Hire frontend developers.
Your users judge the product by the UI. Put seniors on it.
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Senior engineers
In your repo and standups.
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Monthly terms
Stop with 2 weeks' notice.
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No hiring process
No recruiters. No notice periods.
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You own the code
100% of the IP, day one.
To hire frontend developers in 2026, look for seniors who write strict TypeScript, know one framework deeply (React with Next.js, Vue 3 or Angular), treat Core Web Vitals and accessibility as requirements, and keep server state out of global stores. Yarify gives you senior frontend engineers on monthly terms with 2 weeks' notice, or a fixed-price build. Senior market rates run about $60–80 per hour in Central Europe and $140–200+ in the US.
A component assembler vs a senior frontend engineer
Assembles screens
- Copies a UI kit, ships 2 MB of JavaScript
- Spinners everywhere, no empty or error states
- Keyboard users stuck on the first modal
- Every API change breaks the build at runtime
Owns the experience
- Server rendering where it pays, code split elsewhere
- Loading, empty and error states designed upfront
- Accessible by default, tested with a keyboard
- Types generated from the API contract
Frontend stacks we hire out
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React
Hooks, Suspense, TanStack Query.
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Next.js
App Router, server components.
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Vue 3 and Nuxt
Composition API, Pinia.
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Angular
Signals, standalone components.
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TypeScript
Strict mode, shared types.
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Responsive and PWA
One codebase, every screen.
The front end is where users meet your bugs
A backend bug shows up in a log. A frontend bug shows up as a lost signup, a checkout that hangs on a slow phone or a form a screen-reader user cannot submit. That is why we only put seniors on it.
Pick the stack page that matches yours: React, Next.js, Vue, Angular or TypeScript. Need the API too? Hire full-stack developers instead.
Hiring takes months. We start building.
Hiring a developer
- Job post & sourcing
- Interviews
- Notice period
- Onboarding
- Building
Yarify
- Call + fixed quote
- Building + weekly demos
- Live. Iterating with users.
Illustrative timeline. In-house hiring usually spends months on sourcing, interviews and notice periods before the first commit.
Three ways to hire frontend developers
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Staff augmentation
A senior frontend engineer joins your sprints, repo and reviews. Monthly, 2 weeks' notice.
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Dedicated team
Frontend plus backend and design support, owning a product area end to end. Monthly.
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Fixed-price build
A redesign, migration or new app with a written scope and a fixed quote. Overruns on our estimate are ours.
What a senior frontend developer does
- Measures Core Web Vitals before and after every major change
- Designs loading, empty, error and offline states, not just the happy path
- Keeps server data in a query cache, not in a global store
- Builds forms that validate on both client and server
- Meets WCAG 2.2 AA: focus order, labels, contrast, reduced motion
- Writes component and end-to-end tests for the flows that make money
Interview questions for frontend developers
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Our LCP is 4 seconds. Where do you start?
Field data first, then the LCP element: image size and priority, render-blocking fonts, server response, hydration cost. Not a rewrite.
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Where does this piece of state live?
URL, server cache, form or component. Seniors put most state in the first two and justify every global store.
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How do you test accessibility?
Automated checks catch a third. Listen for keyboard walkthroughs, screen-reader spot checks and semantic HTML first.
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The API changed and prod broke. How do we stop that?
Generated types or a schema contract checked in CI, so a breaking change fails the build, not the user.
Frontend developer rates by region
Hourly market bands from industry surveys. Not our price list: we quote after a free call.
| Region | Junior | Mid-level | Senior |
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| United States | $70–100 | $100–140 | $140–200+ |
| Western Europe | $55–80 | $80–110 | $110–160 |
| Central & Eastern Europe | $30–45 | $45–60 | $60–80 |
| Latin America | $35–50 | $50–65 | $65–90 |
| South & Southeast Asia | $20–32 | $32–42 | $42–55 |
A senior CEE frontend engineer runs about $9.6k–12.8k per full-time month at market rates. See software developer rates.
Your UI. Your code. Zero lock-in.
Monthly billing. Stop with 2 weeks' notice. You own 100% of the code and IP from day one, in your repository, not ours.
- Design tokens and components documented
- Lighthouse and accessibility checks in CI
Front ends we shipped
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Astrooly: Paid SaaS in Three Languages
Multilingual astrology SaaS: natal chart engine, AI-assisted readings, Stripe checkout in 3 languages with country pricing, server-side referral attribution, admin dashboard, GTM analytics.
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Osvita Poland: Admissions Made Clear
Ukrainian-first, mobile-first admissions site for a study-abroad consultancy. Five-step process, consultation form above the fold, Next.js and TypeScript, live in four weeks.
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Selling 576 Homes Before the Tower Exists
Off-plan sales platform for a 62-floor, 576-residence tower. Next.js and GSAP, five-step buyer journey, mobile-first, live in six weeks.
Questions buyers ask us
How much does it cost to hire a frontend developer?
Industry surveys put senior frontend developers at about $60–80 per hour in Central and Eastern Europe, $110–160 in Western Europe and $140–200+ in the US. A senior CEE month is roughly $9.6k–12.8k. We quote monthly or fixed-price after a free call.
React, Vue or Angular: which should we hire for?
Hire for the framework you already run. For a new product, React with Next.js has the largest hiring pool, Vue is quick to learn and pleasant for smaller teams, and Angular suits large enterprise apps with many developers. We work in all three.
Can a frontend developer fix our slow site?
Usually, yes. Most slow front ends suffer from oversized images, too much client JavaScript, render-blocking fonts or waterfalls of API calls. A senior measures first and fixes the few things that move Core Web Vitals.
Do your frontend developers also design?
They implement designs precisely and make sensible UX calls on states and edge cases. For a full brand or product design we work from your designer's Figma files or bring in a designer for the project.
Can you migrate our old front end?
Yes: AngularJS, Vue 2, Create React App or jQuery to a current stack, screen by screen behind the same URLs, without a feature freeze. It can run as a fixed-price project with a written scope.
Who owns the code?
You do, from day one. The engineer commits to your repository and the contract assigns all IP to you. End the engagement with 2 weeks' notice and keep everything.
Keep reading
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React developers
Senior React engineers for dashboards, internal tools and design systems. They untangle state, fix re-renders and add tests. Join your team monthly or take a fixed-price project.
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Next.js developers
Senior Next.js engineers for App Router builds, Pages Router migrations, caching and SEO fixes, Stripe and auth. Join your team monthly or own a fixed-price build.
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Vue developers
Senior Vue engineers for Vue 3 and Nuxt apps, Pinia state and Vue 2 migrations. Clean composables, typed components and tests. Join your team monthly or take a fixed-price project.
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Angular developers
Senior Angular engineers for enterprise front ends: signals, standalone components, RxJS done right and version upgrades. Join your team monthly or take a fixed-price upgrade.
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Full-stack developers
Senior full-stack engineers who own a feature from data model to deploy: API, UI, auth, payments and monitoring. Monthly augmentation, a dedicated team or a fixed-price build.
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Web app development
Fast, SEO-ready web applications in Next.js and React: customer-facing apps, sales platforms and portals, with performance and search built into the architecture.
Faster screens. Fewer support tickets.
30 minutes with a senior frontend engineer. Bring the screen your users complain about most.