Build a frontend team without the local engineering market

You need a frontend developer. You've been looking for two months. The good ones want $8,000 to $12,000 a month, and they have three competing offers by the time you schedule a second interview. The ones in your budget lack the experience to work independently. The local engineering market is brutal, and hiring timelines stretch to 8 to 12 weeks even for a single role.

Your product roadmap can't wait that long.

The painful path

You've posted on every job board. You've asked for referrals. You've worked with recruiters who charged 20% of first-year salary and still took six weeks to find candidates. The frontend talent pool in your city is small, competitive, and expensive.

You've tried freelance developers. The first one built the feature, then was unavailable for bug fixes. The second one wrote code that only they could maintain, and they're gone now. You've considered offshore agencies, but they staff projects with rotating developers who don't know your codebase and deliver code that your team spends weeks refactoring.

The product team is waiting. Designs sit in Figma unbuilt. Feature timelines slip because there's nobody to write the frontend code.

What changes with SoTalented

You get a dedicated frontend developer working only for your team, from a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India. They're integrated into your Git workflow, your CI pipeline, your standups, and your code reviews. They're not a freelancer who disappears after the sprint. They're a team member who learns your codebase and your architecture.

A dedicated junior frontend developer starts around $2,500 a month, all in. Mid-level, around $3,000. Senior, around $3,500. That includes the person, the office, the equipment, and everything else. They work with your stack (React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, whatever you're running). First hire takes about 3 weeks. 30-day cancellation if the fit isn't right.

You don't have to hire a team all at once. Start with one developer, validate the workflow, then add more as the roadmap demands.

What your team looks like now

Your frontend developer handles:

• Feature development from Figma designs to shipped code

• Bug fixes and maintenance across the existing frontend

• Code reviews, PR contributions, and documentation

• Performance optimization and accessibility improvements

• Integration with backend APIs and third-party services

• Daily standups and sprint participation with the rest of your team

Designs stop sitting in Figma. Features ship on time. Your product roadmap moves at the pace of the work, not the pace of local hiring.

Ready to unblock the roadmap?

Hire a Frontend Developer and we'll match you with someone who fits your stack and working style.