Hire TeamCity developer

Short answer: you’ll spend 30-50 % less in total cost of ownership.

Long answer: When companies attempt to build an internal DevOps squad they absorb hard costs—recruiter fees, signing bonuses, equipment, benefits, payroll taxes—and soft costs such as 6-12 weeks of productivity loss while a new hire ramps up. With smartbrain.io you Hire TeamCity developer talent on a pay-as-you-go model. One blended hourly rate covers the engineer, HR, workspace, and continuous upskilling. There is no minimum seat count, and you can scale down after a release without severance or morale hit. Historical data across 120+ placements shows clients save an average of 42 % over 12 months compared with fully burdened salaries in major U.S. tech hubs.

Every engagement starts with a mutual NDA and a Master Services Agreement that assigns all code, scripts, and documentation to your company from day one. Developers work inside your Git repos and VPN, so artifacts never leave your security perimeter. smartbrain.io enforces secure laptops, MFA, and quarterly compliance audits. If your legal team requires additional clauses—data residency, SOC-2 mapping, or GDPR wording—our contracts team adapts within 24 h. That way, you enjoy the speed of outstaffing while retaining iron-clad IP ownership.

Yes. More than 80 % of our talent pool is located within UTC-3 to UTC-7, giving at least four hours of daily overlap with EST-PST. For clients in Europe or APAC we match other regions accordingly. Time-zone alignment is part of our vetting rubric: candidates must demonstrate prior remote work across distributed agile ceremonies and commit to defined core hours. Daily stand-ups, demo days, and incident calls remain synchronous, preserving the velocity you’d expect from a co-located team while keeping global cost advantages.

Contracts run month-to-month with only a 14-day notice period, allowing you to align spend with product milestones. There are no lock-ins or hidden retainer fees. Need to pause work? Provide notice and we off-board gracefully, preserving knowledge in hand-over docs. Our flexibility beats traditional recruitment where severance, layoffs, and sunk costs create budget headaches.

Candidates face a 4-stage assessment: (1) 90-minute technical screening covering Kotlin DSL, cloud agents, and CI/CD theory; (2) live pair-programming inside a TeamCity sandbox; (3) architecture interview focused on plugin design and build caching; (4) English and soft-skills evaluation. Only 3 % pass. When you receive a profile, you can skip basics and dive straight into culture fit.

smartbrain.io offers a no-risk replacement guarantee. Raise a flag within the first 14 days and we replace the developer at no charge. Afterward, performance plans kick in with weekly checkpoints. If objectives are still missed, we swap talent within seven business days, ensuring your sprint velocity stays intact.

Average kickoff is 48 hours. While legal finalizes signatures, we pre-schedule candidate interviews, provision tool access, and prepare onboarding checklists. Day-one productivity is a core KPI for our delivery managers, so your new TeamCity developer commits code the same week you sign.