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Hire Solidity developers

Contracts, marketplaces and the indexing layer around them — written by people who treat the on-chain surface as the irreversible part, because it is.

What hiring a Solidity engineer here gets you

The terms, before the pitch.

Senior and mid+ Solidity engineers, billed per engineer per month with a three-month minimum, embedded in your team. Evidenced by a shipped Polygon marketplace with gas-optimised contracts and real-time indexing that reached $2.4M in first-month trading volume, and by NEAR on our client list.

The discipline that matters in this role is restraint about scope. A duplication bug in ordinary software is a rollback; a duplication bug that minted assets is a permanent supply change and often a legal conversation. Keeping the on-chain surface deliberately small is the cheapest way to control both risk and cost.

What a Solidity engineer covers here

Six things this role owns, rather than a list of technologies.

Contract development

ERC-721, ERC-1155 and custom contracts, written against a threat model rather than a feature list — reentrancy, access control, integer overflow, oracle manipulation.

Upgradeability, decided up front

Transparent or UUPS proxy patterns, chosen at deployment because they cannot be added to a deployed contract retroactively. Getting this wrong is unrecoverable.

Gas optimisation

Storage layout, batching and calldata work. On a marketplace this is not a micro-optimisation — it is the difference between users transacting and users bouncing.

Indexing and read paths

Subgraphs and event indexers, so the interface reads state in milliseconds instead of querying a chain per render.

Internal security review

Standard on every engagement, covering the four classes above. Not a substitute for an external audit, and we say which one you need.

Wallet and dApp integration

The frontend side: connection flows, transaction states, and making a pending transaction legible rather than a spinner.

The stack we staff for

What these engineers work in day to day.

Contracts

SolidityHardhatFoundryOpenZeppelinERC-721 / 1155

Chains

EthereumPolygonArbitrumBaseOptimismBNB Chain

Read layer

The Graphethers.jsviemIPFS

Adjacent

MarketplaceNFT game assetsDeFi primitives

How the engagement works

Six steps from a role brief to an engineer on your board.

Define the role

The stack, the seniority, and what the first month has to produce. That last part is the one most role briefs leave out, and it is the one that makes a shortlist useful.

Meet the engineers

You interview, against your bar and your process. If we do not have the right person for the role we say so rather than putting forward the nearest one — a bad match costs you a quarter.

Contract and NDA

An NDA before any of your code or design material is shared. You hold 100% of the IP from day one. Work can start within 1–2 weeks of signing.

Onboard into your process

Your board, your repo, your standups, your review conventions. The target for week one is a small change landed in your pipeline, not an architecture proposal.

Run it monthly

Billed per engineer per month, $4,000–$7,000 by seniority and from $4,000. Three months minimum, then rolling — below three months onboarding eats most of the value and both sides know it.

Scale or stop

Add engineers as the work grows, or end it with notice. A team of two to eight plus a tech lead is the usual shape, with a QA engineer when the work needs one.

When this is the wrong choice

Outstaffing is the wrong shape for some of the work people bring to it, and finding that out in month two is expensive for everyone.

You need an audit, not an engineer

Internal review is standard and it is not an audit. For contracts holding meaningful value the answer is a specialist firm — Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, Certik — which we arrange and pass through at cost.

The gameplay is meant to run on-chain

Block times are seconds and gameplay is milliseconds. Ownership belongs on-chain, the game loop does not, and crossing that line is where most Web3 game projects lose a year.

Tokenomics is the open question

That is an economics problem before it is an engineering one. A Solidity engineer will implement whatever you specify, faithfully, including a design that does not work.

Common questions

The three that come up on nearly every first call about this role.

No, and treating internal review as an audit is the mistake worth avoiding. Internal security review is standard on every engagement and covers reentrancy, access control, integer overflow and oracle manipulation. An audit is an independent third party with no stake in the code, and for anything holding meaningful value that independence is the whole point. We arrange those with specialist firms and pass the cost through without a markup.
No — nobody can. Upgradeability is a property of how a contract was deployed, through a transparent or UUPS proxy, and it cannot be added afterwards. What is possible is a migration: deploy a new contract, move state, and point the interface at it. That is real work with real user-facing consequences, and it is worth an honest conversation before you assume it is a patch.
Usually decided by where your users already hold wallets and which marketplaces your assets need to appear on, not by the technology. Among EVM chains the technical differences that matter to most projects are gas cost and finality time. We work across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, BNB Chain and Avalanche, and the recommendation follows your audience rather than our preference.

What this role has shipped

Two deliveries, and the first one you can install.

Need a Solidity engineer on the board?

Tell us the role, the stack and when you need someone starting. We come back with who we can put on it and what it costs, in writing.

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