Atlanta
Senior engineering for
Atlanta founders
Atlanta processes about 70% of all US credit card transactions. The fintech bench is real — Mailchimp diaspora, SalesLoft, Calendly. So is the hiring competition: Coca-Cola's tech arm, NCR, a dozen well-funded fintechs all bidding for the same senior engineers. We don't bid. We ship — flat price, two-week first deploy.
Day 0
Your product is live on the web
Day 0
Source code lands in your GitHub
From $0.0K
Flat-price quote, no retainer
Day 0
Your first paying user
Day 0
Your product is live on the web
Day 0
Source code lands in your GitHub
From $0.0K
Flat-price quote, no retainer
Day 0
Your first paying user
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior engineer 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 Atlanta who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why this works for Atlanta
Atlanta's fintech and B2B SaaS hiring market is tighter than the headlines suggest. 60+ days average to fill a senior role. $250K all-in for the kind of engineer who can wire Plaid, Stripe, and ACH rails without breaking compliance.
We do that work weekly. One named senior engineer, Eastern Time, overlap with your Atlanta team and your East Coast investors. Java + Spring for fintech. Next.js + Postgres for SaaS. EDI integrations for supply-chain. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
Atlanta's startup pipeline runs through Georgia Tech more than any single accelerator brand: ATDC has run since 1980, backing 150+ companies at a time with alumni that have raised $3B+ combined, and VentureLab's portfolio has raised $1.5B+ and was ranked the #2 university startup program worldwide. Early checks come from Tech Square Ventures, Panoramic Ventures (named Georgia's most active VC by CB Insights) and Valor Ventures, the South's first woman-led institutional VC fund. What's distinctive here is how corporate Atlanta plugs directly into the startup layer: the Engage program, backed by 14 local corporations including Home Depot and Coca-Cola, has run 50 startups through its accelerator and watched them raise $835M+ in follow-on funding. That's real signal for a fintech or supply-chain founder — but it also means the same corporations are hiring the same senior engineers you need, often at a premium you can't match at seed stage.
Atlanta Tech Village in Buckhead is the connective tissue behind a lot of this — founded by David Cummings, home to 300+ companies, and credited with generating 15,000+ jobs since it opened in 2013. Fintech capital runs deep and specific: TTV Capital, investing exclusively in early-stage fintech since 2000, closed a $250M Fund VI in 2023 and has backed seven companies to unicorn status or IPO, including Atlanta's own Greenlight and Cardlytics. Even Techstars Atlanta reinvented itself here — after Cox Enterprises ended its nine-year corporate sponsorship in 2024, the program relaunched in 2025 as a community-funded 'Season Two,' raised from local backers instead of one corporate check-writer. Georgia Tech's College of Computing, ranked #6 nationally for graduate CS, keeps the pipeline full — Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Coca-Cola all recruit here directly.
Did you know · Atlanta
Roughly 70% of all US credit card transactions process through metro Atlanta. It's the quiet fintech capital.
Time zone
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Eastern Time. We overlap fully with you and your investors at TTV, BIP, and Mosley.
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What you actually get
A working product.
Live in weeks, not quarters.
30-minute call, then a flat-price quote. One named senior engineer from spec to deploy — no hand-offs, no juniors, no "team of three" billed for one person's work. Source code in your GitHub from commit one.
The three builds founders in Atlanta ask for most
Production web apps in 1 to 4 weeks
AI features and LLM integrations
Mobile apps for iOS and Android
Every build ships with
Live production URL
On your domain, day of launch
Your GitHub repo
Code yours from commit 1
Stripe + auth wired
Login, payments, webhooks done
Shared Slack channel
Async updates, same-day replies
Built from Atlanta
Founders here shipped these
Real Atlanta founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.

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Why founders pick
path B in Atlanta
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Hiring in Atlanta
Year-one total
before shipping a line of code
Time to fill
discovery, interviews, offers, onboarding
Retention risk
leaves inside year one · 3-month notice
What's inside the $250,000 year-one cost: Salary $137,500 · Recruiter $40,000 · Benefits $37,500 · Equity $15,000 · Ramp $20,000
From $2.5K.
This week.
Named senior engineer.
One call, one quote, one named engineer. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away at the end clean — no retainer, no notice, nothing held hostage.
Working with us · 9 out of 10 Atlanta founders pick this
What we build in Atlanta
Six things we ship,
all on a flat price
Each one is a focused engagement — one engineer, fixed price, your code from commit one. Pick the closest match and read the city-specific page.
MVP Development in Atlanta
Ship a working v1 in two weeks, not two quarters.
SaaS Development in Atlanta
Multi-tenant, billed, deployable. Not a prototype.
React & Next.js Engineering in Atlanta
Production frontends shipped on a flat price.
Mobile App Development in Atlanta
iOS and Android from one engineer, in your stores in weeks.
E-Commerce Development in Atlanta
Storefronts that convert and checkouts that don't break at scale.
Fractional CTO in Atlanta
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
AI Product Development in Atlanta
LLM features that actually ship to users.
AI-Native Development in Atlanta
Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.
Vibe Code Rescue in Atlanta
Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.
Agency Transfer in Atlanta
Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.
Cloud Engineering in Atlanta
Production cloud infra without the DevOps headcount. CI/CD, observability, secrets management, on-call.
From our blog
How we think about shipping
Long-form on pricing, workflows, why we don't take equity, and the engineering economics of 2026.
Not in Atlanta?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The Atlanta pin is where you are now.
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