A developer, vetted by a developer
One engineer working with you and no one else, around forty hours a week, from $1,760 a month. Every candidate takes a structured technical assessment, and a working senior engineer reads the result before you ever see a profile.
Why this is hard
You find out in week three
How developer screening normally works, and why it does not.
Most staffing agencies screen developers the same way they screen everyone else. A recruiter matches the words on a CV against the words in your job description, runs a call about availability, and forwards the profile. Nobody in that chain has written production code.
You find out what the person can actually do in week three.
Vetting
Five steps, and a person at every one
The assessment filters. It does not decide.
- 01
One person cannot interview everyone, so the first pass is structured.
Every candidate takes an online assessment built for the role they are applying to. It covers the technical work and the parts that are harder to test for: how they explain a decision, how they handle a problem with missing information, how clearly they write. It is AI-assisted, which matters for one reason only. Every candidate gets the same questions held to the same standard, whoever they are and whenever they applied.
- 02
Then a working senior engineer reads it.
The score filters, it does not decide. What matters is how someone got to an answer, what they chose not to do, and whether their reasoning holds up. That review is the part no tool does and it is why this page exists.
- 03
A reference check
With someone who managed their work.
- 04
An English evaluation
Because a developer who cannot explain a tradeoff is expensive no matter how they code.
- 05
Then you interview them.
Nobody starts without your approval.
What we reject people for
Most rejections have nothing to do with whether the code ran.
- 01
They cannot explain a decision they made.
If someone built it and cannot say why they took that approach over the obvious alternative, they will not defend a tradeoff to your team either.
- 02
Their seniority does not survive an unfamiliar problem.
Plenty of developers are strong inside a stack they know and lost outside it. The assessment includes a problem they have not seen before for exactly that reason.
- 03
They go quiet when a question is incomplete.
Some of what we ask is deliberately missing a piece. We want to see someone ask for it. A developer who guesses instead of asking is the one who disappears for a week and delivers the wrong thing.
Pricing
Three levels, published
The whole fee, with nothing added later.
Junior
$1,760/ month
Mid
$2,400/ month
Senior
$3,360/ month
That is the whole fee. It covers the developer’s compensation, our sourcing and vetting, the contracts and compliance, and account management for the life of the engagement. No setup fee, no placement fee, no percentage.
The US median software developer salary is $133,080, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A senior developer through us is $40,320 a year, roughly 70 percent less, and that is before benefits, equipment, recruiting fees, or the months spent hiring.
Aptcruit figure is $3,360 a month over twelve months. US median from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before benefits, equipment and recruiting. Around 70 percent less.
The terms
What you get
All of it contractual, none of it a policy statement.
One developer, dedicated to you.
Not split across clients, not a pooled resource.
Around forty hours a week
With an overlap window agreed before they start.
Your code is yours.
All work product is assigned to you, and the assignment is signed before they touch a repository.
Confidentiality signed first.
No system access without it.
No employment relationship.
You contract with Aptcruit, not with an individual, which keeps you clear of classification exposure.
Free replacement, no time limit.
Acknowledged in two business days, delivered within fourteen, and you stop paying from the day they leave until the replacement starts.
FAQ
Frequent questions
What engineering leads ask before the first call.
Whatever the role needs. We source against your brief rather than from a bench, so the question is never whether we can look, it is how long it takes. Common stacks move fastest: JavaScript and TypeScript, PHP, Python, mobile, QA. Something rarer takes longer, and we will tell you how much longer before you commit to anything. What we will not do is take the brief, go quiet for three weeks, and come back with someone who nearly fits.
You do. All work product and deliverables produced for you are your exclusive property, and every contractor signs the assignment before starting. There is no ambiguity about it later.
Yes. You provide access the same way you would for any team member. They work on their own equipment and their own connection.
Yes, inside the overlap window you agree before the engagement starts. Outside it they manage their own working pattern, which is what keeps the contractor relationship correctly classified.
No. A dedicated developer works with you and no other client.
Tell us. We acknowledge within two business days, start sourcing within five, and deliver a replacement within fourteen. Fees stop while the seat is empty, and the replacement costs you nothing at any point in the engagement.
Tell us the role and we will give you a real timeline on the call rather than a number on a page.
Tell us what you are building
Describe the role and the stack. We will come back within one business day with what it costs, who we would look for, and how long it would take.
