Hire Mobile App Developer · London
Hire a Mobile App Developer
in London
iOS + Android from one engineer. TestFlight in three weeks.
Looking to hire a mobile app developer in London? RN seniors in London are $220–300K. We ship both stores on a single flat-price engagement — usually React Native via Expo, native when the use case calls for it.
London · Mobile App Developer
Hire local, year 1
~$232K
Base + benefits + payroll tax. 60–90 day search.
Engage us
$10,000+
3–6 weeks to TestFlight 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 mobile app 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 mobile app developer here is a ~$232K year-one outlay after benefits, payroll tax, and the 60–90 day search. We're a $10,000+ 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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GMT/BST. We overlap with your morning, you ship by your evening. Async workflow built for the gap.
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Why this beats a hire
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior mobile app 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 mobile app 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
~$232Kyear one
One senior mobile app 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
$10,000+flat
Quoted after a 30-minute call · 3–6 weeks to TestFlight
- 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 mobile app developer, owned end to end on a flat-price engagement. No coordination overhead, no junior-on-the-bench, no estimation theatre.
- Cross-platform RN with Expo prebuild for native modules when needed
- Push notifications, deep links, OTA updates via Expo Updates
- Store submission (Apple Developer + Play Console) handled end to end
- Offline-first storage where it matters (TanStack Query persist or RxDB)
- Crash reporting, analytics, performance instrumentation wired correctly
Stack we use
Defaults — we deviate when the project demands it, not because something is fashionable.
Mobile App Developer work we've shipped
Real founders, real shipped product
Instead of hiring one mobile app developer who needs to ramp, you get senior work like this — from founders in London we've actually shipped with.
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