The experience with Lemon.io has been fantastic. The interview process has been good, the caliber of people – excellent and integration has been very smooth.
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The startup with a heavenly vision
A platform connecting customers with satellite providers, SkyFi makes satellite photography (and its arcane knowledge) accessible to stargazers everywhere.
With a vision that big, they’re shaping the future of satellite imagery:
We are trying to make satellite imagery as accessible and inexpensive as possible.
The need for extra hands
During development, the SkyFi team found themselves overloaded with engineer-hiring chaos. They needed to scale fast, but they didn’t have enough devs, and time to find the exalted engineers they needed.
As they searched for help, they became trapped in a hiring labyrinth, endlessly searching through resumes and interviewing engineers that were merely meh. Without divine aid, their deadlines seemed impossible.
That’s when SkyFi found the light of Lemon.io.
We had decided that we needed to in-house the building of our front-end as opposed to outsourcing. And we needed to do that quickly.
The results
Less than 24 hours later, Lemon.io presented a pool of divine developers, giving SkyFi time to run their own assessments and pick their perfect match.
Empowered by a dedicated dev, SkyFi was able to push on without getting mired in long hiring process.
The Lemon.io devs have remarkably enhanced SkyFi’s performance, resulting in substantial cost savings and huge leaps in quality.
Impressed by the Lemon.io developerhood, SkyFi then hired four more devotees from Lemon.io, including a Python, Sr React Native, two RN developers, and a DevOps engineer.
Later on SkyFi team “buy out” all the Lemon.io devotees that worked with them, as they were absolutely brilliant fit for their team.
We have four people who already started working with us officially, and they’ve all been fantastic, and we have a couple more starting soon. We brought them on, and instantly they were part of the team.
Divine devs that get things done
Alain is a backend-leaning Python and Node.js engineer who has led AWS microservice platforms, from a streaming product with payments, DRM, and CI/CD to safety-critical aviation tooling in Python and C++. He also built ML pipelines for package risk scoring and a real-time tracking platform using Kafka, radar, and computer vision.
Bruno is a React and Next.js engineer who also ships React Native apps, most recently building crypto purchase and wallet flows across mobile and web. He has also built bilingual guided-commerce pages on Contentful and real-time products like video streaming and online scheduling.
Jorge is a full-stack engineer working across React, Node.js, and Go, with recent work on large microservices and micro-frontend systems. He cut a reporting job from 20 hours and 50GB+ RAM to 1 hour under 4GB, and on a US parks booking platform reduced Go service duplication by 30% and raised test coverage to 100% across four frontends.
Alex is a Python and React full-stack engineer who leads a Django-based data annotation platform used by 100,000+ experts to produce training data for advanced AI models. He cut p95 API times by 50% and built a runtime-configurable annotation UI plus embedding-based search for matching experts to tasks.
Andy is a full-stack Node.js and React engineer who led the rebuild of a video doorbell platform across backend, firmware, and mobile, scaling it to 1M+ devices while cutting AWS costs by 80%. He also built a support copilot that cut ticket resolution from days to minutes and shipped ONNX models on edge devices.
Ridwan is a backend-leaning full-stack engineer working in Python, Django, React, Node.js, and AWS. As one of the first engineers on a real estate investment platform, he built spreadsheet-like finance workflows and cash-flow calculation systems, and at a utilities platform he cut key API response times by 30-80% through database indexing.
Peter is a Node.js and TypeScript lead who builds trading and crypto infrastructure, from CEX/DEX aggregators to microservices that processed millions of market events in seconds. As CTO and tech lead, he architected high-frequency platforms and handled both EVM and Solana integrations.
Abdeljalil is a Node.js and React tech lead who builds distributed automation systems. He led a platform that orchestrates tools across multiple servers with RabbitMQ and MongoDB, and also designed a Go service for high-concurrency DNS TXT scanning that processes millions of records without overloading resolvers or workers.
Ivan is a founder-engineer working across Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, Go and Postgres, lately building mobile products end to end. He shipped a sailing marketplace to 15,000+ users with berth booking logic enforced in PostgreSQL, then built a native marine navigation app solo in six weeks on a self-hosted vector-tile stack.
Why choose us
We're looking for the right developers, that perfectly suit your team
A four-step vetting process
Our proprietary process includes professional and personal tests, live interviews, and multiple background checks.
Price-quality match
The majority of developers are from Eastern Europe, where startups can stretch their budget to do more with less.
Miraculous 48-hour matching
Two days (or less) to find you a perfect developer for your startup's needs.
98% satisfaction rate
That's the percentage of clients who hired the very first dev they were offered from the platform.
Zero-risk dev replacement
You don't wait for direction. You jump in headfirst, racking up quick wins, calling out improvements, and pushing for architectural decisions that set clients up for scale.
Full-time contributors
You're looking for work you can sink your teeth into, and can commit 20 hours or more a week to see it through.
Case studies More case studies
Telecommunications
We needed extra developers to clean off all these bugs so the company could skyrocket.
Event planning
Lemon saved me time by making sure that before I even took that first phone call, I had a list of candidates that were truly good potential matches.
Healthcare
They’re fantastic engineers who don’t sit around twiddling their thumbs. They make stuff happen. They put the effort in. It’s what’s made Lemon.io such a critical partner for us.
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Top-notch developers within 48 hours, hand-picked for your team.
