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Hire a Back-End Developer.

APIs, databases and services, built and kept running.

Also called: Backend Developer, MERN Backend Developer, Node.js Developer

From US$7.50 an hourUS$7.50-33/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Startups
  • E-commerce
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  • Works your hours
  • Colombia hub, on New York time or an hour behind
  • Month to month
What your Back-End Developer gets doneSample day
  • Designs and builds REST or GraphQL endpointsAPI and service development
  • Designs schemas and writes reversible migrationsData and databases
  • Writes unit and integration testsQuality and security
  • Deploys through CI/CD to AWS, Google Cloud, AzureOperations and reliabilityDoing
In your tools
  • Node.js
  • PHP
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB

Pick the level. See the price.

US$12.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsUS$22.86/hr
A tested Intermediate Back-End DeveloperUS$12.50/hr
At least 45% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Benefits and payroll taxes would add to the local cost.

Owns a feature or service end-to-end.

  • Complete third-party integration with retries, logging and idempotency
  • Schema and migration plan for a new module
  • OpenAPI documentation for a service

3-5 years building and shipping back-end features in production.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management.

What you hand to your Back-End Developer

Tasks

  • API and service development

    • Designs and builds REST or GraphQL endpoints
    • Writes business logic, queued jobs, workers and scheduled tasks
    • Builds and maintains third-party integrations
    • Agrees API contracts with front-end and mobile developers

  • Data and databases

    • Designs schemas and writes reversible migrations
    • Profiles and optimizes slow queries
    • Builds data imports, exports

  • Quality and security

    • Writes unit and integration tests
    • Reviews other developers' pull requests
    • Applies secure-coding basics
    • Patches vulnerable dependencies flagged by Dependabot, Snyk or npm audit

  • Operations and reliability

    • Deploys through CI/CD to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
    • Monitors errors, logs and performance
    • Runs caching and queues infrastructure
    • Writes runbooks and short technical docs for each service they own

  • Collaboration

    • Estimates and updates tickets in Jira or Linear
    • Explains technical risks and options to non-technical stakeholders

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written communication testAll levels30 min
  2. Back-end stack knowledge testAll levels60 min
  3. Order API take-home buildIntern to Expert4 hrs
  4. Live debugging and code reviewAll levels60 min
  5. System design interviewExpert and Specialist60 min
  6. Portfolio and code history reviewAll levels30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

88%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Back-End Developer is US$7.50 an hour, Intermediate US$12.50, Expert US$19 and Specialist US$33, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month.

Api and service development, data and databases, quality and security and operations and reliability, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written communication test, back-end stack knowledge test and order API take-home build. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Back-End Developer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United States clients is in Colombia, on New York time or an hour behind.

Yes, where it helps. Your Back-End Developer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Back-End Developer owns a feature or service end-to-end. An Expert Back-End Developer owns outcomes for a system, leads incident response and improves engineering processes. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Back-End Developer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Node.js and PHP, before you meet them.

In week one: local dev environment running from the README or Docker Compose, seed data loaded; jira or Linear access, board walkthrough and definition of done agreed; and SOP handover covering branching strategy. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Backend Developer, MERN Backend Developer and Node.js Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Book a 15-minute demo any time, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away. You can also message us on WhatsApp on +61 485 061 086, or email hello@gethands.com.au.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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