Miami
Senior engineering for
Miami founders
Miami's tech population grew 38% from 2020. Solana, Base, LatAm fintech, real-estate-tech — deal flow is real but the engineering bench is thin. 90+ day hiring cycles in a market where Web3 startups still bid at crypto-bull rates. We work outside that. Flat-price quote, 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 Miami who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why this works for Miami
Miami's pre-seed deal count passed LA and Boston in Q1 2026. The hiring market hasn't caught up. Local agencies are split between Web3 specialty shops billing hourly and general consultancies feeding logistics companies. Neither ships venture-grade product on a seed timeline.
We do. One named senior engineer, Eastern Time, builds on Solana, Base, or whatever stack your investor expects. Bilingual i18n by default for LatAm products. Bridge or Dinari for stablecoin rails. Flat-price quote in 24 hours after a discovery call. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
Miami's accelerator scene has real backing now — 500 Global runs an 8-week Growth Program here, and Endeavor Miami (backed by JPMorgan Chase) runs cohort-based programs for South Florida founders. Capital comes from Fuel Venture Capital (~$550M AUM across a $300M Flagship Fund II), Krillion Ventures and TheVentureCity. The numbers back up the hype: Miami-area startups raised $4.13B across 376 deals in 2025, up 49% from 2024, with fintech ($691M) and Web3 ($243M) both posting real volume in the first half alone. The clearest signal of where the city is headed: Palantir moved its global headquarters from Denver to Aventura, just north of Miami, in February 2026. That kind of anchor tenant pulls senior engineering talent with it — good for the ecosystem's long-term depth, but one more well-funded competitor bidding for the hires you need right now.
Miami's corporate anchor tenants got a lot more concrete in 2025-2026: Citadel and Citadel Securities broke ground on a $2.5B, 1.7-million-square-foot Brickell headquarters tower in March 2026, and both Amazon and Google expanded their Miami offices in the same window — Amazon to roughly 76,000 sq ft in Wynwood, Google to about 45,000 sq ft on Brickell Avenue, more than quadrupling its prior footprint. eMerge Americas acquired Miami AI Hub in mid-2025 and launched the Gold Coast Tech Accelerator two months later, running 8-week fintech and dual-use/defense tracks. The talent pipeline is catching up too — Miami Tech Works has graduated 15,000+ students into tech-adjacent roles since 2021 through apprenticeships with Miami Dade College, FIU and the University of Miami. That's real momentum, and also real competition for the same senior engineers you're trying to hire.
Did you know · Miami
Miami's tech population grew roughly 38% from 2020 — the fastest of any major US metro.
Time zone
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Eastern Time. We overlap with your team in Wynwood, your VCs at Founders Fund Miami, and the LatAm customers your bilingual founder needs.
Sectors we work in here
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 Miami 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
The math
Why founders pick
path B in Miami
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Hiring in Miami
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 $270,000 year-one cost: Salary $148,500 · Recruiter $43,200 · Benefits $40,500 · Equity $16,200 · Ramp $21,600
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 Miami founders pick this
What we build in Miami
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 Miami
Ship a working v1 in two weeks, not two quarters.
SaaS Development in Miami
Multi-tenant, billed, deployable. Not a prototype.
React & Next.js Engineering in Miami
Production frontends shipped on a flat price.
Mobile App Development in Miami
iOS and Android from one engineer, in your stores in weeks.
E-Commerce Development in Miami
Storefronts that convert and checkouts that don't break at scale.
Fractional CTO in Miami
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
AI Product Development in Miami
LLM features that actually ship to users.
AI-Native Development in Miami
Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.
Vibe Code Rescue in Miami
Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.
Agency Transfer in Miami
Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.
Cloud Engineering in Miami
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 Miami?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The Miami pin is where you are now.
Got a question about working from Miami?
Ask me anything.
Right now.
Real chat. Real answers from our FAQ. If I don't have a clean match, I'll email you back within a day.
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30-minute discovery. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one. No retainer.