WebDevelopment
Dedicated developers recruited around your stack, workflow and actual backlog.
const team = {
stack: aligned,
workflow: embedded,
capacity: dedicated
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Development capacity that sits inside your workflow
Hiring a developer and buying a website are not the same thing. Shaz & Co. is for businesses that need ongoing technical capacity and want the developer working with their own team, systems, priorities and release process.
That can mean maintaining client websites for an agency, supporting an internal product, clearing a recurring development backlog or adding a specialist to an existing engineering team.
Roles we can recruit for
WordPress developers
Front-end developers
Back-end developers
Full-stack developers
Shopify developers
Web designer-developers
Other web roles based on your stack and requirement
Start with the stack, then describe the work
A list of technologies is useful, but it is not enough. Two developers can both list JavaScript, PHP or WordPress and have very different levels of independence. Tell us what the person will build, maintain or fix. Tell us whether they are joining an established codebase, handling client tickets, building landing pages or owning features from brief to deployment.
What we want to know before sourcing
Core languages, frameworks and CMS platforms
What is mandatory on day one and what can be learned
Typical work they will receive
Whether the role is maintenance, new development or both
Version control and deployment workflow
Who reviews code and approves releases
Expected overlap with your team
Client-facing requirements, if any
Seniority and level of independent decision-making
How technical screening should work
A portfolio is useful evidence, but it should not be the only evidence. We can structure screening around the role, including technical interviews, code or project walkthroughs and practical exercises where they make sense. For senior positions, the conversation should cover tradeoffs, debugging, maintainability and how the candidate approaches unfamiliar systems, not just syntax.
Security and access should be designed before day one
Developers often need access to repositories, hosting, staging environments, analytics and client systems. Decide what the role genuinely needs. Use individual accounts, least-privilege access and your normal code review and deployment controls. Avoid shared credentials simply because the person is remote.
Dedicated does not mean unmanaged
Your developer still needs priorities, acceptance criteria, feedback and someone who can answer product or technical questions. Offshore hiring removes geographic limits. It does not remove the need for good engineering management. The clearer your backlog and ownership model are, the faster a new developer can become useful.
Acceptance criteria
Defined ownership
Review & iterate
