Shipping the product
New features, fixes and the interface customers use every day. Look at a Full-Stack Developer or a Frontend Developer, paired with a UI/UX Designer when screens need rethinking. A QA Tester keeps regressions out of production.
SaaS and startups
Grow the team before the roadmap outgrows it.
Remote hires for the work a young software company can't put off: shipping product, keeping customers and filling the pipeline.
What usually breaks first
In an early software company, everyone does two jobs. The founder who writes code also answers support tickets. The founder who sells also onboards every new account. It works until it doesn't: releases slow down, trial users go quiet, and nobody has looked at outbound for a month. The fix is usually one or two well-chosen hires, made before the strain shows in the numbers.
Where a remote hire takes over
AI features
Language-model features inside the product sit with an AI Engineer. Internal automation between your tools sits with an AI Workflow Specialist.
Keeping customers
Tier 2 product questions go to a Customer Service Agent. Onboarding, renewals and accounts at risk go to a Customer Success Manager.
Filling the pipeline
Outbound and booked demos come from a Sales Development Representative. Partnerships come from a Business Development Manager.
Buying back founder hours
The first hires in a startup are often about the founders as much as the product. An Executive Assistant can take over the inbox, investor scheduling and board prep, and a Project Manager can run delivery so the technical founder can get back to building.
Setting it up
Each role here is available on whichever of our hiring options suits your stage. For a first engineering pod, see hiring a team. Costs vary with the role and the scope.
Questions from software companies
Does our IP stay with us?
Yes. You own the code your hire writes, whichever way you hire.
Can a new engineer work inside our sprint process?
That's the expectation. Share your repositories, tooling and sprint rhythm, and candidates are tested against that setup.
What's slowing the roadmap?
A sentence or two about the bottleneck is enough to start. The hire that would move it usually becomes clear quickly.