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Hire Full-Stack Developer · New York

Hire a Full-Stack Developer
in New York

Frontend, backend, database, deploy — one engineer.

Hiring a full-stack developer in New York 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.

Local senior, year 1

$437K all-in

Base + benefits + payroll tax + 90-day hire cycle

Engagement with us

$5,000+

Flat price, 10–14 days to first deploy

Start with a 30-min callSee the MVP Development page

Two paths for full-stack developer work

Hire local in New York, or engage us

Path A · Hire local

~$437K

Year-one outlay for one senior full-stack developer

  • 60–90 day search through recruiters / inbound
  • Vesting equity, signing bonus, relocation if remote
  • One person, full-time, no flexibility on capacity
  • Probation period: 90 days of unknown output
  • If it doesn't work out: severance, recruiting cycle restarts

Path B · Engage Start Matter

From $5,000

Quoted after a 30-minute call

  • 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 — output you can ship to users
  • Hand off cleanly when you hire your full-time team

What we do

The work, concretely

What you'd hand to a salaried full-stack developer — we own end to end on a flat-price engagement.

  • 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'd use

What we'd build with

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLDrizzle / PrismaVercel / AWSTailwind

FAQ

About hiring vs engaging in New York

How fast can you start?

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Most engagements begin within seven days of the first call. There's no recruiter pipeline, no notice period, no relocation timeline.

Is this a full-time replacement?

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No — we're a senior engineer on a flat-price engagement. For most pre-seed and seed-stage products, that ships more than a salaried hire would in the same window. When you outgrow it, we hand off cleanly to the team you hire.

What if I outgrow one engineer?

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We hand off to your hires (the code is yours), stay on as fractional CTO, or both. We've helped 30+ founders make that transition without re-writing.

Who owns the code?

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You do, from commit one. Repo in your GitHub, infra in your cloud account. When you do hire someone, they onboard onto your code, not ours.

Other roles in New York

We also embed as

Full-Stack Developer elsewhere

Same role, other cities

Ready to ship instead of hire?

30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks.

Start the callSee New York overview