Hire Mobile App Developer · New York
Hire a Mobile App Developer
in New York
iOS + Android from one engineer. TestFlight in three weeks.
Looking to hire a mobile app developer in New York? RN seniors in New York 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.
New York · Mobile App Developer
Hire local, year 1
~$359K
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 New York is hard
NYC founders have a worse hiring problem than the funding headlines suggest. Half your top engineering candidates are weighing your seed offer against a $400K Google package. The dev shops in town are agency-of-record operations billing hourly, or staffing shops shoveling juniors into your team.
We're neither. One named senior engineer owns the build end-to-end. Flat price quoted after a 30-minute call. Eastern Time, same as your General Catalyst partner and your midtown customers. When we finish, the code is in your GitHub and the contract is over. No retainer.
A senior mobile app developer here is a ~$359K 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 · New York
NYC has roughly 25,000 active tech startups, second only to the Bay Area in the US.
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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 New York who need to ship before the next round closes.
Two paths in New York
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
~$359Kyear one
One senior mobile app developer in New York, 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 New York we've actually shipped with.
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Long-form on pricing, AI-native engineering, why we don't take equity, and what shipping looks like in 2026.
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