Dedicated Frontend Engineers
Hire Frontend Developers
Frontend engineers who treat performance and accessibility as requirements.
A slow, inaccessible interface costs you rankings and customers quietly. We place engineers who measure both instead of assuming.
Quick Answer
Updated August 22, 2026
What does it cost to hire a frontend developer?
A senior frontend developer from India costs $32–$45 per hour, about ₹3.5–5 lakh per month full time, with mid-level at $22–$32 per hour. What separates the bands is not framework knowledge but judgment: a senior frontend engineer decides what belongs in state, where a component boundary goes, and what the performance budget is, before writing code that a team then has to live with.
Senior hourly rate
$32 – $45
Delivery standard
WCAG AA and Core Web Vitals
Time to start
5 – 10 working days
Best for
- Products with a substantial interface surface and a design system
- Teams whose Core Web Vitals or accessibility scores are hurting them
- Backend-strong teams that need a real interface specialist
Not best for
- Products where the hard problems are all in the data layer
- Static marketing sites better served by a CMS
- Work with no design direction available at all
Rate Card
What does it cost to hire frontend developers?
Frontend prices at the standard band. Accessibility remediation and performance recovery engagements are usually scoped as fixed-price projects rather than dedicated seats, because the work has a defined end.
| Level | Experience | Monthly (INR) | Hourly (USD) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 3–5 years | ₹2,20,000 – ₹3,20,000 | $22 – $32 | Feature delivery inside an existing codebase and review structure |
| Senior | 5–8 years | ₹3,50,000 – ₹5,00,000 | $32 – $45 | Owning a module end to end, setting patterns, reviewing others |
| Lead / architect | 8+ years | ₹5,00,000 – ₹6,50,000 | $45 – $60 | Architecture, delivery sequencing, and technical accountability |
Rates are for dedicated engagements with at least four hours of daily overlap with your working hours. Longer commitments reduce the rate; more overlap increases it.
Capability
What our frontend developers actually do
- Component architecture and design-system implementation from a Figma library
- Rendering performance — bundle splitting, virtualisation, layout-shift prevention
- Accessibility that passes an audit: focus management, ARIA, contrast, keyboard paths
- State and data-fetching architecture that stays legible as the app grows
- Responsive and adaptive layout across real device sizes, not just breakpoints
- Cross-browser behaviour, including the ones your analytics say you still have
Working stack
We staff for the stack you already run wherever we can. Where we think a different choice would serve you better, we will say so once — with the reasoning — and then work in yours.
Common Engagements
What teams usually hire frontend engineers for
Design system build-out
Turning a design library into typed, accessible, documented components with real usage guidelines.
Core Web Vitals recovery
Diagnosing the actual source of LCP and CLS problems and fixing the cause rather than the symptom.
Accessibility remediation
Bringing an existing product up to WCAG AA, usually because a customer or regulator has asked for it.
Complex data interfaces
Tables, filters, and editors that stay responsive at scale and remain usable by keyboard.
Vetting
How we decide who is good enough to place
Vetting is the entire value of hiring through an agency rather than a marketplace. If we are not rejecting most applicants, we are not doing the job you are paying for.
Step 1
Technical interview
A senior engineer from our team runs the interview. Not a recruiter with a checklist, and not an automated coding test.
Step 2
Practical exercise
A task close to the work you are actually hiring for, reviewed the way we would review a pull request.
Step 3
Reference and delivery check
We ask what they shipped recently, who reviewed it, and what went wrong on it. The last question is the useful one.
Step 4
Fit call with you
You speak to the engineer before committing. If the fit is wrong at that point, nothing has been signed.
Comparison
A frontend specialist vs a full stack engineer covering the UI
A full stack engineer can build an interface. Whether they will build one that passes an audit is a different question.
With SoftwareCrafting
- Accessibility and performance budgets agreed before the build starts
- Component boundaries designed rather than emerging from copy-paste
- Real device and screen-reader testing, not just a desktop browser
- Design-system discipline, so the tenth screen costs less than the first
Typical alternative
- Accessibility handled as a post-launch ticket, if at all
- Performance noticed when a customer complains
- Components duplicated because reuse was never designed in
- A UI that works on the developer machine and nowhere else
Engagement Models
Four ways to work with us, and when each one fits
Dedicated seat
One engineer working full time inside your team, your repo, and your process. Monthly rolling, two weeks notice.
Ongoing roadmap work with no defined end date
Part-time seat
From roughly 20 hours a week. Below that, context reloading eats most of the value, and we will say so.
Specialist input alongside an existing team
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable at an agreed price. Only where scope is genuinely clear enough to fix without a change-request cycle.
Migrations, audits, and well-specified builds
Delivery pod
Three to four people including QA and a named delivery owner accountable for the sprint outcome.
Whole product areas you want owned end to end
What you get either way
- You interview the engineer before anything is signed
- Replacement at our cost if the fit is wrong in the first two weeks
- IP assignment and NDA signed before technical access is granted
- Code committed to your repository, under your organisation, from day one
- Monthly rolling contract — two weeks notice, no annual lock-in
Quick Brief
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Tell us the role, the stack, and when you need someone. We will come back with availability and a rate.
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FAQ
Questions buyers ask before hiring frontend engineers
How much does it cost to hire a frontend developer in India?
Mid-level frontend developers cost $22–$32 per hour and seniors $32–$45 per hour, roughly ₹2.2–3.2 lakh and ₹3.5–5 lakh per month on a dedicated full-time seat.
Do your frontend developers work from Figma?
Yes, and we prefer it. A component-based Figma library with defined tokens makes the build faster and the result closer to intent. We will flag gaps in the design before implementation rather than inventing answers silently.
Can you fix our Core Web Vitals?
Yes. We measure on a production build with medians across multiple runs, on mobile and desktop, because single-run numbers routinely point at the wrong cause. Then we change one thing at a time and re-measure.
Do you handle accessibility compliance?
We build to WCAG 2.2 AA and can remediate an existing product to that standard. We are engineers, not a certification body — if you need a formal audit signed off, that comes from a specialist accessibility firm and we will work alongside them.
Which frontend frameworks do you work in?
React and Next.js primarily, with React Native and Flutter on mobile. We do not staff Angular or Vue, and we will tell you that immediately rather than putting someone on a framework they learned last month.
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