Hire Full-Stack Developer · Seattle
Hire a Full-Stack Developer
in Seattle
Frontend, backend, database, deploy — one engineer.
Hiring a full-stack developer in Seattle 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.
Seattle · Full-Stack Developer
Hire local, year 1
~$437K
Base + benefits + payroll tax. 60–90 day search.
Engage us
$5,000+
10–14 days to first deploy.
7d
Start vs 60d hire
0%
Equity, signing, severance risk
The local read
Why hiring a full-stack developer in Seattle is hard
Seattle founders have access to deep technical talent that's mostly busy. The candidates who do interview want AWS comp, or are leaving to start their own thing. Either way, your 90-day hiring cycle becomes 180.
Different math: one named senior engineer plus AI agents, Pacific Time, ships in two weeks. Flat-price quote after a 30-minute call. AWS-native by default — Bedrock, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 — same stack your team already runs. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away clean at the end.
A senior full-stack developer here is a ~$437K 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 · Seattle
Amazon employs more people in Seattle than the next nine largest local employers combined.
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Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
Sectors in Seattle
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 Seattle who need to ship before the next round closes.
Two paths in Seattle
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
~$437Kyear one
One senior full-stack developer in Seattle, 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 Seattle 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.