Ship faster.
Spend less runway.
Hire pre-vetted senior engineers from Lagos in days — at a flat monthly rate your runway will love. No agencies, no deposits, no six-month searches.
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Avg. savings vs SF/NYC hires
The math founders skip
Every month you wait costs you ~$18,000.
You don't feel a slow hire. It never shows up as a line item. But a mid-level SF/NYC engineer costs $18K–$24K/month fully loaded — and the average startup search takes 3–6 months. That's the launch window that closes quietly.
Hiring locally / via agency
$18K–24K/mo
- ✕3–6 months of searching before anyone starts
- ✕Agency coordination billed at 2–3× the engineer's rate
- ✕Placement fees, deposits, hourly premiums stacked on top
- ✕Every month of delay = a feature your competitor ships first
With Nigeria Developers
$3K–6.5K/mo
- ✓Shortlist in 48 hours, engineers start within days
- ✓Flat monthly rate — salary, equipment, payroll, compliance included
- ✓The ~$15K/mo difference funds two more engineers
- ✓Same seniority, same stack, same output — 75% less
Why Nigeria
Africa's largest tech ecosystem
Nigeria produces 100,000+ STEM graduates annually, and Lagos is where the continent's fastest-growing startups are building. The engineers here aren't just cost-effective — they're world-class, shipping products used by millions.
4–6 hours overlap with US East, full overlap with Europe
Official business language — no communication barrier
Largest developer population in Africa
100K+
STEM graduates per year
850+
Tech startups in Lagos alone
3rd
Largest startup ecosystem in Africa
2M+
Software developers in country
What we do
From MVP to Series B.
Whatever your stage needs next — we have the engineer who's done it three times already.
Full-Stack Engineering
React, Node, Python, Go. Senior engineers who take a ticket and hand back a shipped feature — prototype to production.
Mobile Development
React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin. Your MVP on iOS and Android before your competitors finish their discovery calls.
DevOps & Cloud
AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes. Your first infra hire, without the first infra-hire salary.
AI & Data Engineering
LLM features, ML pipelines, analytics. The AI roadmap your investors keep asking about — actually shipped.
UI/UX Design
Figma, prototyping, design systems. Interfaces your first thousand users don't complain about.
QA & Testing
Manual, automated, performance. Catches the bugs that torch a launch week — before launch week.
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Monthly Savings
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Annual Savings
$518,400
≈ 12 additional engineers funded for a full year — paid for entirely by your savings.
SF/NYC rates are fully loaded costs (salary, taxes, benefits, equipment) for mid-level engineers. Nigerian rates are all-inclusive monthly rates. Actual figures vary by experience and stack. All figures in USD.
How it works
Interview this week. Shipping next week.
Tell us what you need
Role, stack, stage, timeline. A 15-minute call — we reply within hours, not weeks.
Meet your shortlist
Pre-vetted candidates in 48 hours. Interview this week. If nobody fits, we send more — free.
Ship, risk-free
2-week paid trial, then month-to-month. If the fit isn't right, we replace at no cost — your ship date doesn't slip.
What they say
Results, not promises.
“We spent four months trying to hire locally. Nigeria Developers sent a shortlist in 48 hours and our first engineer was shipping to production in week two. We're a two-month-old company with a five-person engineering team.”
Dana Whitfield
Co-founder, seed-stage logistics startup
“Every agency quoted us a discovery phase before anyone wrote code. Here, the engineer was pushing to our repo on day 9. The flat monthly rate meant our board actually understood the bill.”
Tomás Rivera
CTO, Series A fintech
“I was worried about the time zone. Then our Lagos engineer was reviewing my PRs before my US standup even started. GMT+1 quietly became our advantage — work done while we sleep.”
Priya Nair
Founder, pre-seed SaaS
No excuses
If we're wrong, it costs you nothing.
We take the risk so you don't have to. Every guarantee below is in the agreement, not the fine print.
2-week paid trial
Work with the engineer on your real project before you commit. Not a fit? We replace them at no cost.
Ongoing free replacement
If anyone leaves or underperforms — at any point — we replace them. No fees, no re-search, no downtime.
Month-to-month
Scale up with 2 weeks' notice, down with 30 days'. No contracts, no minimums, no deposits.
Your IP, fully yours
NDAs before access. Full IP assignment. Code lives in your repos — we never fork or mirror.
Straight answers
The questions founders actually ask.
What if the engineer isn't good enough?
That's exactly what the vetting and the trial are for. Only 4% of applicants make it through our 6-stage process — then you get a 2-week paid trial on your actual project before you commit. If anyone turns out not to be a fit, we replace them at no cost, and we've done this often enough that 97% of placements stick.
Will the timezone be a problem?
Nigeria runs on GMT+1: 4–6 hours of live overlap with US East Coast, and full working-day overlap with Europe. In practice, most of our startup clients get PRs reviewed overnight — work done while they sleep, answers waiting at their morning standup.
How's the communication and English?
English is Nigeria's official language and the language of its entire tech industry — no interpreters, no translated standups. Our vetting tests written and spoken communication explicitly, because for a startup team that matters as much as code.
Do I really own the code and IP?
Yes — no exceptions. NDAs are signed before anyone sees your repo, every engagement includes full IP assignment under work-for-hire terms, and all code stays in your repositories. We never fork or mirror your code.
We're pre-revenue. Can we start small?
Yes — no minimum team size. Start with one part-time engineer from $1,800/month, full-time from $3,000/month, month-to-month. Scale up with 2 weeks' notice, scale down with 30 days'.
What do other options actually cost me?
Agencies bill hourly with coordination overhead that lands at 2–3× the engineer's real rate. Marketplaces add deposits, placement fees, and hourly premiums — and still hand you the vetting. Our flat monthly rate covers salary, benefits, equipment, payroll, and compliance, with no fees on top.
While you read this
Your competitor is hiring right now.
Tell us what you're building. We'll send a shortlist of pre-vetted engineers within 48 hours — no commitment, no upfront cost, nothing to lose but the search time you were about to burn.
hello@nigeriadevelopers.com