React & Next.js engineers
App Router, server components, and product shells, not a 2020 SPA wrapped in a framework name.
React · Next.js · TypeScript
Frontend developers users actually notice
Your UI is the first thing customers touch, and the fastest place to lose them. iQud frontend engineers ship React and Next.js product surfaces with design-system fluency, Core Web Vitals discipline, and accessibility treated as an engineering requirement.
- React, Next.js & TypeScript
- Design systems & Storybook
- WCAG on new surfaces
- First PR in about a week
Frontend delivery signals
- 5 dTypical time to first pull request
- 90+Lighthouse target on new UI
- AAWCAG baseline, not a retrofit
- 2 wkSprint cadence with UI review
The frontend seats we actually staff
“Frontend” is not one job. We match on the specialization your product needs, the same stacks behind iQud’s live technology pages.
01 02 Design-system specialists
Tokens, theming, and reusable components so the next feature inherits the last one.
03 Performance-minded UI
Bundle splits, image strategy, and Core Web Vitals treated as conversion work, not a late audit.
04 Accessibility in the PR
Keyboard paths, semantics, and contrast on new surfaces, documented when we have to deviate.
05 Angular / Vue when that is your stack
Enterprise Angular modules or Vue product admin, only if we already deliver that stack.
06 Design-to-code pairing
Figma in the same sprint as GitHub. Deviations are written down so design intent survives implementation.
Tools they open on day one
Every tile is a live iQud technology page. We will not staff a frontend stack we do not already ship.
Front End
From intro call to a merged PR
A frontend hire should be shipping components in your repo, not sitting in a two-month onboarding theatre.
1 Map the UI gap
Stack, Figma, seniority, overlap hours, and what “done in 30 days” looks like on the interface.
2 Shortlist real engineers
We match available frontend specialists to your brief and share relevant product UI work.
3 You interview
Meet the human who will join standup. Validate component craft and how they talk through design.
4 First sprint in your tools
Repo access, design files, and a first pull request, typically inside a week once you say go.
Start with one seat. Grow if the backlog says so.
Most clients embed a single frontend engineer first. A pod or a rebuild only when the UI work actually needs it.
One embedded engineer
A React or Next.js specialist joins your squad, takes direction from your lead, and works in your rituals.
Best forClosing a UI velocity gap without a new vendor process
Dedicated frontend seat
A stable owner for a surface (design system, app shell, or customer-facing flows) with senior review on the sprint.
Best forA product area that needs a named UI owner
Scoped UI initiative
A defined rebuild: design-system rollout, marketing shell, or a module with Figma already in motion.
Best forA milestone you can point at, not an open-ended bench
Frontend hiring rates, in writing
Two ways to staff a React / Next.js engineer. Hourly for spikes and defined tickets. A dedicated monthly seat when you want someone in your standup every day, at a lower effective rate than running the clock.
Hire by the hour
$20/ hour
Flexible frontend capacity for UI spikes, reviews, and scoped tickets. You only pay for hours worked.
- Same product UI engineers as a monthly seat
- Best for overflow, a design-system patch, or a single module
- Start fast, pause when the spike is done
- Billed against actual hours, not a retainer
Best value
Hire for a month
$2,000/ month
A named frontend engineer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated UI capacity, with senior review in the cadence.
A full-time month at $20 is $3,200. This seat is $2,000.
- Named engineer in your repo, Figma, and standup
- Design-system and Core Web Vitals work included
- Month-to-month. No annual lock-in.
- Lower cost than the same hours billed at $20
Rates are for dedicated frontend engineers (React, Next.js, TypeScript). Seniority mix and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call. We will not quote a stack we do not already ship.
Why product teams staff frontend here
A mediocre frontend developer produces a demo that works on their laptop. These engineers produce UI that survives real users, real devices, and your next quarter of features.
Specialists, not “full-stack who can do CSS”
They live in the browser: hydration, re-renders, design tokens, and why your INP score dropped last release.
Your Figma, your GitHub, your hours
GIFT City overlap with Europe and the US. Design reviews happen live when your designers are online.
Senior eyes on the sprint
Mid-level speed without unsupervised design-system debt. Review is part of the engagement, not an extra SKU.
Ten clients a quarter, on purpose
We do not run a revolving bench. Capacity is limited so the engineer you interview is the one in standup.
Frontend hiring questions
Start with one. Most clients embed a single senior or mid-level frontend engineer, then add a pair if the UI backlog justifies it.
React, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, and Tailwind. TypeScript is standard. We will not staff a frontend stack we do not already deliver.
After we map the role and you approve the hire, first pull requests typically land within a week, faster when the repo and Figma are ready.
Yes. Figma, Jira, GitHub, your standups. We do not invent a parallel process unless you ask for one.
No. New UI is reviewed for keyboard use, semantics, and WCAG AA. Dedicated audit work can be scoped if you already have a large inaccessible surface.
Hourly ($20) is for spikes and defined tickets. You pay only for hours worked. The monthly seat ($2,000) is a named frontend engineer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated capacity. The same month billed hourly would be $3,200. Seniority and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call.
Give the product a frontend it can grow with
Tell us the stack, the Figma, and the first surface you want shipped. We’ll come back with a named profile, a start window, and a two-week plan.