Hire senior mobile developers.
Vetted iOS, Android, and React Native talent matched in 72 hours. Transparent per-builder pricing. Working builder embedded in two weeks under your team's day-to-day management.
$100+/hr
Senior US mobile contractor starting rate
72 hrs
From scoping call to curated shortlist
~2 weeks
From scoping call to working builder
3-to-5 months
Typical FTE search timeline for a senior mobile developer. By the time the hire is closed, the App Store cycle has moved on.
We hired a React Native engineer for an iOS performance problem. By month two, it was obvious the wrong tool was attacking the wrong layer.
The clearest engagements have a platform decided, not a job description.
A consumer iOS app where scroll performance slipped past acceptable. An Android app that has to ship through Play Store review on a deadline. A cross-platform React Native build where one team owns both stores. A native-to-cross-platform migration where velocity is the trade for performance. Senior mobile work in 2026 isn't 'build a mobile app.' It's deciding when native quality matters more than ship velocity, when the release pipeline is the actual bottleneck, when the offline behavior determines whether the app survives a launch.
What most teams try
Hire 'a mobile engineer' without specifying platform
Native iOS, native Android, and React Native are three different profiles. The shortlist looks qualified on paper; the fit becomes clear only after month two, when the wrong tool meets the actual work.
Force a cross-platform engineer onto a native performance scope
React Native engineers ship cross-platform features. They're not the right hire for SwiftUI rendering performance or Android Profiler-driven memory work. The framework abstracts the native layer the engineer needs to reach.
Hire before the release pipeline is ready
App signing, TestFlight or Google Play distribution, and mobile CI/CD are often not in place when builders arrive. Engagements that don't scope this work upfront lose early sprints to environment setup rather than feature work.
What A.Team brings
Vetted senior mobile talent under your team's management. Transparent rates. Team Success layer for engagement health.
Senior mobile talent, vetted at the seven-plus year band
Seven-plus years professional engineering experience (average eight to twelve). Six-stage vetting including guild peer review. App Store release experience and production app quality are part of the rubric, not just framework familiarity.
Curated shortlist in 72 hours, not 72 days
Typically three to four senior builders matched to your platform, your app type, your timezone, and your rate band. You interview. Working builder embedded by Week 2.
Per-builder rate stated on every Service Order
One rate per builder on the Service Order, no hidden tiers or success fees. Procurement-ready.
Three steps from scoping call to embedded builder.
Day 0: Scoping call
A 30-minute call to understand the work, the timezone, the rate band, and the engagement shape. No JD required.
Day 3: Curated shortlist
A curated shortlist (typically three to four senior builders) matched to your scope. You interview, you select.
Week 2: Builder embedded
Selected builder starts under your team's management. Team Success contact runs kickoff and stays close throughout.
Ready to scope an engagement?
Get a shortlistSenior mobile work covers four engagement archetypes.
Native iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit)
Shipping consumer or enterprise iOS apps in Swift. Owning UI flows, data layer, and platform integrations end-to-end. SwiftUI for new surfaces, UIKit where the codebase demands it. App Store review cycles understood and planned for.
Native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack)
Building Android apps in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose or the View system. Material guidelines applied with judgment. Play Store release pipeline configured and predictable. The device-fragmentation reality factored into the build, not discovered after launch.
React Native and cross-platform
For teams that need to ship to both stores from one codebase. React Native at production quality, with the native bridge knowledge needed when the framework's abstraction breaks down. Cross-platform doesn't mean lowest common denominator at the senior level.
Mobile architecture
State management, navigation, local persistence, networking layer. Release-pipeline setup (app signing, TestFlight or Firebase App Distribution, CI/CD for mobile builds) typically scoped inside the architecture role. The boring work that determines whether the team can ship weekly or not.
Scoping call to working builder
Across recent senior mobile engagements, the median time from scoping to embedded builder is about two weeks. FTE searches average three to five months.
Monthly retainer savings vs hourly
Monthly retainers run 5 to 15 percent below the equivalent hourly cost at full utilization and lock in builder availability.
Conversion fee floor for direct hires
If a contractor converts to FTE, the fee is the greater of $20,000 or three months at the monthly rate plus 10 percent. Published, not embedded.
Procurement, security, and engagement governance built in.
MSA + per-builder Service Order
Standard A.Team commercial structure. Hourly or monthly rate per builder. No managing partner fee.
Net-15 invoicing
Standard MSA terms. One rate per builder on the Service Order, no hidden tiers or success fees.
Team Success layer
Named contact runs kickoff, checks engagement health, owns escalation. Not a managing partner; a Team Success contact.
Re-match if a builder isn't fitting
Team Success scopes a re-match against existing engagement context. No separate trial-period contract required.
IP assignment from day one
Standard work-for-hire language in every Service Order.
Global builder pool, regional matching
Senior builders across the US, Western Europe, and select nearshore markets. Matched to your timezone and rate band.
Skip the 3-to-5-month FTE search.
A.Team matches vetted senior mobile developers (iOS, Android, React Native) in 72 hours at transparent per-builder rates.
Engineer rates in 2026
Rate context for senior engineers across the stack. While mobile-specific rates track senior engineering norms, the rates guide covers offshore comparisons, retainer math, and program-cost framing applicable to mobile engagements.
How to hire a mobile engineer
The decision framework for scoping a senior mobile hire. Platform decision, app type, evaluation rubric, and the common failure patterns (especially the release-pipeline trap).
Common questions about hiring mobile developers through A.Team
Senior US mobile contractor rates typically run $100 to $175 per hour, with seniority, sub-specialty, and platform depth driving the upper end. Architect-tier engagements approach $200 per hour. Rates are builder-set and reflect seniority, location, and specialization. Monthly retainers run 5 to 15 percent below the equivalent hourly cost at full utilization. Offshore senior rates run materially below the US bands, with the time-zone trade-off.
Yes. The network includes native iOS engineers (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit), native Android engineers (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), and cross-platform engineers (React Native, Flutter). Match starts from the platform decision: if the app needs native performance and feel, native is the answer; if the team needs to ship to both stores from one codebase and cross-platform quality is acceptable, React Native or Flutter fits.
Time from scoping call to shortlist: 72 hours. Time from scoping call to a working builder embedded in your team: roughly two weeks, depending on scope confirmation, your interview cadence, and (importantly for mobile) whether the release pipeline is configured.
React Native is well-represented in the network at the senior level. A meaningful share of senior React Native builders also carry native iOS or Android skills, which means the cross-platform/native crossover is real when a team needs both. For teams adding mobile to an existing React web codebase, senior React engineers with React Native experience also appear on /talent/roles/react-developer.
Yes. The conversion fee is the greater of $20,000 or three months at the monthly rate plus 10 percent. The structure is published in the master agreement.
Your team. A.Team's Team Success contact runs kickoff, checks in regularly throughout the engagement (cadence set with your team), and is the escalation path. There is no managing partner layer on standard team augmentation engagements.