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Javier P.

Backend Developer

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Specializes in security best practices and data protection across web applications.
PHP, Laravel, MySQL, HTML, CSS
React
$65-80/h
Xavier C.

DevOps Engineer

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Focuses on backend development and database management for enterprise solutions.
C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Entity Framework
React
$40-55/h
Andrei I.

Fullstack Developer

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Optimizes performance and scalability of applications through container orchestration.
Go, Microservices, REST API, Kubernetes
React
$30-45/h
Marco R.

Data Engineer

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Specializes in security best practices and data protection across web applications.
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices
React
$60-75/h
Stefano B.

Data Engineer

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Specializes in security best practices and data protection across web applications.
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices
React
$55-70/h
Igor V.

Architect

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Focuses on backend development and database management for enterprise solutions.
Python, Django, Flask, AWS, Docker
React
$70-85/h
Victoria W.

Fullstack Developer

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Optimizes performance and scalability of applications through container orchestration.
Go, Microservices, REST API, Kubernetes
React
$60-75/h
Isabelle D.

Fullstack Developer

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Optimizes performance and scalability of applications through container orchestration.
Go, Microservices, REST API, Kubernetes
React
$60-75/h
Amara B.

Backend Developer

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Specializes in security best practices and data protection across web applications.
PHP, Laravel, MySQL, HTML, CSS
React
$30-45/h
Madison C.

Engineer

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Designs fullstack applications, managing frontend and backend components.
Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL
React
$60-75/h
Rachel S.

Data Engineer

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Specializes in security best practices and data protection across web applications.
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices
React
$60-75/h
Sophia M.

Engineer

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Designs fullstack applications, managing frontend and backend components.
Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL
React
$30-45/h

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Our network of Mobile developers provides comprehensive development services, covering the entire app development lifecycle to optimize costs, boost profitability, and enhance efficiency.

Mobile App Development

Mobile app development encompasses creating applications for both iOS and Android platforms. Our expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and Flutter ensures we deliver high-quality, user-centric mobile apps that meet your business objectives.

Mobile UI/UX Design

Mobile UI/UX design focuses on creating intuitive and engaging interfaces for mobile applications. We use design tools like Sketch and Figma to craft seamless user experiences across both iOS and Android platforms.

Mobile App Testing

Mobile app testing ensures the quality and performance of your mobile applications. We use manual and automated testing techniques to identify and fix issues, ensuring your app provides a seamless user experience on all devices.

Mobile Security Solutions

Mobile security solutions protect your mobile applications and data. We provide comprehensive security services, including encryption, threat detection, and secure coding practices, ensuring your mobile apps are safe from vulnerabilities and attacks.

Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Cross-platform mobile development creates applications that run on multiple platforms from a single codebase. We use technologies like Flutter, React Native, and Xamarin to build high-performance apps for both iOS and Android.

Mobile App Maintenance

Mobile app maintenance ensures your applications remain operational and up-to-date. We provide ongoing maintenance, bug fixes, and updates to ensure your app continues to meet user expectations and functions smoothly.

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Hundreds of the world's leading enterprises and startups partner with Pangea.ai agencies to do more with less.

Building a car booking feature with Skyscanner

TravelTech, UI/UX, Java, Swift
React
Building a car booking feature with  Skyscanner

Promising better scooter mobility for Bolt's logistics team

Transportation & Smart Mobility, Redux
React
Promising better scooter mobility for Bolt's logistics team

Delivering UX/UI delight to HelloFresh, America's #1 meal kit

FoodTech, Mobile Apps, D2C
React
Delivering UX/UI delight to HelloFresh, America's #1 meal kit

Building the first-ever mobile app experience for Wise

Fintech, AWS, Swift, Kotlin
React
Building the first-ever mobile app experience for Wise

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August 14, 2024
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A Comprehensive Guide to Hiring Mobile App Engineering Teams

Prags Mugunthan
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10 years of experience

Prags Mugunthan is the Co-founder and CEO at Pangea.ai, where he spearheads the evolution of the workplace through pioneering remote and distributed work solutions. Under her leadership, Pangea.ai is committed to creating the leading platform for businesses to hire the top percentile of remote design and engineering talent. Prags' vision for a future where work is remote for talent and distributed for organizations drives the company's strategy, expanding access to exceptional global talent while fostering a more flexible and inclusive work culture.

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Prags Mugunthan is the Co-founder and CEO at Pangea.ai, where he spearheads the evolution of the workplace through pioneering remote and distributed work solutions. Under her leadership, Pangea.ai is committed to creating the leading platform for businesses to hire the top percentile of remote design and engineering talent. Prags' vision for a future where work is remote for talent and distributed for organizations drives the company's strategy, expanding access to exceptional global talent while fostering a more flexible and inclusive work culture.

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Mobile application development is complex and can be overwhelming. While building an app is easy, building one that is maintainable, performant, well-engineered, extensible, and scalable is a challenging engineering task. The knowledge of what’s at stake adds pressure and intensity to that challenge. An app can be the single most critical component to the success of a product, project, and company. The mobile app is very often the first and only point of interaction a customer has with a service so getting the app right is often mission-critical.

Steps to success

The first step towards success is choosing the right technology and tools to bring your mobile app to life. Having the right tools on hand can save you thousands, reduce your time to market, boost the performance of your app, and increase its reach across multiple platforms. Starting off on the right foot goes a long way to helping the remaining pieces fall into place.

Once you have the technologies in place and the tools available to support them, finding a team of developers who will bring your app idea to life is the next major hurdle to overcome. The right team, whether freelance experts or in-house developers, will find the solution which can launch your app into the marketplace and secure its place as a user favourite. Remember that the Pangea universe can help you to find the perfect remote development team to fit your company and project. Just tell us what you need. We can do the work for you and connect you with up to 5 companies within 72h that match your need- all for free.

The most underappreciated fact of mobile app development is that a genius idea is only the beginning. Hard work begins at finding the technical solutions, implementations, and teams that bring great ideas to life.

Here, we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to implementing your ideas into reality, starting with finding the frameworks which will build your platform, through to hiring and managing the mobile app developers which will engineer your success.

Part 1: Deciding on Tech and Tools

Mobile apps are critical to business success today precisely because they have become such a vital part of users’ lives. Today, we use apps for banking, shopping, reading, parking, watching content and communication on a near hourly basis. The first thing users need to know about a new product or service is the availability and quality of its app.

A good mobile app can drive services to stratospheric success. A bad one will lead to dismissal and a quick uninstall.

The first step to building an app that keeps users on-side is finding the right platform for your success.

Choosing between a web app, hybrid application, cross-platform framework, or native application is the first major engineering decision your team has to make. Getting it right entails careful consideration and detailed analysis.

Your decision should be rooted first in your app’s priorities. The choice between platform availability, rapid time-to-market, app performance, user experience, and the cost is not an easy one to make. Once you have these worked out, however, the pieces of the technology puzzle can begin to fall into place.

Read our article on the pros and cons of mobile app development to decide how these will factor into your mobile application.

A Framework for Success

Choosing the right technology stack feels like the most daunting first step in app development. It feels as if the wrong move is dangerously easy to make and destined to mire your app in tech failures and disaster for years to come.

However, knowing your app, understanding its target audience, and knowing how and where it’s going to operate will make the choice for you. Marrying your app’s specification up to today’s leading mobile app frameworks will make choosing the right solution clear and obvious from the start.

One of the leading frameworks today is Facebook’s React framework. Last year, React was one of the most popular frameworks used amongst professional developers and teams.

Amongst ReactJS development teams, this particular framework has a reputation as being at the cutting edge of interactive, rich, and robust user interfaces. Similarly, React’s mobile platform, React Native, is one of the industry-leading technologies in cross-platform mobile app development.

React native imports some of the performance and development advantages of React into mobile application engineering. Our guide to the pros and cons of React.js development investigates the detail of what makes React such a powerful platform for development and the advantages and drawbacks you should consider before investing your project in the framework.

Take a look at The Ultimate Guide to Mobile App Frameworks in 2021 to find out more about the latest and greatest frameworks out there that can take your app to success.

Keep an Eye on the Future

Precisely what it is that makes a mobile app succeed is constantly shifting and changing. So many apps and games have surprised us by rocketing to overnight success while great apps and solutions have failed to capture user’s imaginations at times. The one thing that underpins the success of all mobile apps is meeting or exceeding user expectations from the very start.

To do that, you must keep on top of the technology trends and user habits associated with modern mobile apps.

With technology improving at a rate that feels almost exponential, users expect more and more from their apps every day. As a result, the ecosystem is becoming ever more competitive and increasingly challenging to enter. Keeping on top of the direction of new technologies and the speed with which they arrive is critical forward planning for future app success.

Our article on the future of mobile app engineering is packed full of the key trends and shifts in technology that will underpin mobile app engineering for many years to come.

Part 2: How to hire mobile app developers

One of the things that make mobile application development so difficult is the specialist and unique technical skills required. The tough constraints put on companies in time, costs, and available engineers are precisely the things needed most to engineer a successful app.

The challenge is to bring an application up to its minimum viable product with a scalable and maintainable codebase that warrants continued investment. To do that, you need talented and dedicated engineers with experience and expertise in the field.

The choice is between hiring an in-house team or undertaking the services of a remote mobile app team. Both will get you from initial idea to product release and deployment to the store - and both have their own pros and cons.

The choice you make will have an impact on the future scalability, initial budget, and level of risk tolerated in the project. Each one has an effect on specialist skills, project management, documentation, and testing available at different stages of production.

Our article on deciding between freelancers or a remote mobile app team can help to demystify some of the facts and myths surrounding both options.

Which hiring route you take will determine the next steps in your mobile application development. If that involves an in-house team, the next logical step is hiring mobile app developers.

In hiring, you’re going to want to find the team with the perfect combination of interpersonal and technical skills to accelerate progress and keep things running smoothly. While finding this ideal combination might feel like sheer luck and chance, the reality is that the odds are better than you think by simply following the best practices and looking in the right places.

Simply posting an accurate, engaging, and attractive job description, one which highlights the challenges and benefits unique to you, is enough to start getting high-quality mobile app developers to come to find you. Setting expectations, figuring out who you want, and posting an ad to find them will set the ball rolling on building your mobile app team from the ground up.

Here, we’ve done the legwork to help out. Our article on hiring mobile app developers has everything you need to get started, including a job description template for you to fill out and attract high-quality talent to apply. If you need help selecting the right company, tell us what you need. We can do the work for you and connect you with up to 5 companies within 72h that match your need- all for free.

How to Interview Mobile App Developers

The final step in the hiring process is, without a doubt, the most stressful. Yes, we’re talking about the interview. Few appreciate just how stressful the job interview is for the interviewer as much as it is for the candidate.

The purpose of an interview - to get an accurate assessment of a candidate’s abilities and personality in just an hour or two - seems almost impossible. It’s akin to being asked to make a career or company-altering decision based only on a first impression.

A successful interview, one that's the choice for the firm, requires a structured approach to get the best out of every candidate. Your goal, to assess each applicant fairly and accurately, can be achieved with a little forethought and planning.

Take a look at our article on what to look for when hiring a mobile app developer for tips on ways to assess candidates to fully understand their skills and give them the best possible impression of your company. The article also includes some tricky technical questions to get you started.

Recruiting JavaScript Developers into Your Team

With the popularity and prevalence of JavaScript tools and frameworks continuing to increase, finding class-leading JavaScript developers can be an exceptionally challenging task.

You want to be certain that you are examining the right skills under the right conditions to find a developer with the knowledge and abilities to suit your project. After all, finding a candidate to develop your app is one of the most critical early engineering decisions you’re going to have to make.

In the interview, your candidate should write JavaScript code, undertake a short technical test, and discuss their knowledge and experience all in 90 minutes or less. A tall order, but one that is very possible too. In that time you should be able to gain a thorough understanding of a candidate’s skills and how they fit into your team.

Take a look at our article on how to interview a JavaScript developer for more tips on finding the right match for your team.

Part 3: Management

Once you have your team, you’ve decided on your technology stack, and your app development is underway, the challenges of moving forward with pace and continued progress become readily apparent. The task of managing a mobile app team certainly isn’t easy. With some simple tools and techniques, these challenges can be solved and your progress and forward momentum kept with plenty of pace.

In our article on the do’s and don’ts of managing a remote mobile app team, we cover some of the technologies and techniques you should consider to help you overcome the final hurdles standing between your app and its users.

Success in Mobile App Engineering

With the tools, technologies, people, and now management in place you’ve already accomplished some of the mobile app industry’s most challenging feats.

You’ve already come from an initial outline and rough idea to a fully functioning team and the methods in place to help them succeed. Make sure to stay up to date on the latest trends and check out our article on the future of mobile app engineering.

Now, at the end of this guide, you should have everything in place to publish your app to the store and take pole position in the mobile marketplace for some time to come.

How we select the top Mobile Developers

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Who is Pangea.ai not suited for?

Pangea.ai may not be the best fit for businesses, regardless of their size, seeking to procure software development services that adhere to a more localized, centralized, and onsite workforce model. If your preference leans towards traditional HR firms with account executives and constant interaction or agencies who cover every engagement model, tech stack, and domain, our platform may not align with your needs. Similarly, if you view agencies solely as an opportunity for cost arbitrage or tend to select agencies based on a certain bias, Pangea.ai, with its focus on global, merit-based partnerships and specialized talent, might not cater to your preferences.

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Pangea.ai is the go-to platform for businesses of all sizes that aim to harness the benefits of software development services in a global, remote, and distributed workforce. Emphasizing a self-serve marketplace model, we enable you to unlock world-class talent with a few clicks, focusing on boutique, specialized agencies who can bring unique value to your projects. We encourage a partnership mindset, where agencies are seen as equals to your in-house teams, fostering long-term collaborations. We believe in the immense potential of agencies markets for talent arbitrage and stand firm on selecting agencies based on their merit. So, if you're in pursuit of a tech team to build your entire product from scratch or ramp up your hiring with a couple of additional engineers, Pangea.ai is the ideal platform for you.

Why should businesses choose Pangea.ai?

As your reliable partner, Pangea.ai offers a unique method of finding top-notch tech agencies for your needs. We eliminate the guesswork in agency selection by combining AI with expert human analysis to match your project's unique requirements with the right tech partners.

How does Pangea.ai evaluate the Client Experience of an agency?

At Pangea.ai, we evaluate the Client Experience of a agency through a tailored survey dispatched to at least five active clients from the past six months. This survey gauges performance across eight critical aspects: Customer Journey, UI/UX Design, Project Management, Technical Expertise, Quality Assurance, Documentation Level, Business Maturity, and Process Maturity. Each of these segments gets a score, the collective average of which provides the overall Client Score. This evaluation is performed twice annually to ensure up-to-date, accurate representation of the agencies’ performance.

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The Team Health Score at Pangea.ai is computed using a proprietary algorithm that aggregates and processes the inputs received from our Team Vibe survey. This score reflects the average of the scores obtained in eight crucial segments: Satisfaction, Personal Growth, Peers Rapport, Management Rapport, Culture, Well-being, Feedback & Recognition, and Advocacy. These segments scores are based on employee input and sentiment, offering an insight-driven metric that genuinely reflects the health of an agency.

How does Pangea.ai evaluate Team Health of an agency?

Pangea.ai evaluates the Team Health of an agency using our proprietary product, Team Vibe. This is a survey distributed to each team member of an agency organization, measuring sentiment across eight key segments: Satisfaction, Personal Growth, Peers Rapport, Management Rapport, Culture, Well-being, Feedback & Recognition, and Advocacy. Each segment receives a score which then contributes to an overall Team Health score. A minimum participation rate of 75% is expected from the agency organization; however, our current average participation rate is 83.2%. For continuous and updated evaluations, Team Vibe is administered twice a year to each agency.

What does the onboarding process to Pangea.ai look like?

Onboarding at Pangea.ai follows a three-step process designed to ensure our platform hosts only the best agencies. First, prospective agencies complete a Team Vibe assessment, where they must attain a satisfactory Team Health score with a participation rate of 75% or higher. Second, agencies must provide a minimum of five client references, who then complete the Pangea Client Experience Survey and generate a satisfactory client score. The final step involves the agency completing their profile with data points that are verified through documentation by human experts within the Pangea.ai team. If the agencies' data meets or exceeds the average industry benchmark, they are welcomed to Pangea.ai. Agencies not meeting these benchmarks are given a period to improve before reconsideration.

How do I know that the agencies at Pangea.ai are trustworthy and reliable?

At Pangea.ai, we ensure that all our agencies are trustworthy and reliable through a comprehensive three-step onboarding process that spans over 4-6 weeks. This process involves rigorous verification of agencies' employee and client universes, alongside validation of key metrics and KPIs against industry benchmarks. Our stringent onboarding and listing fee aids in eliminating fraudulent agencies. Given its rigorous and time-consuming nature, this process selectively attracts agencies that align with Pangea.ai's vision and meet our stringent industry benchmarks. Furthermore, our agencies undergo regular evaluations to maintain up-to-date information, thereby discouraging unserious and unhealthy agencies who might not meet the stringent industry benchmarks. Hence, such agencies find it counterproductive to pay and spend time on onboarding while also having to adhere to ongoing evaluations.