If you are a software development company, a SaaS business, or even a company that isn’t generally focused on software but needs developers for a particular engagement, chances are you’ve considered hiring tech experts to quickly build a development team.
Many questions revolve around finding the right people for the job, such as:
Is it better to hire in-house developers in a traditional position?
Will you be able to track freelancers' working hours?
How do you staff for a short-term engagement?
How do you find someone with many years of experience?
These are only some of the issues that might arise when forming a distributed team, and the more specific your needs are, the harder it will be to find the right freelancer.
But we’re here to help, and in this article, we’ll let you know how our developers can be a better solution for you and why.
Key Takeaways
Rigorous vetting: Proxify developers undergo multi-stage technical and soft-skill screenings, ensuring higher quality than unvetted marketplace freelancers.
High English proficiency: Every developer is interviewed 1-on-1 to guarantee seamless communication and eliminate language barriers.
Dedicated engagement: Unlike typical gig-workers, Proxify developers focus on one client at a time to maintain high productivity and quality.
Cultural alignment: Matching goes beyond technical skills to include traits like professionalism, self-initiative, and timeliness.
Risk-free trial: A replacement guarantee ensures that if a developer isn't the right fit, they are replaced at no additional cost.
1. They are vetted and approved by recruitment specialists
Proxify’s developers have passed multiple screening stages, technical interviews, coding tests, and direct work with recruitment specialists. In contrast, trying to find a good developer yourself on a job platform means you will have to rely on reviews from past clients and the volume of gigs completed.
Instead of jumping into the unknown and hoping the freelancer knows what they’re doing, you can work with people who have impressed professional recruiters and technical interviewers with their technical skills, soft skills, and, more importantly, people skills!
2. They speak great English
We are happy to live and work in a connected world and to hire talented developers from every part of the globe. But the ability to hire globally can sometimes be a double-edged sword, as miscommunication can occur more frequently.
On freelancing platforms, there are people from all over the world, and although there are some internal language tests one needs to pass to work on the platform, one doesn’t need to talk to a real person before joining.
Unlike those, at Proxify we spend a lot of time talking to our potential developers in 1-on-1 sessions, thereby assessing their English proficiency. With our tech experts, you can be confident that communication gaps caused by poor English won’t be a problem.
3. They are the best out of thousands of candidates a month
We will be immodest and say that these days, we can afford to cherry-pick the best of the best on their job search. We have thousands of candidates applying to join the Proxify network every month, and we only pick the top best that really excel in development.
4. They don’t juggle multiple clients
How can you ensure that your full-time developers contracted through a hiring platform don’t, in fact, work for multiple clients at the same time?
Hustle culture and the inability of project managers and CTOs to work with their developers under the same roof make it possible for some freelancers to juggle multiple clients at once. And even though they are allowed to, if they are working a gig, it might affect their productivity and the quality of their work.
But Proxify’s developers mostly work full-time with one client, and although we allow part-time hiring, we ensure our members have as many clients as they can handle while delivering timely, high-quality work.
5. They have a community to lean on
When your network has more than a thousand peers, all working across varied technologies and specializing in multiple languages and frameworks, it would be foolish not to leverage this advantage.
Proxify members have a community that they can lean on in specific situations, and speed up their career progression by learning from colleagues and giving their five cents back.
6. Ready to start working in days
If, after you have your jobs posted, you don’t see any hiring results for weeks, perhaps you should rethink your strategy. Or try to let our client managers find you a suitable developer for the role you've offered in a couple of days. They are the people who know the ins and outs of work engagements, as well as the skills and capabilities of all our members, so they can quickly make the right match.
7. Always motivated to pitch in with ideas, not just to execute tasks
It is a very rational fear that an employee who might not be hired for the long term doesn’t really want to pitch in ideas and participate in strategic and business decisions. This is one of the risks of hiring freelancers – the gig economy made us work, well, gigs.
But plenty of clients at Proxify manage to include their freelance developers not only in the day-to-day operations, but also in strategic thinking and long-term planning since they stay for a long time.
8. They will be matched for your culture, not just your tech stack
We realize that it is very important for an employer and employee to have a good rapport, so we make sure we don’t just hire for the work engagement, but also for the team culture.
Our acquisition specialists ensure candidates possess the right attributes to be a great colleague, including:
Professionalism and punctuality
Modesty and presentability
Self-initiative
A healthy dose of self-criticism
So, our specialists make sure to match the right tech expert to the suitable culture too.
9. They have competitive compensation
Our members don’t charge for short-term projects, unlike many developers on some freelancing platforms.
Instead of a flat hourly rate, we use a fair system that calculates costs based on:
Level of experience
Specific tech stack
Availability of skills in a given technology
Developer location
When all these factors are weighed, in the long term, our tech experts' rates are much more affordable than those of many of our competitors.
10. You can work with them risk-free
The last, but not least important trait of Proxify members is that by hiring them, you work risk-free. What does this mean? Well, if you don’t click for any given reason, but you still like the service and other aspects of working with Proxify, you don’t have to pay, and we’ll match you with another developer at no additional cost.
