Hire a Top-quality dev TODAY
without draining your startup’s budget
// Introducing the perfect alternative for startups. Hire quality developers right now.
(And a $100 ‘startup savior’ credit) ← If you get on an interview with your match — and you still think our competitors’ devs are better? You’ll get a $100 credit to use there.
Competitive rates, world-class service trusted by 500+ businesses
48-hr Miraculous-Match
Guarantee
$45-$80/hour vs.
$60-$95+/hour industry avg.
1000+ on-demand developers
with startup hustle
How can Lemon charge nearly 50% less
With Lemon, your fees are almost entirely bestowed on your developer, with just a small portion cast aside for startup costs.
When you hire from a mega-corp, you’re likely funding much more than developer rates
salaries for 500-person teams aren’t conjured up from thin air. budgets for big marketing spends aren’t, either. With a startup like lemon, chances your fees are fueling the daily ops of a massive global hiring machine are zero.
lemon’s low overhead means this:
we can charge less while still giving you access to top senior talent. plus, our engineers are from eastern europe, which has a lower cost of living (and lower hourly rates ) than the united states.
Clean communication, focused
A perfectly crafted price : quality ratio
Why you’ll never have incompetent devs sabotaging your product release with Lemon
Your developers from Lemon are rigorously tested and pre-vetted for technical, social and communication skills
The startup hustle isn’t ideal for every engineer. That’s why we vet our developers — ruthlessly and thoroughly — to save you time and stress in the long run.
We call the Lemon vetting process the 4 levels of judgment. Fewer than 400 developers have ever made it through the initiation.
The result? A utopia of outstaffed software engineers.

The Resumé Review
We instantly cut devs that fail an ESL test, offer an inglorious portfolio and lack outstaffing experience
Reputation Sanction
Reference check! Remaining developers are vetted to ensure saintly standing with their current employer
Personal Prostration
Remaining developers are interviewed and put through a rigorous skills test
The Dev’s Advocate
The final reckoning! We accept those passionately committed to the startup hustle, with the work ethic of a deity
90% of new clients are happy with their very first candidate match
The Startup Savior Double Guarantee:
To keep your budget on track, Lemon solemnly swears that...
We’ll match you with another developer at no additional cost if your Miraculous Match developer from Lemon doesn’t meet your expectations.
And, you always have the power to choose. That’s the ‘Startup Savior’ promise
If after interviewing your match, you decide to go with one of our competitors after all, we’ll give you $100 to use there.
Yes, we will give you $100. Because we know: once you have a Lemon dev on your project, you’ll never want anyone else. By then, you’ll know: $100 is worth WAY more at Lemon than anywhere else.
These elite developers could be devoted to your project — in hours

Georgiy Kh
// Senior Software Engineer
7 years experience
The master of enterprise and high-performance web technology. Wickedly skilled at defining, designing and implementing a highly secure, continuous-deployment pipeline to update applications in cloud environments.
- Java
- Spring
- Angular
- PCF
- SQL
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- Bash\sh scripting - JUnit
- Oracle
- FlyWay
- Maven
- JavaScript
- Jira
- Mercurial
- Confluence
- Git
- Apache
- SVN
- ReactJS
- C++
In these devs we trust
Awesome service, very user friendly and the developers are great at what they do. Makes it very easy to outsource the work knowing that it will be done quickly and done right.
// Dror
Lightning quick and keen to serve
These developers rly know their skill! As the designer of sites, they are always very patient and willing to work to make sure I'm happy and I get what I want. I also appreciate how quick they are and responsive!
// Yocheved

Ella P
// Senior Web Developer
15 years experience
Drupal programming expert. Stoked to slay your installation, module customization, theming and WebForms needs.
- WordPress
- Hubspot
- MySQL
- Ajax
- Drupal
- JavaScript
- Joomla
- JQuery
- Magento
- HTML/CSS
- Zend Framework

Pavlo P
// Back-end Developer
7+ years experience
Seriously accomplished desktop and web-based application developer with a thick manuscript of skills. Speaks in several technical tongues.
- .NET
- C#
- C++
- PHP
- SQL
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Docker
- Git
- MVC
- Doctrine
- Symfony
- PHPUnit
- Kubernetes
- ElasticSearch
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- Oracle
Triple-threat teammates
Super responsive, super affordable and a super talented team. It can be tricky working with web developers as they're often so busy, but having access to a quality team I can trust has given me the opportunity to get things done quickly so my own online projects and my clients' businesses can flourish.
// Elissa J.
Augment the power of your programming team
An excellent way to augment the power of your programming team. It's great knowing that I have them in my back pocket for any difficult tasks we either can't handle or need the extra hands for.
// Mike

Lyubomyr
// Senior Ruby Developer
10 years experience
Has an awe-inspiring amount of experience in IT, Ruby on Rails, project management and QA. Known in some circles as ‘the mystique’ for being extraordinarily versatile.
- Ruby on Rails
- Sinatra
- Capistano
- Minitest
- Capybara
- Cucumber
- Selenium
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- JavaScript
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- SQLite
- API
- Stripe
- Git
- Subversion
- SASS
- LESS
- Elasticsearch
- Materialize
- IonicFramework
- ReactNative
For startups who want skilled, senior and meticulously selected devs
We have 1000+ experienced engineers to choose from. That’s sizable enough to guarantee you’ll get the ideal dev to build your product on time and on spec. (Without worrying about hordes of unreliable and irresponsible developers hiding among the crowd.)
Available full-time or part-time:
- Full-Stack Developer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Front-End Developer
- DevOps Engineer
- Back-End Developer
- Python Developer
- JavaScript Developer
- Drupal Developer
- HubSpot Developer
- RoR Engineer
- Flutter Developer
- Java Developer
- Blockchain Developer
- IOS Developer
- Data Scientist
- Full-Stack Developer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Front-End Developer
- DevOps Engineer
- Back-End Developer
- Python Developer
- JavaScript Developer
- Drupal Developer
- HubSpot Developer
- RoR Engineer
- Flutter Developer
- Java Developer
- Blockchain Developer
- IOS Developer
- Data Scientist
- Full-Stack Developer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Front-End Developer
- DevOps Engineer
- Back-End Developer
- Python Developer
- JavaScript Developer
- Drupal Developer
- HubSpot Developer
- RoR Engineer
- Flutter Developer
- Java Developer
- Blockchain Developer
- IOS Developer
- Data Scientist
Fast and fierce
Devs worthy of worship
The miraculously quick and easy way to start your project with Lemon
And don’t forget you get a $100 ‘startup savior’ credit if you’re not happy with your match after the interview