Hire Caddy developer

When you Hire Caddy developer talent directly you carry salary, equity, recruiter fees, payroll tax, equipment, training, and—most overlooked—bench time when projects slow. Outstaffing through smartbrain.io converts all of those fixed costs into a single, transparent hourly rate. There is no placement fee, you pay only for productive hours, and we absorb benefits and paid leave. This model typically represents a 25-40 % total-cost reduction for mid-market tech firms, while still giving you senior specialists who report to your in-house leads each day. Add or remove capacity with 7-day notice and keep capital for core R&D rather than headcount overhead.

Every engagement starts with a mutual NDA, but we go further. All outstaffed Caddy engineers work under strong confidentiality clauses and access code only through your VPN or Git provider with SSO. Source resides exclusively in your repos; smartbrain.io retains no rights. We are SOC 2 compliant, run quarterly penetration tests, and can whitelist dedicated IP ranges for regulated industries. For U.S. entities we also execute California PII addendums and offer on-shore only talent when required. Your legal team gets audit trails for every commit and device.

No. We maintain a global bench but match you with Caddy professionals who overlap at least four business hours with your team. That means East-Coast companies can hold morning stand-ups while West-Coast firms still get late-afternoon syncs. Developers provide daily progress reports in your preferred tool—Slack, Teams, or Jira—and can adjust sprint rituals to daylight-saving changes. For mission-critical releases we rotate two engineers to achieve near-24/7 coverage without burning out a single resource.

Our standard MSA lets you start with a two-week, risk-free trial. After that, billing is monthly, net-15, with no long-term lock-in; cancel with 14-day notice. Need more flexibility? Switch to hourly or blended retainer models at any time. All rates include payroll taxes, equipment, and performance insurance, so finance teams have one predictable line item.

Less than 2 % of applicants make our bench. Each prospective Caddy developer completes: 1) a structured CV screen looking for production-scale reverse-proxy experience; 2) a live coding session building a multi-site Caddyfile; 3) an architecture interview with an ex-FAANG staff engineer; and 4) a soft-skills assessment covering English fluency and remote-work etiquette. We share full scorecards and recorded sessions so your CTO can validate before the first day of work.

Absolutely. During the two-week trial you can end the contract at no cost. Post-trial, notify your account manager and we will introduce a replacement within 72 hours, backed by previous handover notes. Because all engineers follow the same documentation standards, onboarding the new developer is frictionless, safeguarding project velocity.

You will see the first resumes within 24 hours of your discovery call. Interviews are typically scheduled the following day, and most clients sign a work order 48 hours after kickoff. Actual start date depends on your onboarding checklist—VPN, repo access, and credentials—but many of our Caddy specialists push their first commit in under three business days. That’s weeks faster than the median U.S. hiring cycle.