Hire developers
Hire dedicated developers who work inside your team.
Our engineers join your standups, commit to your repositories and report to your leads. You get the capacity of a bigger team without recruiting for it, and the code is yours from the first commit.
Which developers can you hire?
Engineers and designers for the stack most products are built on.
Front-end developers
React and Next.js interfaces, design systems and accessibility work.
Mobile developers
iOS and Android apps from one codebase, through to store release.
Cloud and DevOps engineers
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and cost control.
WordPress and Shopify developers
Custom themes, plugins and apps, speed and security work.
QA engineers and designers
Automated testing, and UX and interface design in Figma.
How hiring dedicated developers works with us
- Tell us the role. The stack, the seniority, the hours you need covered and when you want to start. A person replies within one business day, including when the honest answer is that we do not have the right engineer free.
- Agree the arrangement. Engineers, hours of overlap, how they report to you, and a price per engineer, per month, in writing.
- Set up access in your name. Your repositories, your project tools, your cloud accounts. Nothing important lives in ours.
- Work as one team. Our engineers join your standups and planning, follow your code review rules and report to your leads, with a written update every week.
Dedicated developers, freelancers, agencies or in-house?
Each model fits a different situation. Dedicated developers make sense when you already have someone setting priorities and need more hands on an ongoing roadmap. If you need a whole product delivered against a scope, a fixed-scope project is usually better.
| Model | Who manages the work | How it is priced | Continuity | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | You do | Hourly or fixed | Depends on one person's availability | Small, well-defined tasks |
| Agency project | The agency | Per milestone or project | The agency's team, until handover | A defined product with a clear outcome |
| Dedicated developers | You, day to day | Per engineer, per month | The same engineers, backed by a company | Ongoing work inside your own roadmap |
| In-house hire | You | Salary, benefits, equipment | Yours, once hired and trained | Core, long-term roles you can recruit for |
Six questions to ask any provider of dedicated developers
Ask these of us and of anyone else you are considering. Vague answers to the first two are reason enough to walk away.
- Will the same engineers stay on our work, and what happens if one leaves?
- Whose name are the repositories, cloud accounts and credentials in?
- Which hours will the engineers overlap with our team, and who covers holidays?
- Who do we talk to if the arrangement is not working, other than the engineer?
- How is the monthly price set, and what is not included in it?
- Can we see code the engineers have written, or do a short paid trial task?
Our guide to hiring a remote web developer covers the interview and trial-task side, and outsourcing software development to Nepal covers contracts, payments and what to expect.
Working hours overlap with Nepal
Nepal Time (NPT), UTC+5:45, no daylight saving. Daylight saving changes the gap in some markets; Nepal never moves.
| Market | Time zone | Difference | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | SGT, UTC+8 | Nepal is 2 h 15 min behind | Almost the whole working day |
| UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) | GST, UTC+4 | Nepal is 1 h 45 min ahead | Almost the whole working day |
| Australia east coast (Sydney, Melbourne) | AEST UTC+10, AEDT UTC+11 | Nepal is 4 h 15 min behind (5 h 15 min during Australian daylight saving) | Your afternoon is our morning |
| Brisbane (Queensland) | AEST UTC+10 all year | Nepal is 4 h 15 min behind, all year | Your afternoon is our morning |
| New Zealand (Auckland) | NZST UTC+12, NZDT UTC+13 | Nepal is 6 h 15 min behind (7 h 15 min during NZ daylight saving) | Your afternoon is our morning |
| United Kingdom (London) | GMT UTC+0, BST UTC+1 | Nepal is 4 h 45 min ahead in summer, 5 h 45 min in winter | Your morning is our afternoon |
| US East and Toronto (New York) | EDT UTC-4, EST UTC-5 | Nepal is 9 h 45 min ahead in summer, 10 h 45 min in winter | Your early morning is our evening; work moves overnight |
| US Central (Chicago) | CDT UTC-5, CST UTC-6 | Nepal is 10 h 45 min ahead in summer, 11 h 45 min in winter | Your early morning is our late evening; work moves overnight |
| US West and Vancouver (Los Angeles) | PDT UTC-7, PST UTC-8 | Nepal is 12 h 45 min ahead in summer, 13 h 45 min in winter | Short early or late window; mostly written, asynchronous work |
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean to hire dedicated developers?
Hiring dedicated developers means a company provides engineers who work only on your product, inside your tools and processes, for an agreed monthly price. You direct the work day to day; the provider handles employment, equipment and continuity. It sits between hiring freelancers and running a fixed-scope agency project.
How does Meritbyte's Embedded model work?
Our engineers join your standups, work in your repositories and project tools, and report to your own leads. Pricing is per engineer, per month. Code, repositories and accounts stay in your organisation's name. Tell us the role, stack and hours you need, and a person replies within one business day.
Why hire developers from Nepal?
Nepal has a growing pool of English-speaking software engineers, and its UTC+5:45 time zone gives a same-day overlap with Australia, Asia, the Gulf and the UK, plus overnight progress for North America. Rates are typically lower than in those markets, though cost should never be the only reason.
Is it better to hire dedicated developers or outsource a whole project?
Outsource a whole project when the outcome is clear and you want one company accountable for delivering it. Hire dedicated developers when you already have a product owner or tech lead, an ongoing roadmap, and want more capacity under your own direction. Meritbyte offers both.
Who owns the code written by dedicated developers?
You should, from the first commit. With Meritbyte, engineers commit to repositories in your organisation and work in accounts you control. Whoever you hire, check this in writing before work starts, because code held in a provider's accounts is hard to recover later.