, database, deploy — one engineer.
Hiring a full-stack developer in London typically means a senior eng at $250K+ base. We embed as that engineer on a flat-price engagement — frontend, backend, database, infra, deploy — with no coordination overhead across multiple ICs.
London · Full-Stack Developer
Hire local, year 1
~$282K
Base + benefits + payroll tax. 60–90 day search.
Engage us
$5,000+
10–14 days to first deploy.
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Start vs 60d hire
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Equity, signing, severance risk
The local read
Why hiring a full-stack developer in London is hard
London founders have access to deep fintech and gov-tech talent but the hiring cycle is brutal. Senior offers in the City clear £100K base plus equity that competes with Revolut and Wise. Local dev shops mostly serve enterprise — slow procurement, multi-quarter contracts, agency-of-record billing.
Different model: one senior engineer ships your build in two weeks, four-to-five-hour overlap with our working hours, billed in USD. Open Banking via TrueLayer or GoCardless for fintech. Next.js + NestJS + Postgres for SaaS. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
A senior full-stack developer here is a ~$282K year-one outlay after benefits, payroll tax, and the 60–90 day search. We're a $5,000+ flat engagement that starts inside seven days.
Did you know · London
London is the third-largest tech hub on earth — after the Bay Area and Beijing.
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Sectors in London
Why this beats a hire
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior full-stack developer plus AI agents now ships what four engineers used to. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in London who need to ship before the next round closes.
Two paths in London
Hire a full-stack developer,
or engage us
Same outcome, different routes. The local hire path takes 60–90 days and locks $250K+ for year one. We're a flat-price engagement that starts inside seven days.
Path A · Hire local
~$282Kyear one
One senior full-stack developer in London, fully loaded
- ·60–90 day search through recruiters and inbound
- ·Equity, signing bonus, potential relocation
- ·Full-time only — no flexibility on capacity
- ·90-day probation of unknown output
- ·Bad fit means severance and a fresh recruiting cycle
Path B · Engage Start Matter
$5,000+flat
Quoted after a 30-minute call · 10–14 days
- Senior engineer starts inside seven days
- No equity, no signing bonus, no recruiting fee
- Flexible capacity — scope up or down between phases
- First deploy in two weeks — shippable output, not a slide deck
- Hand off cleanly when you hire your team — your code, your repo
The work, concretely
What we'd own day to day
The same scope you'd hand to a salaried full-stack developer, owned end to end on a flat-price engagement. No coordination overhead, no junior-on-the-bench, no estimation theatre.
- End-to-end product ownership — UI, API, DB, infra, observability
- Architectural decisions made in minutes, not multi-week design reviews
- Performance-aware: caching, query plans, image optimization measured
- On-call for the things they shipped — bugs are owned, not handed off
- Documentation that the next hire can read and ship from
Stack we use
Defaults — we deviate when the project demands it, not because something is fashionable.
Full-Stack Developer work we've shipped
Real founders, real shipped product
Instead of hiring one full-stack developer who needs to ramp, you get senior work like this — from founders in London we've actually shipped with.
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Ship instead of hire.
30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks. No equity ask, no notice period, no recruiting fee.