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Hire Node.js developers

Engineers who write the API layer, the background jobs and the integrations your product runs on. They join your standups, your repo and your review process, and work to a scope agreed before anyone starts.

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What they do

Hire Node.js developers, end to end.

APIs and backend services

REST or GraphQL services in Node, with request validation, sensible error handling and versioning that does not break the clients you already have in production.

Third-party integrations

Payment providers, CRMs, ERPs, shipping and messaging APIs. Written with retries, idempotency keys and a clear record of what was sent and what came back.

Background jobs and queues

Work that should not sit in a web request: imports, exports, scheduled syncs, webhook processing. Queued, retried on failure, and observable when a job stalls.

Database and data layer

Schema design, migrations that run safely against live data, and query work when a page has started taking seconds instead of milliseconds.

Legacy Node modernisation

Older Express or Sails codebases moved onto supported Node versions, with dependencies updated and the risky parts covered by tests before anything changes.

AI features in your backend

Model calls, retrieval and agent behaviour built into your Node services, with guardrails, logging of every call and a way to switch a feature off.

How it runs

Plan. Build. Run.

01

A 30 minute call

You describe the codebase, the team and what is blocked. We say whether Node developers are the right answer, and whether we are the right people. No deck, no discovery fee.

02

Scope, timeline and price

We write down the work, how long it takes and what it costs, before anyone starts. If we cannot size part of it yet, we say so and put a check-in at that point rather than a guess.

03

Build inside your process

Our engineers work in your repo, your branch strategy and your review process. Pull requests are small enough to read. You see progress weekly, not at the end.

04

Handover, or we keep running it

Everything ships with documentation and access in your name. From there you either take it in-house or move onto our run retainer and we keep it healthy.

Why infoloop

We do not hand over and leave.

  • We build and we runMost teams hand over and leave. We offer a retainer after launch, so the people who wrote your Node services are the same ones fixing them at eleven on a Tuesday night.
  • Fixed scope before we startYou get the work, the timeline and the price in writing before the first commit. If scope changes, we re-price that change openly rather than letting hours quietly accumulate.
  • Production is the standardWe build for the day after launch: logging, error tracking, health checks and a rollback path. Code that only works on a laptop is not finished code.
  • You own everythingRepositories, cloud accounts, secrets and pipelines sit in your name from day one. Nothing is hosted on our accounts, so leaving us is a decision, not an extraction.
  • Small teams, direct contactYou talk to the engineers writing the code. There is no account manager relaying questions, and no rotating bench of names you have never spoken to.

What you get

Every engagement includes these, in writing, before work starts.

  • Node.js engineers working in your repo, your board and your standups
  • API endpoints and services with tests covering the paths that matter
  • Database migrations written to run against live data without downtime
  • Logging, error tracking and health checks wired up before launch
  • A written handover: architecture, environment variables, deploy and rollback steps
  • A named contact for the work, reachable directly rather than through a queue

Who this is for

Three situations where this is the right call.

Your backlog is longer than your team

You have a working product and a roadmap you cannot staff. Hiring takes months you do not have. You need engineers who can read an existing codebase and start closing tickets inside a couple of weeks.

One person holds the whole backend

A single developer knows how the Node services fit together, and everything queues behind them. You want a second and third pair of hands, and the knowledge written down while you are at it.

The API is the bottleneck

The front end is fine. The backend is slow, the integrations fail quietly and nobody has time to look. You want people who can go in, find what is actually wrong, and fix it properly.

Questions

What buyers ask us first.

How much does it cost to hire Node.js developers through infoloop?
We price the work, not the hours. After a 30 minute call we write down the scope, the timeline and a fixed price, and you approve that before anything starts. Cost depends on how many engineers you need, for how long, and how much of the existing codebase we have to learn first. Two common shapes: a fixed-price project with a defined end, or a monthly rate for engineers embedded in your team for a set number of months. If scope changes mid-build we re-price that change in writing rather than absorbing it silently. There is no charge for the initial call or for producing the scope.
Can your developers work inside our existing codebase and team?
Yes, that is the usual arrangement. Our engineers work in your repository, follow your branch and review conventions, and join whatever ceremonies you already run. We do not fork your project or build in isolation and drop a zip file on you at the end. The first week is normally spent reading the code, mapping how services talk to each other, and getting a local environment running, and we tell you what we found before writing anything substantial. If your conventions are undocumented, we write them down as we learn them and leave that behind.
What happens after the code goes live?
You choose. Everything ships with documentation, deploy and rollback steps, and all accounts already in your name, so an in-house team can take over cleanly. Or you move onto our run retainer, which covers monitoring, fixes with agreed response targets, security and dependency updates, small improvements, and a monthly report showing what changed and what we are watching. Node applications drift: dependencies go end-of-life, third-party APIs change, traffic patterns shift. The retainer exists because the people who wrote the code are the fastest people to fix it.
Which parts of the Node ecosystem do you work with?
Express, Fastify and NestJS on the framework side, with TypeScript as the default unless your codebase says otherwise. Postgres and MySQL for relational data, MongoDB and Redis where they fit, and queue systems such as BullMQ or SQS for background work. REST and GraphQL APIs, WebSockets for real-time features, and the usual deployment targets: containers, serverless functions or a managed platform. If you are already on something we have not named, tell us on the call and we will say honestly whether we can pick it up quickly or whether you want someone else.
How quickly can an engineer start, and can we change the number of people?
Start dates depend on current commitments, and we tell you a real date on the call rather than an optimistic one. Ramp-up is usually one to two weeks before meaningful pull requests, faster if your environment setup is documented and slower on a large undocumented codebase. Team size can change between phases: we agree the shape at each scope point, so you can add a second engineer when a milestone needs parallel work, or drop back to one for maintenance. We do not lock you into a headcount for the whole engagement.
Who owns the code, and what if we want to stop?
You own all of it. The repository, the cloud accounts, the domain, the secrets and the CI pipelines sit under your organisation from the first day, not ours. We work inside your accounts rather than hosting anything on ours, so there is nothing to migrate or hand back if you stop. Retainers run month to month with notice; project work stops at the end of an agreed phase. If you leave, you leave with a working system, current documentation and no dependency on us to deploy it. We would rather you stay because the work is good.

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Thirty minutes on a call. Describe the codebase and what is blocked, and we will tell you whether Node developers are the right answer. If they are, you get a scope, a timeline and a price in writing.

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