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Hire Software Developers for Startups — From $15/hour | Trango Tech
Now onboarding startups — 2026

Hire senior software developers for your startup — starting at $15/hour.

From $15 / hour · no recruiting fees

Ship your MVP or scale your engineering team with pre-vetted on-shore, near-shore, and off-shore developers. Matched in 48 hours. Slack-ready in a week. Cancel anytime.

48-hour CV match — Interview shortlisted devs before you commit
2-week risk-free trial — Not a fit? Walk away, no fees
Week-to-week engagement — Scale up, scale down, no long contracts
4.9 / 5
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200+ engineers across 3 continents
Trusted by startups — and enterprises like SAP
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Tell us who you need. Receive a curated shortlist in 48 hours. No credit card required.

    Trusted by 100+ startups — and enterprises like SAP
    SAP · HealthSync · FinLedger · Sproutly · Cohortly · Launchpad AI · Nomad Labs · RetailPulse · Orbit HR · Stackline · Wavefront · Brightwire · SAP · HealthSync · FinLedger · Sproutly · Cohortly · Launchpad AI · Nomad Labs · RetailPulse · Orbit HR · Stackline · Wavefront · Brightwire ·
    The Hiring Problem

    Hiring your engineering team shouldn't burn your runway

    Every startup founder has felt it: the painful gap between needing senior engineers now and actually getting them on the keyboard. Here's what that gap costs.

    90 days
    Avg. Time to Fill a Senior Role

    Traditional hiring cycles

    By the time you post a JD, interview 30 candidates, negotiate, and onboard — your runway has shrunk by $40k+ and your roadmap is already a quarter behind.

    $180k+
    Fully-Loaded Cost Per Senior Dev

    The true in-house cost

    Base salary + equity + benefits + payroll taxes + recruiter fees + laptop + tools + HR overhead. Multiply by 3 hires and you've used half a seed round before shipping anything.

    62%
    Freelance Projects That Derail

    Freelancer roulette

    Ghosting. Missed deadlines. No IP protection. No accountability when something breaks at 2am. Upwork and Fiverr aren't built for production-critical startup engineering.

    We fix all three — pre-vetted senior developers from $15/hour, matched in 48 hours, with a risk-free trial and no long-term contract.
    Hiring Models

    Three ways to hire — pick what fits your stage

    Every startup stage needs a different blend of cost, speed, and timezone overlap. We staff all three — on-shore, near-shore, and off-shore — and help you mix them to stretch your runway without sacrificing quality.

    Most Popular
    Off-shore
    Global Remote Network
    From $15 / hour
    • 3–5 hour daytime overlap with US
    • 24/7 build velocity — ship while you sleep
    • Maximize runway — stretch seed funding 3×
    • Deep bench for AI, full-stack, mobile, DevOps
    Best For
    Pre-seed to seed startups building MVPs on a tight budget
    Hire Off-shore Developers
    Near-shore
    Latin America
    From $25 / hour
    • 6–8 hour same-day overlap with US teams
    • Real-time collaboration — Slack, standups, pairing
    • High cultural fit — US business norms
    • Strong product sense, English fluency C1+
    Best For
    Seed to Series A startups scaling agile product teams
    Hire Near-shore Developers
    On-shore
    United States
    From $40 / hour
    • 100% timezone overlap, on-site option
    • Regulated-industry ready — HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP
    • Strongest IP protection & US legal jurisdiction
    • Senior architects, fractional CTO available
    Best For
    Series A+ startups in regulated industries or needing on-site
    Hire On-shore Developers
    Roles & Technologies

    Every role your startup needs — across every stack

    From a single full-stack developer to a full cross-functional team — we staff every role modern startups actually hire for, across every stack worth using in 2026.

    Core Development
    Full-Stack Developer
    Front-End Developer
    Back-End Developer
    Mobile Developer (iOS)
    Mobile Developer (Android)
    Cross-Platform Mobile Dev
    AI / ML Engineer
    Data Engineer
    Data Scientist
    DevOps Engineer
    SRE / Cloud Engineer
    QA / Automation Engineer
    Specialized & Emerging
    Security Engineer
    Blockchain / Web3 Developer
    Game Developer (Unity)
    Game Developer (Unreal)
    AR / VR Developer
    IoT / Embedded Engineer
    GenAI / LLM Engineer
    Prompt Engineer
    Design & Product
    UI / UX Designer
    Product Designer
    Design Systems Engineer
    Technical Writer
    Front-End
    React Next.js Vue Angular Svelte TypeScript Tailwind CSS HTML / CSS
    Back-End
    Node.js Python · Django FastAPI Flask Java · Spring Go Ruby on Rails Laravel (PHP) .NET Rust Elixir
    Mobile
    Swift / iOS Kotlin / Android React Native Flutter Expo
    AI / LLM / Machine Learning
    OpenAI API Anthropic Claude LangChain LlamaIndex Hugging Face PyTorch TensorFlow CrewAI Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant RAG Pipelines
    Cloud & DevOps
    AWS Azure Google Cloud Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions CI / CD Serverless / Lambda Cloudflare Workers
    Data & Databases
    PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Snowflake BigQuery Elasticsearch Kafka Airflow dbt
    Web3 & Emerging
    Solidity Ethereum Solana Smart Contracts Web3.js Ethers.js AI Agents Multimodal AI Edge / IoT
    Level 1
    Junior Developer
    0–2 years · Executes well-scoped tickets under mentorship. Great for routine feature work at lower rates.
    Level 2
    Mid-Level Developer
    2–5 years · Owns features end-to-end. Makes technical decisions within a module.
    Level 3
    Senior Developer
    5–10 years · Most popular hire. Leads features, mentors juniors, architects subsystems.
    Level 4
    Staff / Principal
    10+ years · Designs platform-wide solutions, sets engineering standards, mentors senior ICs.
    Level 5
    Tech Lead
    Leads a squad of 3–6 engineers. Balances delivery, architecture, and people coaching.
    Level 5
    Solutions Architect
    System-level design, integration patterns, technology selection, technical due diligence.
    Level 6
    Engineering Manager
    Manages 5–15 engineers, runs hiring loops, sets quarterly roadmap, owns delivery health.
    Level 6
    Fractional CTO
    10–20 hrs/week. Technical strategy, hiring plan, vendor decisions, investor technical diligence.
    Level 7
    Director of Engineering
    Multi-team leadership. Org design, platform strategy, cross-functional alignment.

    Fractional CTO

    10–20 hrs/week of senior technical leadership. Technical roadmap, hiring plan, architecture reviews, investor Q&A. Perfect for non-technical founders or between CTO hires.

    Technical Advisor

    Architecture reviews, tech-stack decisions, code audits, technical due diligence support for fundraising or acquisition. Hourly or retainer.

    Solutions Architect

    Full system design before you build. Data model, API contracts, integration patterns, scalability plan. Delivered as a review-ready technical design document.

    Technical Product Manager

    Sprint planning, backlog grooming, founder-to-engineer translation, roadmap ownership. Ideal when non-technical founders need a technical PM to run the team.

    Scrum Master / Agile Coach

    Introduces agile rituals, unblocks teams, runs retros, tracks velocity. Scales processes as your engineering team grows from 3 to 30.

    Engineering Manager

    Full people-manager for a 5–15 person engineering team. Hiring, 1:1s, performance, delivery. Embedded in your org or fractional.

    Found the role you need? Get matched CVs in 48 hours.
    Tell us which role, stack, and seniority — we'll send 3–5 vetted candidates. No recruiting fees.
    Get Matching CVs Or try the MVP Planner

      Free MVP Plan Generator

      Not sure what team you need? Get a personalized MVP plan in 2 minutes.

      Answer 5 quick questions. We'll generate a recommended team composition, launch timeline, monthly cost range, and suggested tech stack — tailored to what you're actually building.

      Step 1 of 5
      Product Type
      Question 1 of 5

      What are you building?

      Pick the option that best describes your product. This helps us size the team correctly.

      Please select what you're building.
      Question 2 of 5

      What stage are you at?

      This helps us right-size your team — you don't need a Principal Engineer to validate an idea.

      Please select your current stage.
      Question 3 of 5

      Which features are must-haves?

      Select all that apply — we use these to pick the right specialists for your team.

      Pick at least one feature.
      Question 4 of 5

      When do you need to launch?

      Tighter timelines need more engineers working in parallel. Flexible timelines can ship with a leaner team.

      Please select a timeline.
      Final Step

      Where should we send your MVP plan?

      We'll show your plan instantly — and send a clean PDF copy to your inbox so you can share it with co-founders or investors.

      Please fill in all fields — email and phone must be valid.
      Your Personalized MVP Plan

      Here's how to build your MVP

      Based on what you told us, here's the team, timeline, cost range, and stack we'd recommend.

      Recommended Timeline
      8–10 weeks
      From kickoff to production launch
      Monthly Team Cost
      $6,000 – $9,000
      At off-shore rates · On-shore available at ~3×
      Recommended Team Composition
      Suggested Tech Stack

      Ready to staff this team?

      We can have 3–5 matched developer CVs in your inbox within 48 hours — no recruiting fees, 2-week risk-free trial.

      Get Matching CVs Book a 30-min call
      Want to try different inputs? Reset the plan →
      Step 1 / 5
      Process

      Under 7 days from hello to first commit

      No 60-day sales cycles. No week-long hiring panels. Just a fast, founder-friendly process designed to get senior developers working on your product — quickly.

      Day 0
      Brief Us

      30-min discovery call

      Tell us what you're building, your stack, your timeline, and your budget. We sign an NDA first if you need. No sales pitch.

      Day 2
      Get CVs

      Receive matched shortlist

      3–5 pre-vetted developer CVs in your inbox — with sample code, portfolio links, rate, timezone, and availability.

      Day 3–5
      Interview

      Meet & hire who you like

      You interview candidates directly. Pick who fits. Skip who doesn't. Zero placement fee if none of them are right.

      Day 7
      Ship Together

      Onboarded & in Slack

      Contract signed, laptop shipped, tools access set up, attending your standup, and writing their first commit.

      Most founders have a developer onboarded within 5 business days
      Start the clock — your first CVs arrive in 48 hours.
      Book a 30-minute intro call. NDA signed first, always.
      Book My Discovery Call Or call now
      How We Compare

      Staff augmentation vs every other option

      Side-by-side: Trango staff augmentation, in-house hires, freelancer marketplaces, and full-service agencies — across the things that actually matter to startups.

      What matters to you Trango Staff Aug In-House Hire Upwork / Fiverr Full Agency
      Time to first commit 5–7 days 60–90 days 1–3 days 20–30 days
      Senior talent guaranteed ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
      Transparent pricing ✓ ✗ ~ ✗
      No long-term contract ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
      IP protection & NDAs ✓ ✓ ~ ✓
      Replacement guarantee ✓ ✗ ✗ ~
      2-week risk-free trial ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
      Scale up/down weekly ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
      Monthly cost (1 senior dev) ~$2,400 ~$15,000 Variable ~$12,000+

      Monthly cost assumes 160 hrs/month at each model's blended rate · Staff augmentation is the only model built for startup economics + startup velocity.

      Skip the 90-day hire. Get developers shipping this week.
      From $15/hour · 2-week risk-free trial · Cancel anytime
      Get Matching CVs Compare hiring models
      Why Trango

      The staff augmentation partner built for startups

      We've been shipping software for 20 years — and the last five have been spent specifically building teams for startups. Everything below exists because founders asked for it.

      200+ vetted senior engineers

      Across 3 continents, pre-screened with live coding, systems design, and portfolio review. Top 5% of applicants only.

      Starting at $15/hour

      Transparent, all-in hourly rates. No hidden recruiter fees, no platform cuts, no surprise invoices.

      48-hour CV match

      Receive 3–5 matched developer CVs within two business days of your intro call. Interview the same week.

      2-week risk-free trial

      Don't love the fit? Walk away with no fees, no invoice, no friction. You only pay once you're confident.

      100+ startup MVPs shipped

      Plus enterprise clients like SAP. We've built for pre-seed founders and Fortune 500s — and we know the difference.

      Month-to-month, cancel anytime

      No 6-month contracts. No cancellation fees. Scale up for the launch, down after. Your startup's pace, not ours.

      Enough reading — let's match you with developers.
      One 30-min call. CVs in 48 hours. First commit next week.
      Get Matching CVs Try the MVP Planner first
      200+
      Vetted Engineers
      100+
      Startup MVPs Launched
      4.9★
      Clutch · 40+ Reviews
      48hrs
      Avg. Time to CV Match
      Case Studies

      Startup results we're proud of

      From pre-seed founders building their first MVP to enterprises scaling innovation teams — here's what happens when you staff with Trango.

      Enterprise
      SAP

      Scaling SAP's innovation team with embedded full-stack engineers

      SAP needed senior engineers to accelerate internal tooling without going through a 6-month hiring cycle. We embedded 2 full-stack developers on-site within 3 weeks — who ended up staying for 18 months and shipping 3 enterprise-grade integrations.

      2 devs
      Placed on-site · 18mo
      3 tools
      Enterprise integrations shipped
      "The Trango engineers ramped up faster than our own new hires typically do. No dependency on HR cycles, no compromise on quality." — VP of Engineering, SAP Labs
      Pre-seed SaaS
      HealthSync

      Pre-seed startup shipped HIPAA-compliant MVP in 9 weeks

      A solo founder with $1.2M pre-seed needed to ship a HIPAA-compliant patient-data MVP in under 3 months to hit her investor demo. We matched a 3-person off-shore team (full-stack, DevOps, QA) within 5 days.

      9 weeks
      Idea to launched MVP
      $72K
      Total build cost saved vs US team
      "We'd have run out of runway trying to hire locally. Trango got us a senior team in a week — and we hit our demo day with a working product." — Priya Narayan, Founder, HealthSync
      Series A FinTech
      FinLedger

      Scaled from 2 to 11 engineers in 6 weeks after Series A

      FinLedger closed a Series A and needed to triple engineering fast to capture market demand. We staffed 9 additional engineers — a mix of near-shore and off-shore — with an average time-to-hire of 6 days per role vs their usual 90 days.

      9 devs
      Hired in 6 weeks
      −93%
      Time-to-hire vs in-house
      "Post-raise, every week we delayed hiring was a week of lost market share. Trango's bench let us scale engineering the same month we closed." — Marcus Chen, CTO, FinLedger
      Your startup could be the next case study.
      Same playbook. Same 48-hour CV match. Same founder-friendly terms.
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      What Founders Say

      Built by founders, for founders

      "
      ★★★★★

      We had developer CVs in our inbox within 48 hours of our first call. Three weeks later we had a full team shipping production code. This is how engineering hiring should work for every startup.

      JA
      Jamie Alvarez
      Founder & CEO · Sproutly
      ★★★★★

      At $15/hour, I was skeptical. Then our off-shore lead rebuilt our backend in 4 weeks — cleaner than the $90k agency version we were about to scrap. Trango saved our seed round.

      RK
      Rachel Kim
      Technical Co-founder · Cohortly
      ★★★★★

      As a non-technical founder, I needed someone I could trust on the technical side. Our Fractional CTO from Trango helped us pick the stack, hire 4 engineers, and pass Series A technical diligence.

      MP
      Marcus Patel
      CEO · Launchpad AI
      Frequently Asked

      Answers to the questions every founder asks

      Everything you'd want to know before hiring developers through a staff augmentation partner — especially if you've been burned before.

      After our 30-minute intro call, we deliver 3–5 matched developer CVs within 48 hours. You interview that week, and the selected developer is fully onboarded — contract signed, tools access granted, attending your standup — within 5–7 business days from our first conversation.
      Two protections: (1) If none of the matched CVs work for you, you pay nothing — no placement fee, no recruitment fee. (2) Once engaged, every developer comes with a 2-week risk-free trial. If it's not working, walk away with no further obligation. We'll also replace a developer at any point in the engagement at no cost.
      The $15/hour rate is our starting off-shore rate for mid-level developers and is fully inclusive — it covers the developer's salary, our overhead, tooling, and a dedicated client success manager. No hidden placement fees, no recruiter cuts, no platform markups. Senior and specialist rates are higher (typically $22–$35/hour off-shore). Near-shore starts at $25/hour, on-shore at $40/hour. You get a clear rate card in writing before you hire.
      Hire just one if that's what you need. Most of our startup engagements start with a single senior developer or a two-person team and scale up once the founder sees what's possible. No minimum team size, no minimum spend.
      No. Engagements run week-to-week with no minimum commitment. Scale up for your launch, scale down after, pause entirely if you need to — all with one week's notice. We've designed the contract specifically for startup runway realities.
      You own 100% of the code, IP, and deliverables from day one. Our standard MSA includes full IP assignment, all developers sign individual IP assignment clauses plus NDAs, and we can sign your custom IP agreement before any work begins. This survives Series A due diligence — we've been through it dozens of times.
      Yes — always, before any technical discussion. We'll sign your NDA, or send you ours. We routinely work on stealth-mode startups and take confidentiality extremely seriously. All Trango employees are bound by a master NDA as a condition of employment.
      Yes. All our off-shore engineers commit to 3–5 hours of US-business-hours overlap daily — typically mornings ET / evenings in their timezone. This covers daily standup, pair-programming sessions, and synchronous problem-solving. The remaining hours become "ship while you sleep" velocity for heads-down work.
      Upwork is a marketplace with no quality control — you filter thousands of profiles alone. Trango is a managed service with 7-stage vetting, full-time employment (not freelance gigs), IP/NDA protection, replacement guarantees, and a dedicated client success manager. If something goes wrong at 2am, there's an accountable partner — not an anonymous profile that might ghost you.
      Yes. Our Fractional CTO offering is specifically designed for non-technical founders — 10–20 hours per week of senior technical leadership covering architecture, hiring strategy, vendor decisions, investor technical diligence, and roadmap ownership. We also offer hourly technical advisors for architecture reviews, code audits, and pre-acquisition technical diligence.
      Ready When You Are

      Get your first 3 developer CVs by Friday

      One 30-minute call. Matched CVs in 48 hours. First developer writing commits next week. Cancel anytime — we earn the engagement every month.

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