Hire Node.js developers who improve the codebase they join
Backend engineers comfortable with queues, traces and the parts of the event loop that only matter at 3am during a traffic spike.
- Rolling monthly
- 4h guaranteed overlap
- Replacement guarantee
What they bring on day one
- Fastify & NestJS
- Postgres & Redis
- BullMQ workers
- OpenTelemetry
- API security
- Docker & CI
Good fit when you are…
- Adding a service layer to a monolith
- Integration-heavy programmes
- On-call reinforcement
Commercials
from $48/hr
All-in. Equipment, oversight and holiday cover included.
- Minimum term
- One month, rolling
- Notice period
- Two weeks, either way
- Typical start
- Within two weeks
- Timezone overlap
- Four hours guaranteed
- Replacement
- At our cost, first fortnight
Three ways to bring them in
Same engineers, different commercial shape depending on how much ownership you want to keep.
Embedded engineer
One or more of our people join your standups, your repo and your on-call rotation. You manage the work; we handle contracts, cover and continuity.
- Monthly rolling contract
- Two-week notice either way
- Direct Slack access
- Replacement guaranteed within five days
Pod
A self-contained team — lead engineer, two developers, part-time designer — that owns a stream of work end to end and reports on outcomes.
- Fixed monthly rate
- Own delivery lead
- Quarterly roadmap reviews
- Scales up or down each quarter
Fractional lead
A senior architect for one or two days a week: reviews, technical decisions, hiring support and the arguments nobody internally can win alone.
- 1–2 days a week
- Architecture ownership
- Code review at depth
- Interview panel support
Tell us what the Node.js gap looks like
Stack, team size, start date and what the person would own. We reply with names and availability, not a brochure.
Hiring Node.js engineers: the details
Every engineer we place has at least five years of production experience and has led a delivery. Clownmind runs no junior bench — if we do not have the right person available, we say so rather than substituting somebody cheaper.
Day one is repository access, environment setup and a walkthrough with whoever owns the codebase. We expect a meaningful pull request inside the first week, and we will tell you if the environment is not in a state that allows it.
from $48/hr, and that is the full cost. It covers the engineer, their equipment, their delivery lead's oversight and their cover during leave. No recruitment fee and no margin on expenses.
Yes. We guarantee at least four hours of overlap with your working day from any of our three studios (Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai), and full alignment is possible depending on where you are.
Tell us within the first fortnight and we replace the engineer at our cost, or you end the arrangement paying only for days worked. One month rolling, two weeks' notice, no lock-in.
Want an opinion on your architecture before you commit budget?
Thirty minutes with a principal engineer. No deck, no discovery call disguised as a sales call.