Hire Mobile App Developer · Seattle
Hire a Mobile App Developer
in Seattle
iOS + Android from one engineer. TestFlight in three weeks.
Looking to hire a mobile app developer in Seattle? RN seniors in Seattle 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.
Seattle · 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 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 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 · Seattle
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Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
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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 Seattle who need to ship before the next round closes.
Two paths in Seattle
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 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
$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 Seattle we've actually shipped with.
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30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks. No equity ask, no notice period, no recruiting fee.