Remote work is becoming more popular every day and already takes a huge part in the IT market. Hiring a freelance developer or development team is cheaper and has other advantages over hiring employees directly into your company. But hiring developers personally may be a daunting and time-consuming process. In this article, we will tell you how to hire developers online and avoid the most popular mistakes.

How to hire a developer online -tips and tricks

Here are some tips and tricks on how to hire a developer online, who will suit your requirements and needs the most:

1. Research the market: spend some time browsing online hiring platforms and remote job boards. You can find a list of the most popular sources later in this article
2. Estimate your budget: be sure of what price you can spend on the project and try to find solutions based on this value. Remember: the price of hiring developers depends on their qualifications and the region where developers are based. Eastern Europe region is considered to be one of the cheapest regions in terms of hourly rates.
   IMPORTANT: Do not hurry to choose the cheapest deals, you may end up paying twice or more.
3. Prepare clear requirements: try to include as many details as possible. If you are familiar with IT development, you may specify technologies that you want to be used by developers in your project. If you are not – not a problem, leave this for experienced developers, they will do the right choice for you.
4. Set priorities: let your team know, which features of your project are important and need to be included in the initial deploy, and which may be added later with updates. The earlier you will let developers know about this, the higher chance to have all the needed features released on time as planned.

How to hire freelance developers and where you can find them?

The easiest way to hire freelance developers is to visit the most popular international freelance networks, which have a big amount of different offers available and are updated with new ones consistently every day. The biggest of them are:

• upwork.com – UpWork is the most well-known and highly used freelance job site on the internet. Gets over 60,000 new freelance jobs posted every week.
• toptal.com – TopTal was intended for freelance software developers only, but since 2015 expanded from software development and now includes designers as well.
• linkedin.com – LinkedIn Jobs is the largest professional social network and a good place to find freelance developers

There are a lot of smaller websites that may help you to find freelance developers. Find ones that you like and don’t forget to use all of them together. This will increase your chances to find developers fast and without any issues.

It’s better to hire a development team than freelance developers

Hiring freelance developers may save you money, but may also bring a list of problems, which can take time and budget to solve. Hiring multiple freelancers means that they will need some time to establish proper communication in the newly created team. With 99% probability, people you hire never worked with each other before in the team, which may bring difficulties which will slow down your project development and may decrease its quality. At the same time, people you hire as freelancers may work not only on your project at the moment, which means that they will be not as focused on your goals as you would like to. The solution for avoiding such situations is to hire a development team, which has experience working together on the same projects and has all communications and management established properly.

Developers in BWC.Technology – how can we help you?

BWC.Technology can solve all these problems and help you to:

• save on internal resources
• isolate from complex technical topics
• save time on team and process definition
• save time and focus to prepare detailed requirements
• save time on testing

We work with proven technology partners to establish dedicated development teams, agile working practices, and deliver digital product increments. BWC.Technology is experienced to comply with elevated quality standards having worked for large clients on multinational projects. Our team will guide you through the process of transforming your idea into a working digital product.