HIRE A DEVELOPER · CLIENT STORY
Hire a Developer and Save $42,000 a Year
A 3-month dev problem, fixed in under a week. Seth’s team hired a developer through HireUA after its old agency spent three months stuck on one custom integration.
4–5 DaysTo fix what the agency couldn’t in 3 months
7–8Qualified candidates, all passed the test task
Nearly 3×Development efficiency, Seth’s estimate
Developer Client Results
Two More Developer Hires.
Charlie AI
More than a dozen remote developers hired through HireUA over four years.
$250K a year
Developer payroll savings
Mid- to Senior-Level Developers
Charlie AI keeps about four HireUA developers on the team at a time.
At least 70%
Lower cost than a local UK hire
Junior Front-End Developer
David Jacob needed a junior front-end developer so his CTO could stop doing front-end work. Five months in, the developer was also training on back-end work.
The Problem
Hiring a Developer Shouldn’t Be a Second Job
- The backlog keeps growing.
- Your CTO is still fixing front-end bugs instead of building the product.
- The agency you pay every month says the fix is almost done. It has been saying that for weeks.
- You post a job and get a pile of applications. Too many read like ChatGPT wrote them. And if you don’t write code yourself, you can’t tell who can actually ship.
- So you hire the one who interviews well, and find out a month later that he can’t do the work.
Fast, good, cheap. Pick two.
That’s the rule most companies hire by.
Global hiring breaks it. But only if someone knows what good looks like.
4–5 days
to fix what an agency couldn’t in 3 months
Seth’s team
$250K
a year in developer payroll savings
Charlie AI, 10+ developers over four years
70%+
lower cost than a local UK hire
David Jacob’s junior front-end developer
Why HireUA
You Want a Developer. Not Another Vendor.
Every way of hiring a developer has a trade-off. Here’s where each one usually breaks.
Alternative
- Freelance marketplaces. You get proposals, then do the vetting yourself. That’s hard when you don’t write code.
- Dev shops and agencies. You pay a monthly fee and don’t always know who is writing your code, or whether it’s being passed along.
- Local hiring. Charlie AI put US senior developers at $10K–$15K a month, minimum.
- One-country agencies. They sell the market they have. If your developer isn’t there, you get whoever is.
HireUA
- Freelance marketplaces. We source and screen against the job. You interview the finalists and can run your own technical test.
- Dev shops and agencies. You hire one developer who joins your team and works with you directly.
- Local hiring. A salary that buys an average developer in one city can buy a great one somewhere else.
- One-country agencies. We don’t sell a country. We start with the role, then choose the market, from 40+ countries.
1,100+ placements. One goal: the right person in the right seat at the right cost.
Developer Types We Fill
One Page. Every Kind of Developer.
Each card opens our hiring guide for that role.
SOFTWARE
Full-Stack Developer
Builds your product end to end: APIs, databases, user interfaces and the deploys in between.
Read the hiring guide →
SOFTWARE
Front-End Developer
Builds fast, responsive interfaces, integrates APIs and keeps your design system in shape.
Read the hiring guide →
SOFTWARE
Back-End Developer
Builds the server-side systems, databases and APIs your product runs on.
Read the hiring guide →
WEBSITES & STORES
Shopify Developer
Builds and customizes Shopify stores, themes and app integrations, and keeps the store fast.
Read the hiring guide →
WEBSITES & STORES
Webflow & WordPress Developer
Turns designs into fast websites your team can manage, and keeps them updated and secure.
Read the hiring guide →
AI & AUTOMATION
AI Engineer
Builds AI applications and agents, integrates LLM APIs and automates workflows.
Start an AI search →
How We Screen
We Hire for Ability, Not Logos.
01
Start With the Outcome
What should this developer ship, and which requirements are real? Every extra must-have costs time, money or candidates.
02
Search the Live Market
We headhunt for your role now, instead of selling whoever happens to be sitting in a database.
03
Read the Whole Trail
Profile, CV, response time, and whether they can explain what they built. The application is already part of the interview.
04
You Make the Call
You interview the finalists and can run your own technical test. Seth’s team did; every candidate passed it.
A good developer can learn your stack. We won’t reject one because their resume shows a different logo.
Developer Pay
What Does a Remote Developer Cost?
Typical monthly pay for a full-time developer, from our 2026 Pricing Guide. This is what the developer earns, not HireUA’s fee.
Get the 2026 hiring guide
Roles, typical pay ranges and the best regions to hire from, all in one free PDF.
Where We Recruit
Great Developers Aren’t Limited to One Country
HireUA recruits talent from 40+ countries. We start with the role, then pick the market.
01
Eastern Europe
Our Pricing Guide names Eastern Europe as the best region for every developer type above. Elayne’s engineer was sourced there. We’ve placed people from 24 countries in the region, including Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Serbia.
02
Latin America
We’ve placed people from 14 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. Worth a look when your team needs working hours that overlap with the Americas.
03
Middle East
Another market we search when the role calls for it, for example Arabic-language products or teams that want Gulf working hours. We start with the role, then decide whether the region fits.
Other markets are in scope when the role calls for it. We don’t sell geography. We use it.
Process
How Hiring a Developer Works
01
Define the Seat
Tell us what the developer should own, your stack, and what must be true versus nice to have.
02
Pick the Market
We choose where to search based on the role, your budget and the working hours you need.
03
Meet Your Candidates
We headhunt and screen, then present qualified candidates within 5 days of kickoff.
04
Interview and Hire
You interview, test and decide. Then choose Monthly Hire or Direct Hire.
What Clients Say
In Their Own Words. On Camera.
Matias Pirelli
Founder, Email Engineers
“You got the job done that they couldn’t do in 4 months. You did it in 2 weeks.”
Zach
Founder, ZHS Ecom · $500K saved across 7 hires
“It’s such a simple and straightforward process. You get people who are already qualified, they’re already vetted, they have a good idea of what you’re looking for… you just get calls on your calendar.”
Max Alexander
Founder
“She has evolved into a 10-out-of-10 perfect employee. You can’t do much better than that.”
Ready when you are
Meet vetted developers in 5 days.
Book a call, tell us the role, and we’ll show you vetted candidates within 5 days of kickoff.
Vetted candidates · Monthly Hire or Direct Hire
Questions
Developer Hiring FAQs
How much does it cost to hire a remote developer?
It depends on the role. In our 2026 Pricing Guide, full-stack developers typically earn $4,000–$5,000 a month, front-end $3,000–$4,000, back-end $3,500–$4,500 and AI engineers $4,500–$6,000. That’s the developer’s pay, not our fee.
What kinds of developers do you recruit?
Full-stack, front-end, back-end, Shopify, Webflow and WordPress developers, and AI engineers. We also recruit specialists such as React, Python and PHP developers and QA engineers.
How quickly can I meet candidates?
We present qualified candidates within 5 days of kickoff. The total time to hire depends on how fast you interview and decide.
How do you screen developers if I’m not technical?
We screen against the job, not a keyword list, and present finalists for you to interview. Seth’s team had no coders on it. They gave every candidate a test task, and every candidate HireUA presented completed it.
Can I give candidates a technical test?
Yes. You interview the finalists and decide who to hire, so you can add your own test task or technical interview. Seth’s team did exactly that.
Where do your developers come from?
HireUA recruits talent from 40+ countries. Our Pricing Guide names Eastern Europe as the best region for developers. We’ve also placed people from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, and we choose the market for each role.
Do you only recruit in Ukraine?
No. HireUA started in Ukraine, as ExecVA in 2021, and became HireUA in 2022. Today we recruit talent from 40+ countries.
Is hiring a developer through HireUA better than using a dev shop?
It’s a different model. You get one dedicated developer who works with you directly. Seth’s brand paid about the same per month as its previous agency and estimated its development efficiency went up nearly 3×.
Can I hire a junior developer?
Yes. Maility hired a junior front-end developer through HireUA to take front-end work off its CTO. He later started training on back-end work.
Can you help us build a whole development team?
Yes. Charlie AI has hired more than a dozen developers through HireUA over four years. For larger teams we also offer recruitment process outsourcing for a role or a whole department.
Do you recruit AI engineers?
Yes. AI engineers build AI applications and agents, integrate LLM APIs and automate workflows. Our Pricing Guide puts their pay at $4,500–$6,000 a month.
Will the developer work my hours?
Working hours are part of defining the role. Tell us how much overlap your team needs, and we’ll use it to decide where to recruit.
What’s the difference between Monthly Hire and Direct Hire?
With Monthly Hire, you pay HireUA, and we pay and administer your developer, including payroll and compliance. With Direct Hire, you employ the developer directly and pay a placement fee of 15% of annual salary, with a $3,000 minimum.
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The Right Developer. The Right Seat. The Right Cost.
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll present qualified candidates within 5 days of kickoff.