Hire Dedicated Developers for AI, Web & Mobile

It means the engineers we place are full time Unico Connect employees, not anonymous marketplace freelancers, and our hiring process has three stages. They are an application screen for stack relevance, years of experience, English and time zone overlap, a live coding round of 60 to 90 minutes in the primary technology of the candidate followed by scenario based questions, and a walkthrough of a recent production project with third party background verification of prior employment, education and identity. New engineers then serve a probation period, and those who do not meet our bar do not continue with us. You interview shortlisted candidates yourself before anyone joins your team.

Your developer works as an extension of your team, directly in your channels. They follow your existing process, including your standups, code review workflow and project tools such as Jira, Linear or GitHub, and report to your tech lead day to day. A Unico Connect engagement manager handles HR, performance reviews and contract issues in the background.

Our replacement guarantee gives you a replacement vetted developer at no extra fee if the placed developer is not the right fit or underperforms. Tell us what is not working, and we present another vetted candidate for you to interview.

Retainers run for at least 3 months, then continue month to month with 30 days notice. That minimum gives your developer time to learn your codebase and ship meaningful work. We offer fixed scope for proofs of concept and MVPs, then move to a retainer for ongoing work, so the engagement can scale with you.

Rates run $25 to $50 an hour depending on seniority, and fixed scope projects have a $10,000 minimum. AI and ML roles run $30 to $60 an hour depending on seniority, and fixed scope projects have a $10,000 minimum. By comparison, a US senior engineer costs $115 to $160 per hour fully loaded, counting salary, taxes, benefits, recruiter fees and ramp time, and freelance platforms typically charge $60 to $200 per hour plus platform fees, deposits and contract initiation costs. The rate we quote is your final rate, with no setup fees, recruiter fees or surprise line items, and any vendor plan or API usage is billed separately from our rate.

Yes. You can combine engineers across complementary stacks, for example 1 backend, 2 frontend and 1 DevOps engineer. We design the team composition with you based on the project, then assign engineers from our existing team. If a role needs a stack we do not currently have on the team, we open a new hiring funnel for it.

All engineers are based in India, on IST (UTC+5:30, no daylight saving), and our office runs 9:00 am to 8:00 pm IST. Our engineers flex their hours to keep at least 4 hours of overlap with North American business hours and 5 to 6 hours with European business hours. For support, our night shift engineers cover your business hours. For the US West Coast on Pacific time and for Latin America, we add a daily sync in your time zone, with deep work on IST.

We sign a mutual NDA before discovery starts, and IP assignment and all other contract terms are set out in the MSA and SOW you sign when the engagement begins. Where possible, code is developed in repositories you own, such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Every engineer has signed a confidentiality agreement with Unico Connect.

Unico Connect is ISO 27001:2022 certified for information security management and ISO 9001:2015 certified for quality management. We are GDPR compliant and follow ISMS policies covering access control, data classification and incident response. We provide audit ready documentation for enterprise procurement teams.

No, we do not offer a free trial period. Instead, you interview shortlisted candidates yourself before anyone joins your team, and our replacement guarantee applies once the engagement starts.

We publish our hourly rates, while many staff augmentation vendors ask you to request a quote before you see a price. Unlike a talent marketplace, we also deliver full projects, with 250+ products delivered for clients worldwide and a 4.8 rating from 54 reviews on Clutch. The engineers you hire are full time Unico Connect employees in India, assigned from that same delivery team. The rate we quote is final, with no platform fees, deposits or recruiter fees.