Hire Dedicated Developers Who Work as Part of Your Team

Companies hire dedicated developers when the roadmap is clear but the team is too small to ship it. A full-time hire can take months to find, onboard and trust, and a project agency wants a fixed scope that your roadmap does not have. A dedicated developer from 95 Solutions sits between the two: one named person who works on your product every day, inside your process, while we carry the employment, the equipment and the quality review.

This page covers the roles we place, how the first month runs, how access and code ownership work, and the questions you should ask any provider before you sign. If you are still deciding between augmentation and a managed project, start with our overview of IT staff augmentation.

Dedicated Developers You Can Hire

Most teams that hire dedicated software developers from us book them full-time. Part-time and hourly setups work for maintenance queues, and for teams that need a senior developer to review and unblock others rather than write every line.

Common requests by stack

• Hire dedicated web developers for a web app or marketing site: usually the PHP and Laravel or React and Next.js roles above, matched to your codebase.
• Hire dedicated WordPress developers when a WordPress or WooCommerce site needs custom plugins, theme changes and security updates every month rather than once.
• Hire dedicated ReactJS developers for front ends built on React or Next.js, including dashboards and component libraries shared across products.
• Hire dedicated mobile app developers for React Native or Flutter apps that share an API with your web product. Full app builds from scratch run through our mobile app development team.
• Hire dedicated iOS developers for Swift and SwiftUI work on an existing iPhone app, or for the native modules a cross-platform app needs. New native builds are scoped by our iOS app development team.

What Is Included When You Hire Dedicated Developers From Us

How to Hire Dedicated Developers

To hire dedicated developers, define the work, approve a written role brief, meet the proposed developer, then onboard them on small real tickets before larger ones. Here is how each step runs with us.

1. Tell us about the work (day 1). On a short call we cover your stack, your backlog, your team's working hours and how you run delivery. We also ask for two or three real tickets, because they tell us more about the level you need than a job description does.
2. Approve the role brief (within 2 business days). We send a one-page brief: skills, seniority, hours, overlap window, tools, access list and first tasks. Nothing moves until you have signed it off.
3. Meet the developer (usually 1 to 2 weeks after the brief). We propose a developer whose recent work matches your stack. You meet them on a video call with your technical lead, ask whatever you want and look at code they have written. If it does not feel right, we propose someone else.
4. Onboard (first week of work). You create their accounts, and they set up the project locally, read the codebase and ship a first small change through your review process. Setup notes they write go into your repository, not ours.
5. Settle into the rhythm (weeks 2 to 4). From week two they work the board like any team member. On our side a senior lead reviews samples of their work, watches for blockers and covers vacations.
6. Review monthly (end of each month). Each month we look at what shipped, what slipped and why, with you. That is when you add hours, add a second developer or scale down.

How a Dedicated Developer Works Day to Day

A dedicated developer should feel like a colleague, not a vendor. In practice that means:

• Standups or async updates in your channel every working day: what shipped, what is next, what is blocked.
• Small pull requests with a clear description, linked to the ticket, so your reviewers are not facing a thousand-line diff on a Friday.
• Tests where your codebase has them, and a note in the pull request when a change touches code with no coverage.
• Time logged against tickets in your board or ours, so you can see where hours go without asking.
• Documentation as they go: setup steps, environment variables, deployment notes and the reasons behind non-obvious decisions.

When you hire dedicated remote developers, the working window matters more than the location, so it is agreed in the role brief. Our hours overlap UK business hours and the full US business day, so a US team gets its developer online for standups, pairing and quick questions without evening calls.

One Dedicated Developer or a Dedicated Team of Developers?

One dedicated developer suits a clear backlog in a single stack with a lead who reviews the work. A dedicated team of developers suits a roadmap that spans front end, back end and mobile, or a deadline one person cannot meet. Teams need more coordination: someone has to split tickets, review each other's code and keep shared context. When you hire a dedicated development team from us, we keep it to two or three people who report through one lead on your side, and we usually start with one developer, then add a second once the first understands the codebase. That way the second person learns from a colleague rather than from scratch.

Dedicated Developers vs In-House Hires vs Freelancers

An in-house hire is still the right answer for a role at the center of your product for years. Dedicated developers fill the gap while you hire, or replace hiring when the need is real but the headcount is not. Our article on staff augmentation vs outsourcing compares the wider options.

What You Get Each Month From Your Dedicated Developers

• Merged pull requests in your repository, each linked to a ticket, with tests where your codebase has them.
• Daily standup notes or async updates in your channel.
• A monthly summary: tickets shipped, tickets carried over and why, hours by area, and risks spotted in the codebase.
• Updated setup and deployment notes, so the next developer (ours or yours) can start faster.

What success looks like with a dedicated developer

By the end of month one, a good dedicated developer is shipping tickets of normal size through your review without hand-holding. By month three, they should be suggesting fixes to slow tests, flaky deploys or messy code they have found, and your lead should spend less time reviewing their work, not more. We check these signals at each monthly review, and if they are missing we change something before you ask.

Mistakes Companies Make When They Hire Dedicated Developers

• No one owns priorities. A developer without a product owner fills time with whatever seems useful. One person on your side should set the order of the board each week.
• Starting with the hardest ticket. A large, vague first task hides whether the developer is struggling with the codebase or the requirement. Small real tickets first.
• Sharing logins. Shared accounts make it impossible to see who changed what, and to remove access cleanly later.
• Skipping code review because the developer is "senior". Review is how knowledge spreads and mistakes get caught, whoever wrote the code.
• Judging on hours instead of output. Logged hours are useful context, but shipped and stable work is the measure.

Security, Access and Code Ownership

When you hire dedicated developers from outside the company, the real risk is not the code. It is access that never gets cleaned up. We work to a simple set of rules:

• Every developer gets their own named accounts on your systems. No shared logins, no passwords sent in chat.
• Access is least privilege: staging and development first, production only where the role needs it and you approve it.
• Two-factor authentication is on for every account, and secrets live in your password manager or secret store.
• All code is committed to your repository from the first day. Nothing is built in a private repository and "delivered later".
• We sign your NDA and IP assignment terms, or provide ours, before access is granted.
• At the end of an engagement we give you an offboarding checklist of every system the developer touched, so you can revoke access in one pass.

Dedicated Developer Tech Stack

Why Hire Dedicated Developers From 95 Solutions

• Developers who ship our own products. Our team built the custom PHP and SQLite CMS behind this website and Boiler Decoder, and co-builds the AM Jarvis SaaS suite. The developers we place write production code that real users depend on.
• Senior oversight from a technical founder. Mustafa holds a BS in Computer Science and has 11+ years in digital marketing. He reviews every placement, so you get someone who checks the work, not only the timesheet.
• Developers who understand the business side. Because we also run SEO, ads and analytics, our developers know why a tracking event, a page speed fix or a schema change matters to revenue.
• You own the code and accounts. Everything lives in your repository and your cloud accounts from day one.
• US contract, USD billing, short terms. Contracts and invoices come from our US LLC, and you can scale at each monthly review once the minimum term is complete.

Who Our Dedicated Developers Suit

A good fit

• Startups and SaaS companies with a technical lead and a roadmap that outpaces the team
• Ecommerce brands with ongoing development needs on Shopify, WooCommerce or a custom stack
• Agencies that need a developer embedded with their team for several months
• Companies replacing a developer who left, while they recruit or instead of recruiting

Probably not a fit

• You have no one who can review code or set priorities (a managed project with our software development team fits better)
• You need a single feature built once, with a fixed price and scope (see custom software development)
• The role requires security clearance or on-site presence

Questions to Ask Before You Hire Dedicated Developers Anywhere

Whether you hire through us or someone else, these questions separate a real dedicated developer from a name on a rotating bench:

1. Will I meet the actual developer before they start? If the provider will not introduce the person, you are buying a slot, not a developer.
2. Is the developer on my account only? Some providers split one developer across several clients and bill each as dedicated.
3. Where does the code live? The only good answer is your repository, from the first commit.
4. What happens when they are sick or on vacation? Ask who covers, how they get context and whether you pay for their ramp-up.
5. Who reviews their work on the provider's side? If the answer is nobody, you are the only quality check.
6. How do I end the arrangement? Notice periods, handover and access removal should be written down before you start.

Dedicated Developer Pricing

Dedicated developers are billed as a monthly rate per person based on seniority, with a senior developer rate for architecture, review and lead work, and an hourly option for smaller queues. What moves the cost is seniority, the number of developers, full-time versus part-time hours, and how much overlap with your working day the role needs. Invoices are in USD from our US LLC, and the minimum term is short. See the current plans below.

Need a pair of developers, a part-time arrangement or a developer plus a marketer? Contact us with your stack and we will send a custom quote.

If your work is mainly for agency clients, our white label web development service is set up for that, with unbranded delivery under your name.

Your Next Step to Hire Dedicated Developers

Send us your stack, a rough description of the backlog and two or three real tickets. We reply within one business day, hold a short call with your technical lead, and send a written role brief for you to approve. Once you sign it off, we propose a developer for you to interview. Tell us about the role, or call or WhatsApp us from the contact page if that is quicker.