Hire dedicated developers who actually integrate with your team
Full Scale staffs dedicated, full-time engineers from across the Philippines. Every developer is pre-vetted, senior, and embedded in your team. They don't juggle four other clients like a freelancer would, they aren't contractors on a fixed-bid project that ends in six weeks, and they don't get rotated to a bigger account when one shows up. You get the same engineer on your standups, in your codebase, year after year.
- One engineer, assigned only to your codebase, not shared across clients
- Your hours, your tools, your tech lead, your standups
- Full-time employees of Full Scale, not 1099 contractors
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
Recognized by Inc. 5000 four years running, plus Forbes, Deloitte, and Great Place to Work
Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
Most offshore hires I've made over the years should have been dedicated, and weren't
I've hired engineers in four countries personally and run engineering at three companies. The thing I kept relearning is that the engagement model matters as much as the resume. A freelancer juggling three other clients ships in fits and starts. A project shop hands you the B-team after the kickoff call. A shared resource at a body shop gets rotated to a bigger account the month you start counting on them.
Dedicated is the opposite of all of that. One engineer, full-time, on your codebase, on your standups, embedded in your team for as long as you want them there. That's the model Full Scale runs, and it's the one I'd want if I were on the buying side. We have placed 1,000+ Filipino engineers into U.S. SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise teams this way. Same engineer, same product, year after year.
Six things that make a developer actually dedicated
Every staffing company calls their model dedicated. Most of them mean something closer to "we'll assign someone for now." Here is what dedicated means at Full Scale, and what every dedicated engineer you hire from us gets you.
One engineer, not a queue of contractors
You get the same developer on your codebase week after week. They don't get rotated to another account, they don't share their attention with three other clients, and they don't get handed off to whoever has bandwidth this sprint.
Embedded in your team, not a vendor wall
Your tools, your standups, your tech lead, your repo. The engineer is a member of your engineering org for all practical purposes, just employed by us.
Full-time, your hours
Forty hours a week on your roadmap. Time zone overlap is built into the schedule, so you get four to six hours of live overlap with U.S. teams every business day.
We handle the back office
Payroll, HR, benefits, equipment, retention. You manage the engineer like any other report. We deal with everything that isn't shipping code.
Built for long engagements
Most clients keep the same engineer two to four years. Our 93% yearly retention means your roadmap doesn't reset every time someone leaves.
Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
If the engineer isn't right for the role, we swap them within 30 days at no cost. The dedicated model only works if the fit is real, so the guarantee is in writing.
The developers you hire ship like it's 2026, not 2018
Every Full Scale engineer comes with the modern AI toolkit and the Product Driven approach from Matt's book. The result is faster shipping, fewer rewrites, and engineers who treat the product as theirs to own instead of a queue of work to grind through.
Modern AI toolkit
Every dedicated engineer ships with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor as part of their daily workflow. AI-assisted code review, refactoring, and test generation are the default, not a separate initiative you have to fund.
Product Driven training
Engineers are trained on the same approach Matt lays out in his book on engineering leadership. They clarify scope before writing code, flag risks early, and own outcomes instead of waiting for tickets to land in the queue.
Architecture over syntax
Our hiring loop tests for system design, code review judgment, and trade-off thinking, not LeetCode trivia. The engineer you hire is someone you'd happily hand a greenfield repo to.
The engineering team behind AMC Theatres
Hire dedicated developers for any stack you ship
Pick the stack you need and we'll match you with a senior Filipino engineer who has shipped production code in it. Every chip below opens the dedicated hiring page for that stack: same model, same $35/hr fully-loaded rate, same 7-day start, just specialized to your tech.
Hire dedicated developers, two ways
Most clients start with a single dedicated developer and grow into a full team. Either way, you get full-time engineers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship code against your roadmap. Both options are staff augmentation at the core: dedicated, long-term engineers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side.
Dedicated developer
One full-time engineer, exclusively yours.
- Full-time engineer assigned only to your project
- Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
- Joins your standups, reports to your tech lead
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
Dedicated team
Multiple engineers embedded as one pod.
- 2-10 engineers staffed together as one pod
- Optional QA, DevOps, and tech lead included
- Operates as a team inside your engineering org
- Scale up or down by a head with 30 days notice
- U.S.-based account manager you can escalate to
How a dedicated developer compares to every other hiring path
Every hiring path has trade-offs. Here is how a dedicated engineer from Full Scale compares against the three alternatives most teams weigh first: a freelancer, a project shop, or a full-time U.S. hire.
| Feature | Full Scale (dedicated) | Freelancer | Project shop / fixed bid | U.S. full-time hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineer dedicated 100% to your project | ||||
| Time to first hire | 7 days | 1-3 days | 2-6 weeks | 3-6 months |
| Sits on your standups, uses your tools | ||||
| Same engineer year over year | ||||
| Long-term retention | 93%+ | low | n/a | varies |
| Replace within 30 days if not a fit | ||||
| Handles payroll, HR, benefits, equipment | ||||
| Pre-vetted senior bench | ||||
| U.S.-based account management | n/a | |||
| Typical fully-loaded cost vs. U.S. | ~30-40% | varies | ~50-65% | 100% |
One rate, fully loaded: $35/hr
That's the rate for a dedicated senior engineer in the Philippines, full-time on your team. The model is staff augmentation at the core: one engineer, your team, no setup fees, no retainers, no surprise line items. We handle the developer's pay, benefits, payroll, HR, and equipment. You manage the engineer like any other report and get one invoice a month.
- Full-time senior engineer in the Philippines
- Pre-vetted on architecture, code review, and product judgment
- Sits on your standups, works your hours
- Trained on AI workflow (Copilot, Claude, Cursor) and Product Driven
- Payroll, HR, benefits, equipment, retention: all handled by us
- U.S.-based account manager you can escalate to
- Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
- No setup fees, no minimum term beyond 90 days
From discovery call to first PR in under two weeks
The bench is already pre-vetted, so the time from "we should talk" to "engineer is shipping code" runs about 7 to 10 business days. Same model AMC Theatres used to stand up their team. Here is the path.
Tell us what you need
30-minute call to walk through your roadmap, stack, and what good looks like in the role. We come back with a shortlist tuned to your codebase, not a stack of generic resumes.
Interview pre-vetted candidates
You meet 2 to 4 engineers from our bench within 5 to 7 days. Every candidate has already passed our architecture review, code review, and product judgment screens.
Pick your engineer
You make the hire call. We handle the offer, the onboarding, the equipment, and getting them into your repo and Slack on day one.
Ship code in week one
Engineer joins your standups, gets context on the codebase, and lands their first PR inside the first week. If it isn't a fit, we swap within 30 days at no cost.
Dedicated developers, answered
Hire a dedicated developer who treats your product like their own
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll walk through your roadmap, your stack, and what good looks like in the role, then come back with a shortlist of pre-vetted senior engineers tuned to your codebase, not a stack of generic resumes.