Hire Software Developers Without the Six-Month Search
The traditional way to hire software developers is broken: 3–6 month searches, $30k+ recruiter fees, and a one-in-three chance the hire doesn't work out anyway. Meanwhile the roadmap doesn't wait. Aizecs replaces that grind with embedded staffing — vetted senior engineers from India, matched to your stack, interviewing with you inside 48 hours.
48h
From call to candidates
<1 in 20
Vetting acceptance rate
$22/hr
Rates starting from
$0
Recruiter or placement fees
Transparent Pricing
Transparent Pricing by Seniority Band
No recruiter fees, no placement percentages, no rate reveal held hostage to a sales call. Here is exactly what it costs to hire software developers through Aizecs versus the alternatives.
| Role / Seniority | Aizecs (India) | Toptal / Turing | Upwork Freelancers | US In-House |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Level Engineer (3–5 yrs) | $22–$40/hr | $60–$120/hr | $18–$39/hr | $80–$120/hr |
| Senior Engineer (5–8 yrs) | $38–$65/hr | $90–$150/hr | $25–$50/hr | $100–$160/hr |
| Staff / Architect (8+ yrs) | $45–$85/hr | $120–$200+/hr | $40–$80/hr | $140–$200+/hr |
| AI / ML Specialist | $45–$80/hr | $90–$180/hr | $40–$100/hr | $150–$250/hr |
Hourly bill rates for dedicated, full-time developers (2025–26 benchmarks). Upwork columns show unvetted freelance medians for project engagements. US in-house reflects fully loaded cost — salary, benefits, taxes, and overhead.
How It Works
Hiring Compressed From Months Into Two Weeks
We collapsed the sourcing-screening-negotiating pipeline into four steps most clients finish inside ten business days.
Brief us on the gap
One 30-minute call covering stack, seniority, timezone, and what your team actually needs shipped. We'll flag it honestly if embedded staffing isn't your answer.
Interview 2–4 named engineers
Profiles arrive within 48 hours — real names, real project history, code samples included. Run whatever technical loop you'd run for a direct hire.
Prove it with a paid trial week
Your selected developer works your live sprint for one week. Anything short of a clear yes and you pay only that week, with a free replacement queued.
Grow the engagement monthly
Month-to-month terms from there: add developers within 1–2 weeks, adjust skill sets as the roadmap moves, or exit on 30 days' notice.
Roles We Staff
One Partner for Every Software Role You'll Ever Post
This is a hub, not a niche — whatever the job description says, our vetted bench very likely covers it.
Full-Stack Developers
React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript generalists who move comfortably from database schema to UI polish in the same sprint.
Backend Developers
Python, Go, Java, and .NET engineers building APIs, services, and data layers that hold up under real traffic.
Frontend Developers
Specialists in React, Vue, and modern CSS who ship accessible, performant interfaces your designers actually recognize.
AI & Machine Learning Engineers
LLM application builders and ML practitioners with production RAG, evals, and agentic-workflow experience — not just coursework.
Mobile Developers
React Native, Flutter, and native iOS/Android engineers covering the full app-store lifecycle from build to release.
DevOps & Data Engineers
Cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD specialists alongside dbt/Airflow/Spark data engineers — the platform layer, staffed.
Why Aizecs
The Case Against Hiring the Old Way
Every advantage below exists because we designed around a specific failure of traditional developer hiring.
Days instead of months
The average US engineering search runs 3–6 months. Our clients typically go from intro call to a developer committing code in under two weeks.
Zero recruiter fees
Agency recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary — $30k+ per senior hire. With Aizecs there are no placement fees at all; you pay only the published hourly rate.
Mis-hires capped at one week
A bad in-house hire costs months of salary plus morale. Here, the paid trial week plus free replacement caps your worst case at five days of work.
Pre-vetted beyond any résumé screen
Live coding, system design, and communication rounds filter out 19 of every 20 applicants before you ever see a profile. Your interviews start from a shortlist, not a haystack.
AI-native productivity built in
Every developer uses Claude, Copilot, and agentic tools daily — routine work compresses, and your dollars buy senior judgment rather than boilerplate typing.
Your team, your hours, your repos
Engineers embed in your Slack and sprint board with 4+ hours of US Eastern overlap (near-full EU/UK), under IP assignment and NDA on a US-enforceable MSA.
Engagement Models
Three Engagement Shapes, One Simple Contract
Start with what the roadmap needs today; the same MSA covers you as the engagement grows.
Embedded developer
A single vetted engineer joins your squad under your leads — the fastest way to close a specific capability gap.
Best for: One role, filled this month
Dedicated team
A ready-made unit of 3–5 developers, optionally with a tech lead, owning a workstream inside your product org.
Best for: A feature area or product line of its own
Extended engineering hub
A standing India-based extension of your org with continuous hiring, dedicated management, and knowledge retention.
Best for: Sustained growth beyond 5 developers
Compare Your Options
Four Ways to Hire Software Developers, Compared
Each channel optimizes for something different. Here's how they stack up on the dimensions that decide whether a hire succeeds.
| Aizecs | Toptal / Turing | Upwork | In-House Hire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior engineer rate | $38–$65/hr | $90–$150/hr | $25–$50/hr | $100–$160/hr loaded |
| Hiring fees | None | Baked into markup | Platform cut | $30k+ recruiter fee |
| Time to productive | Under 2 weeks | 1–3 weeks | Fast but unvetted | 3–6 months |
| Mis-hire cost | 1 trial week, replaced free | Re-match process | Full project risk | Months of salary |
| Contract terms | Month-to-month | Monthly + fees | Per project | Permanent + benefits |
FAQ
Common Questions
What's the best way to hire software developers in 2026?
For most product teams under 50 engineers, embedded staffing beats both direct hiring and freelance platforms: you get vetted senior talent in days, pay no recruiter fees, and keep month-to-month flexibility. Direct hiring still makes sense for founding engineers and roles requiring deep long-term domain ownership.
How long does it take to hire software developers through Aizecs?
48 hours from the intro call to named candidate profiles, then your interviews at your pace. Most clients have a developer starting the paid trial week within a week of interviews — call it under two weeks from first contact to first commit, versus the 3–6 month industry norm.
Which technologies and stacks do your developers cover?
Effectively all mainstream production stacks: TypeScript/React/Next.js, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET, React Native and Flutter, plus AI/ML, data engineering (dbt, Airflow, Spark), and cloud/DevOps across AWS, GCP, and Azure. If your stack is unusual, we'll tell you honestly whether our bench covers it.
How much does it cost compared to hiring in-house?
A senior developer through Aizecs bills $38–$65/hr with zero recruiting fees. The US in-house equivalent runs $100–$160/hr fully loaded, plus a $30k+ recruiter fee and months of search time. Most clients land at 60–70% total savings per engineer.
How do you screen developers before I see them?
Three vetting stages: a live coding round on real-world problems, a system design interview, and a written-and-spoken communication assessment. Fewer than 1 in 20 applicants pass, and accepted engineers have a median of 5+ years in production environments. You then apply your own interview loop on top.
What happens if the developer doesn't work out?
During the paid trial week, you can stop with no further obligation and we source a replacement free of charge. After the trial, month-to-month terms with 30 days' notice apply — so the exposure of any mis-match is measured in days, never in quarters.
Who owns the code, and how is confidentiality handled?
You own everything from the first commit. IP assignment and NDAs are executed under a US-enforceable master services agreement, and developers work exclusively in your repositories under access controls you manage. No code or credentials ever live on our systems.
Stop Searching. Start Shipping.
Skip the six-month pipeline: brief us in 30 minutes and interview vetted, named developers within 48 hours.
The paid trial week and free-replacement guarantee mean the entire risk of trying us is one week of real, useful work.
30 minutes, nothing to sign. If direct hiring genuinely serves your role better, that's what we'll recommend.