Dedicated developers

Hire dedicated developers for your product team

Engineers who join your sprint, not a support queue

Hire dedicated developers who work only on your product, under your technical direction, in your repositories and your sprint cadence. You interview and choose the people. We handle contracts, payroll, equipment and cover, and the code is yours from the first commit.
  • You interview and reject candidates at no cost
  • Flat monthly rate, no recruitment fee
  • Lahore team with agreed daily overlap
Definition

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.
Rates

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 rate

Five 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.
Choosing a model

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.

Comparison of a dedicated team, staff augmentation, a fixed-price project and a time-and-materials engagement, across billing, direction, change handling, commitment, best fit and main risk
ConsiderationDedicated teamStaff augmentationFixed priceTime and materials
How you payFlat monthly rate per engineerFlat monthly rate per roleOne agreed price for an agreed scopeBilled against hours worked
Who directs the workYour technical leadYour technical leadOur delivery managerShared, sprint by sprint
Handling changeReprioritise freely, cost does not moveReprioritise freely, cost does not moveChange requests, renegotiated each timeAbsorbed, but the invoice moves
CommitmentContinuous, with noticeFlexible, role by roleEnds when the scope shipsLow floor, short bursts
Best fitA live product with a roadmap that keeps movingFilling a specific skill gap in an existing teamA well-defined build with a fixed finish lineSpikes, discovery and short pieces
Main riskPaying for capacity if the roadmap stallsNeeds your lead to have time to directScope disputes when reality shiftsHard to forecast a budget
Roles

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
Vetting

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Stage 3: Communication evaluation

    Written and spoken English, tested the way your team really works: async updates, pull request comments and standups.

  4. Stage 4: Project and stack fit

    A check against your product specifically. Someone strong in a different domain is not automatically right for yours.

  5. 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.

Onboarding

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.

  1. 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 definition
  2. Step 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 profiles
  3. Step 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 format
  4. Step 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 one
  5. Step 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 tools
  6. Step 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
Ownership

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.

Proof

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.

Blyn · SaaS platform

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 Blyn
Lunor · Browser extension

Design 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.”
Keegan Kolbe, CEO at Hula

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.

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.

Have a project in mind?
Let's get in touch
We're happy to answer any questions you may have. Reach out to us, and let's discuss how we can help you achieve your goals.
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