Hire a mobile engineer
Ships the app and everything around it: builds, signing, store review, crash reports, the second release.
Rates last reviewed 2026-08-15. A single role can sit below our blended engagement floor of $55 per hour, because the floor applies to a whole project team rather than to one person.
What this role does here
- iOS and Android, native or cross-platform, decided by your case rather than by fashion
- Store submission, review responses and phased rollout
- Offline behaviour, permissions and push, which is where mobile projects actually run late
- Crash reporting and the first fix after launch
When you need one
You need an app rather than a website in a shell, or your existing app has stopped building on somebody laptop and nobody remembers the certificates.
A signed build on your device, the release pipeline in your account rather than ours, and an honest list of what the app store will object to.
How the engagement works
The same terms as any other project with us. Nothing on this page is a different contract.
The contract is with our American company, whoever does the work and wherever they sit.
You meet the person before the engagement starts, and they stay on it.
Time and materials with a ceiling you set, or a fixed price for defined scope.
Code, design files and accounts transfer to you. 30 days of defect fixes after handover.
Where this role usually works
All servicesWeb platforms, internal systems and mobile apps built to run in production for years, not to demo well once. We take the product from a written scope to a deployed system with monitoring, backups and a team that can hand it over.
Interface design that survives contact with real data: empty states, error states, long names, slow networks and the screen nobody drew. Delivered as a design system your engineers can build from, not as a set of pictures.
Questions about this role
Native or cross-platform?
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Cross-platform for most business apps, native when the product lives on the camera, on background location or on platform APIs that change every year. We give the reason, not the preference.
Who owns the store accounts?
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You do, from the first day. We publish from your developer account, not from ours, because an app in somebody else account is not your app.
Need a mobile engineer?
Say what the work is and how long it runs. You get a name, a rate and a start date within one business day.