Hire Junior Go developer

When you Hire Junior Go developer through smartbrain.io you avoid the hidden costs that inflate in-house salaries—recruiter commissions, onboarding overhead, hardware, taxes, and benefits can add 25-40 % to base pay. Outstaffing shifts those line-items to a single all-inclusive rate, payable only for productive hours. Our blended hourly fee already covers payroll, local compliance, retention programs, and replacement guarantees. In most U.S. metros that translates to savings of USD 6,000–9,000 per developer each month. Additionally, you free internal HR, finance, and legal teams from administrative load, enabling them to focus on strategic initiatives instead of head-count paperwork. Over a standard 12-month engagement the total cost of ownership can be less than half that of a direct hire while still granting you full day-to-day control of tasks, code reviews, and roadmap priorities—best of both worlds.

Intellectual-property security starts with contracts. Every Junior Go developer we assign signs a stringent invention-assignment agreement aligned with U.S. law, plus a project-specific NDA that names your company as sole owner of all deliverables. smartbrain.io is incorporated in Delaware and bound by U.S. jurisdiction, giving you straightforward legal recourse. Source code lives in repositories you control; we provision access through SSO and enforce MFA. All engineers work on hardened virtual desktops with disabled external drives, automatic log-out, and network traffic monitoring. We also perform quarterly security audits and can add client-specific clauses such as on-shore data residency or SOC 2 reporting to meet industry regulations. In short, you retain 100 % IP ownership while benefiting from global outstaffing economics.

Yes. Our talent network spans North America, LATAM, and Eastern Europe, allowing us to offer at least 4–6 hours of real-time overlap with any U.S. time zone. During onboarding we confirm preferred stand-up slots, code-review windows, and demo schedules. For follow-the-sun projects we can staff split-shift pods so code moves forward 20+ hours per day without burning out individual developers. Slack and Jira integrations keep communication transparent regardless of geography, ensuring your Agile rituals continue uninterrupted.

Our standard agreement is month-to-month with a 14-day notice period. This flexibility lets you right-size squads as feature roadmaps evolve. There are no early-termination penalties, minimum seat requirements, or retainer fees—pay only for the hours consumed. Should you wish to convert a Junior Go developer to your payroll, we offer a straightforward buy-out path after six months of service.

Each applicant passes four gates: (1) asynchronous cognitive and English tests; (2) a timed Go coding challenge covering Goroutines, channels, and standard-library mastery; (3) live pair-programming under a senior Go architect who probes debugging habits; and (4) a values interview assessing ownership and communication. Barely 3 % reach our talent bench. We re-evaluate performance quarterly through project feedback and code-quality metrics, ensuring consistent excellence.

Absolutely. Performance is measured against KPIs defined during kickoff. If the fit isn’t right within the first 14 days, we replace the engineer at no cost, typically within 48 hours. Post-trial, you still retain swap rights—just provide written feedback and a 5-day window for knowledge transfer. Our bench depth makes transitions seamless.

After the 15-minute discovery call we deliver a shortlist within 48 hours. Interviews are scheduled on your calendar the same week, and most clients sign the MSA and SOW within one business day afterward. First commit usually lands in your repository by day five. Need multiple developers? We can scale pods in parallel, maintaining this rapid timeline through our always-on recruiting pipeline.

In-house recruiting can take 6–12 weeks, costs 20 % of salary in agency fees, and locks you into payroll even when roadmaps change. Outstaffing offers on-demand capacity with no fixed overhead, rapid onboarding, and an easy exit clause.

All juniors join an internal guild led by staff-engineers who run weekly code-clinics, architecture reviews, and performance retros, ensuring your project benefits from collective expertise.

Yes. You choose which profiles to meet, run your own technical screens, or skip straight to trial tasks—whatever fits your existing hiring workflow.

One developer for one month is our only minimum. You can start small, prove value, then expand to a managed pod later.

We provide secure virtual desktops; any specialty licences stay under your enterprise agreement, preserving compliance.

USD, EUR, and GBP via ACH, SWIFT, or credit card. No crypto at this time.

Developers log daily stand-up notes, push code to your repo, and update Jira tickets; we add lightweight time-tracking only if requested.

After six months you may hire directly for a fixed conversion fee equal to one month’s service rate.

Absolutely—our engineers commit pull requests and follow your CI/CD policies, but final merge and release rights stay with your maintainers.

We align with major U.S. holidays for North-American teams; global engineers adjust schedules to keep coverage balanced.