Shimira ITHire full-stack developers
Full-stack developers who own features end to end.
"Full-stack" has become the most inflated title in software, often meaning a frontend developer who once wrote an API route, or a backend developer who can survive in CSS. Real full-stack engineering is rarer and more valuable: one person who can take a feature from database schema to API to interface, making coherent decisions at every layer because they see all of them.
That's the profile we hire for internally and staff externally. Our full-stack developers work in one language, TypeScript, across the entire stack: Next.js and React on the frontend, Node.js on the backend, PostgreSQL underneath.
Why one-language full-stack changes your economics
For startups and lean product teams, a TypeScript full-stack developer isn't just a hire, it's a structural advantage:
- No handoff tax. The most expensive place in software is the seam between frontend and backend teams, the meetings, the API contract disputes, the "blocked on backend" tickets. A full-stack owner removes the seam.
- Shared types across the stack. The API's types are the frontend's types. An entire category of integration bugs stops existing.
- Smaller teams, faster loops. Two full-stack developers frequently outship a four-person split team on early-stage products, at half the coordination overhead.
- Honest scoping. An engineer who builds both sides estimates both sides, no more frontend quotes that ignore the backend iceberg.
The trade-off, honestly stated: at large scale, deep specialists win, which is why we also staff dedicated Next.js and Node.js engineers. Full-stack shines from zero to serious traction; we'll tell you when your system has outgrown it.
What they bring
Developers who've done it in production.
Complete features and products
SaaS applications, dashboards, portals, and marketplaces, schema, API, UI, and deployment from one accountable owner.
MVPs on a clock
The zero-to-launch profile: one or two full-stack engineers shipping a production MVP in 2–4 months, at the budget ranges in our cost guide.
AI-augmented products
Full-stack TypeScript pairs naturally with the LLM layer, our full-stack developers integrate AI features working alongside our AI engineers, keeping one stack from model call to UI.
Inherited codebases
Taking over a product a previous team left behind, starting with an architecture audit so you know what you actually have.
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
Proof
Not a résumé, a running product.
A full-stack platform, React front end, Node.js backend, 48-model database, built and maintained by one accountable team.
What good looks like
"Full-stack" must mean both halves
Vet any full-stack candidate against both halves:
- Database first: designs the schema before the UI; can index, paginate, and explain a query plan.
- API craft: auth, validation, error contracts, and versioning, not just routes that return JSON.
- Frontend beyond rendering: state architecture, accessibility, and Core Web Vitals awareness.
- Deployment ownership: CI/CD, environments, monitoring, "works on my machine" isn't a deliverable.
- Judgment about the seams: can articulate what belongs server-side vs. client-side and why.
- Depth in at least one layer. A real full-stack engineer is T-shaped; someone equally shallow everywhere is a generalist, not full-stack.
Pricing
Engagement models & pricing.
| Model | Best for | Pricing (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated full-stack developer (full-time) | Ongoing product ownership | $4,000 – $7,500/month (mid) · $7,000 – $12,000/month (senior) |
| Full-stack pod (2 devs + lead oversight) | MVP to production | $10,000 – $22,000/month |
| Project-based build | A defined product or feature set | Scoped fixed price, typical ranges |
| Hourly engagement | Audits, take-overs, part-time | $25 – $45/hr (mid) · $40 – $75/hr (senior) |
Comparable US full-stack engineers bill $100–$180+/hour. Our senior team delivers at $40–$75/hour with overlap hours matched to your time zone, the regional arithmetic is broken down in the software development cost guide.
Getting started
How hiring works
- 01
Requirements call (free)
What you're building and where you are, idea, MVP, or live product.
- 02
Meet the developers
Interview the actual engineers; review code they've shipped.
- 03
Trial sprint (2 weeks)
Real work in your repo before any commitment.
- 04
Scale month to month
Grow into a pod or hand off to specialists as the product matures.
Questions
What buyers ask before hiring.
$25–$45/hour mid-level, $40–$75/hour senior, or $4,000–$12,000/month dedicated. A two-developer pod with lead oversight runs $10,000–$22,000/month, typically enough to take an MVP to production. US equivalents cost 2.5–4× more.
TypeScript end to end: Next.js + React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, deployed on AWS/GCP, the same stack behind our web app development services. Other stacks by arrangement.
For most MVPs, one senior full-stack developer plus part-time design gets to launch in 2–4 months. We'll tell you on the first call if your scope genuinely needs more.
Day-to-day deployment, CI/CD, and monitoring, yes. Complex infrastructure (multi-region, heavy compliance) gets specialist support.
Related
Not quite what you need?
Tell us the gap. We'll fill it with the right person.
Describe the role and your stack. We'll put forward vetted developers you interview and choose from, usually within a week.