Hire dedicated developers for your product team
Engineers who join your sprint, not a support queue
- Role definedStack, seniority, overlap
- Engineers matchedNamed profiles, real histories
- You evaluateYour interview, your call
- In your sprintYour repo, your review standards
- You interview and reject candidates at no cost
- Flat monthly rate, no recruitment fee
- Lahore team with agreed daily overlap
What a dedicated developer actually is
An engineer assigned to your product full time, for a continuous engagement, working under your direction rather than against a fixed scope handed to a vendor.
- Not a freelancer
- One engineer, one product, one backlog. No competing clients dividing the week and no gap when their next contract starts elsewhere.
- Not an outsourced project
- You keep the roadmap, the priorities and the code reviews. Nobody hands you a finished deliverable and disappears.
- Not a headcount you employ
- No recruitment cycle, no payroll, no benefits administration and no notice-period risk carried on your side.
What you are paying for, and what changes the number
Most vendors will not put anything near this question in public. We can at least be straight about how the rate is built, what it covers and what moves it, so the conversation starts from the same place.
One flat monthly rate per engineer
Not per ticket, not per hour of overtime, and not a percentage of a salary you never see.
Included
- The engineer's time, full time on your product
- Equipment, payroll, benefits and leave
- Cover during absence, and replacement if the fit is wrong
- Account management and a single point of contact
- Contracts, NDA and IP assignment
Not included
- Cloud and hosting spend, billed to your accounts
- Third-party licences and paid APIs
- Hardware you specifically require beyond a standard setup
- Travel, if you ever ask for it
Those stay on your accounts on purpose. You own them, and we do not mark them up.
We put a written rate and proposal in front of you once we understand the role, the scope and the seniority required.
Get your exact rateFive things change the rate
- Seniority
- A lead who sets standards and reviews other engineers costs more than a mid-level engineer shipping inside them.
- Technology and specialisation
- Common web and backend stacks sit lower. Niche, regulated or heavily specialised work sits higher.
- Engagement length
- A rolling short commitment prices differently to a long, open-ended one.
- Timezone and overlap
- A couple of hours of daily overlap with your team costs less than most of your working day.
- One engineer or a team
- A single hire and a full dedicated team with its own lead are priced differently.
Dedicated team, staff augmentation, fixed price or time and materials
The commercial shape of each agreement, side by side. For the day-to-day mechanics of how our engineers integrate and scale, the IT staff augmentation page goes deeper.
| Consideration | Dedicated team | Staff augmentation | Fixed price | Time and materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Flat monthly rate per engineer | Flat monthly rate per role | One agreed price for an agreed scope | Billed against hours worked |
| Who directs the work | Your technical lead | Your technical lead | Our delivery manager | Shared, sprint by sprint |
| Handling change | Reprioritise freely, cost does not move | Reprioritise freely, cost does not move | Change requests, renegotiated each time | Absorbed, but the invoice moves |
| Commitment | Continuous, with notice | Flexible, role by role | Ends when the scope ships | Low floor, short bursts |
| Best fit | A live product with a roadmap that keeps moving | Filling a specific skill gap in an existing team | A well-defined build with a fixed finish line | Spikes, discovery and short pieces |
| Main risk | Paying for capacity if the roadmap stalls | Needs your lead to have time to direct | Scope disputes when reality shifts | Hard to forecast a budget |
Roles and stacks you can hire for
You hire by role and technology, not from a general pool. If what you need is not here, ask, and we will tell you honestly whether we can cover it.
Web developers
Product features, dashboards, integrations and the APIs underneath them.
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Node.js
- Python
- Laravel
Mobile developers
Cross-platform builds, plus native Android and iOS where the product needs it.
- Flutter
- Kotlin
- Swift
QA and test automation
Regression suites, release sign-off and the test plan behind them.
- Manual QA
- Automation
- API testing
DevOps and cloud engineers
Pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability and cost control.
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Terraform
AI engineers
Retrieval, evaluation and agent work that ships into a real product.
- LLM APIs
- RAG
- Agents
- Vector databases
UI/UX designers
Working inside your product rhythm rather than delivering static files.
- Product design
- Design systems
- Prototyping
What happens before a CV reaches you
You should never be the first technical filter. Every profile you see has been through the same five stages.
Stage 1: Experience and profile review
We read the history behind the CV: what they actually built, at what scale, and how long they stayed to maintain it.
Stage 2: Technical assessment for the role
An assessment matched to the work itself, in the stack the role uses. A backend hire is not screened with a frontend puzzle.
Stage 3: Communication evaluation
Written and spoken English, tested the way your team really works: async updates, pull request comments and standups.
Stage 4: Project and stack fit
A check against your product specifically. Someone strong in a different domain is not automatically right for yours.
Stage 5: Your interview and final selection
You interview in your own format and make the call. Reject anyone at no cost and we go back and match again.
From first call to active contribution
The sequence every engagement follows. We commit to dates in writing in the proposal, once we know the role, rather than publishing a headline number that would not hold for every hire.
Step 1: Requirements and role definition
One call about the stack, the seniority, the overlap hours and the work already waiting in your backlog.Written role definitionStep 2: Engineer matching
We match against the role rather than filling the seat, drawing on the profiles closest to your product and technology.Named candidate profilesStep 3: Technical and client evaluation
Our assessment happens before you see anyone. You then run your own interview, in your own format.Your interview, your formatStep 4: Selection and agreement
You choose. Reject anyone at no cost and we match again. Contracts, NDA and IP assignment are completed on our side.IP assigned from commit oneStep 5: Onboarding into your workflow
Repository, issue tracker, chat and CI access on your side. Your standards, your review process, your definition of done.Working in your toolsStep 6: First sprint and active contribution
Your engineer picks up a real ticket and opens a pull request against your review standards, not a warm-up task.Shipping in your sprint
What you own, and what happens when it ends
Competing pages raise the question of who owns the code and then save the answer for the sales call. It is a fair question and it belongs in public.
The code is yours from the first commit
Work goes into repositories you own and control, under your accounts, not ours. Intellectual property is assigned as work is delivered, not on final payment, so there is never a point where finished work sits outside your ownership.
Confidentiality before access
An NDA is signed before anyone is given a login. It covers your product, your data and everything discussed while scoping the role.
Ending is written down in advance
Notice periods, handover documentation and a walkthrough with whoever picks the work up next are in the agreement from the start. Ending an engagement should never strand a codebase.
The engineers you hire are the ones who ship our own products
Blyn and Lunor are our products, not client case studies. They are public, so you can go and use them rather than take our word for what the team can build.
One digital identity across a website, a BioCard and an email signature
A multi-product SaaS with authentication, subscription billing, custom domains, data sync, lead capture and analytics behind a single dashboard. Designed, built and operated by our team.
How we built BlynDesign intelligence extracted from any live website
Design tokens, colour and type scales, WCAG contrast checks, Tailwind export and full-page capture. Published in the Chrome Web Store and maintained by the same engineers.
Explore Lunor“Sync Scrum supported us excellently after a key team member resigned, delivering a well-designed solution ahead of schedule, communicating reliably, and saving a client demo, ensuring business continuity.”
When hiring a dedicated developer is the wrong call
The scope is genuinely fixed
If you know exactly what to build and it ends when it ships, a fixed-price project will cost you less and worry you less.
Nobody is free to direct the work
A dedicated developer needs someone setting priorities and reviewing code on your side. Without that, hand the whole build over instead.
The engagement would be very short
Matching, interviewing and onboarding take real time. Over a short enough window you would spend most of it getting started.
If one of those describes you, say so on the first call. We will point you at the model that fits, including the ones we do not sell.
Questions about hiring dedicated developers
The things buyers ask before booking a call, answered here rather than on it.
How much does it cost to hire dedicated developers?
A dedicated developer is billed as a flat monthly rate per engineer, not per ticket and not per hour of overtime. That rate covers the engineer, their equipment, payroll, benefits, replacement cover and the account management around them, so there is no separate recruitment fee and no employer overhead on your side. Five things move the number: seniority, how specialised the technology is, how long the engagement runs, how many hours of overlap with your timezone you need, and whether you are hiring one engineer or a larger dedicated team. We put a written rate in front of you once we understand the role, the scope and the seniority required.
How do I hire dedicated developers?
Start with a call about the roles, the stack and the work waiting in the backlog. We put a written proposal in front of you covering the team shape, the rate and the start date. You then interview real, named candidates yourself, and you can reject any of them at no cost. Once you pick, we handle contracts and equipment while your lead sets up repository, tracker and chat access. Your engineer then joins your standups and picks up real work in your next sprint.
What is the difference between a dedicated developer and staff augmentation?
They describe the same commercial relationship from two different angles. Staff augmentation is the model: engineers work under your direction, in your tools and your process, while we handle employment and administration. Hiring a dedicated developer is the decision you actually make inside that model, choosing a specific person, for a specific role, for a continuous engagement rather than a fixed project. If you want the mechanics of how our engineers integrate, scale and hand over, read the IT staff augmentation page. If you want to know what a developer costs and how we vet them, stay here.
Can I hire dedicated Android or web developers specifically?
Yes. You hire by role and stack, not by a generic developer pool. For web that means React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js, Python, Laravel and the databases behind them. For mobile that means Flutter for cross-platform work, plus native Android in Kotlin and native iOS in Swift. We also staff QA and test automation, DevOps and cloud engineers on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, UI/UX designers, data engineers and AI engineers working with LLM APIs. If the stack you need is not on that list, ask. We will tell you honestly whether we can cover it rather than putting a general developer in the seat.
How quickly can a dedicated developer start?
It depends on the role, and we would rather tell you honestly than quote a headline number we cannot hold. Common web and backend stacks move fastest because those are the profiles we work with most. Specialised skills, senior or lead roles, strict compliance requirements and larger teams all take longer, because matching the right person matters more than filling the seat quickly. Once we understand the role we commit to a start date in writing as part of the proposal. If you are working to a fixed deadline, say so on the first call and we will tell you straight away whether it is realistic.
Who owns the code and the IP?
You do, from the first commit. Work is committed to repositories you own and control, under your accounts, not ours. The agreement assigns intellectual property to you as work is delivered, rather than on final payment or at the end of the engagement, so there is no point where finished work sits outside your ownership. Confidentiality is covered by an NDA signed before any access is granted. Notice periods and handover obligations are written into the contract, including documentation and a walkthrough with whoever picks the work up next, so ending an engagement does not strand the codebase.
Other ways to work with SyncScrum
If a dedicated developer is not the right shape, one of these usually is.
The engagement model behind a dedicated developer: how our engineers integrate with your tools and sprints, how the team scales, and how handover works.
When you would rather hand over the whole build than manage engineers: discovery, architecture, engineering, QA and deployment as a managed delivery.
A focused first version delivered as a project, useful before you commit to the size and shape of a long-running team.
Tell us the role you need and what it will pick up first.
A consultation is free. You get a written rate, a realistic start date, and an honest answer on whether this is even the right model for you.
