Stop Waiting Months to Hire. Onboard Software Developers in 14 Days.
We place production-ready nearshore software developers — full-stack, backend, frontend, AI/ML, DevOps — in 14 days, for 70% less than a US hire. Native English, your time zone, month-to-month.
- Every developer completes a live coding challenge, a system design exercise, and a communication screen before you ever see their name. By the time they reach your calendar, the hard part is done.
- React, Node, Python, AWS, Shopify, AI/ML — we match candidates who have shipped real systems in the technologies you run, not candidates who list them on a CV.
- Payroll, compliance, international employment, and monthly retention check-ins — all on us. You manage the roadmap.
We do the work. You pick your developer.
Four steps. Fourteen days. One software developer who's already been through a technical screen, a live coding challenge, and a system design review.
Lock the Brief
Day 1You tell us the stack, the role, and what great looks like. We finalize the job description within 24 hours.
We Source & Screen
Days 2–8600+ applicants sourced. Live coding challenge in your stack, system design review, English communication screen.
You Interview the Shortlist
Days 9–12We book you three intro calls with candidates in the first week. This is your chance to assess culture and communication fit, and screen them your way.
We Handle Everything Else
Day 14Contracts, payroll, compliance, and monthly retention check-ins. You manage the code. We manage everything else.
Matched to your stack. Not just familiar with it.
We don't screen for familiarity. We screen for shipped code — real pull requests, real production systems, real debugging at 2am. Here's what the software developers we place actually work in.
Every way companies typically hire software developers has a serious problem.
You've probably lived through at least one of these. Here's what each one actually costs you.
90 days of recruiting for a role your team needed filled 90 days ago.
Job posting, resume review, recruiter calls, technical screens you have to run yourself, offer negotiation, counter-offers. By the time someone starts, you've burned a sprint just on hiring admin and your existing developers covered the work the whole time.
Night-shift code reviews and 40% annual turnover.
The developer working at 2am their time writes code at 2am quality. The async lag kills your sprint velocity. And when a better-hours job shows up, they take it and you restart the cycle with a new hire who needs three months to understand the codebase.
Every profile is 5 stars. You find out the truth in week two.
Vetted by other clients who also had no way to properly assess them. You discover the gap between their portfolio and their actual abilities after they've touched your production database. Then you start over.
Recruiters who can't tell React from Angular submitting CVs to you.
They can't assess a coding challenge. They don't know the difference between your stack and a candidate's passing familiarity with it. They place whoever they have on their bench, not whoever is right for your codebase. We run our own technical screens. They don't.
What nearshore developers cost through Scale Army.
No placement fees. Ever.
Starting ranges. Actual salaries depend on experience, seniority, and specific stack. All month-to-month. No lock-in, no placement fees, free replacement if it doesn't work out.
Scale Army vs. every other way you could hire a software developer.
You have four options. Here's what each one actually looks like.
| Scale Army | Hire Directly | Other Agency | Upwork | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | 14 days | 3–5 months | 6–12 weeks | 1–2 weeks |
| Live coding screen | ✓ | You run it | Sometimes | — |
| Technical vetting by engineers | ✓ | — | — | — |
| US time-zone aligned | ✓ | Depends | Not guaranteed | — |
| Native English | ✓ | ✓ | Not guaranteed | — |
| Payroll & compliance handled | ✓ | — | Sometimes | — |
| Retention management | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Free replacement guarantee | ✓ | — | Sometimes | — |
| Month-to-month, no lock-in | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| No placement fees | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Cost | From $2,999/mo | $120K–$180K/yr | $15K–$30K fee + salary | Unpredictable |
From teams who hired a software developer through Scale Army and didn't look back.
A global bench.
Ready in 14 days.
We don't start searching when you submit a brief. We've spent years sourcing, vetting, and staying in contact with the best software developer talent across four regions — so when you need someone, they're already there.
Built by someone who had the same problem you have.
Alex founded Scale Army after leading growth at several high-growth, venture-backed startups where he saw firsthand how the best companies scaled faster by unlocking the global talent market while their competitors burned months on domestic hiring cycles that never ended.
Today, Scale Army operates across the U.S. and 14 other countries. The engineering team that builds and maintains our own platform is entirely nearshore. We don't just place this model. We depend on it. Every software developer we put in front of you is held to the same standard we use internally.
Things people ask before they stop overthinking and hire.
Your roadmap is waiting. Your developer shouldn't be.
Tell us the stack, the role, and what a great hire looks like to you. We run the technical screens, source the candidates, and get someone starting in 14 days.
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