Hire AWS developers for serverless apps, containers and data on AWS
Hire AWS developers from our in-house team in India to build on Lambda, ECS, RDS and S3, with the infrastructure written in Terraform or CDK. They work inside your AWS account, repositories and sprints, and you interview and choose each one.
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What an AWS developer does on your team
AWS hires usually take on one of two kinds of work. One is application code that calls AWS services, and the other is the account, network and pipeline underneath it. Tell us which one is slowing you down and we match the profile to it.
- What does an AWS developer do?
- An AWS developer builds and runs applications on Amazon Web Services. The work covers application code on Lambda, ECS or EC2, managed databases such as RDS and DynamoDB, storage on S3, IAM and network setup, infrastructure as code, and the monitoring and cost controls that keep an AWS account manageable as it grows.
AWS skills you get
Dedicated AWS developers from ScalaCode write the application and the infrastructure it runs on, and keep both in your repositories.
Serverless applications
They build APIs and background jobs on Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and Step Functions, for workloads that sit idle between bursts of traffic.
Containers on ECS, Fargate and EKS
They package services in Docker and run them on Fargate or EKS. ScalaCode built GymFit this way, with services on AWS Fargate and data in AWS RDS. DevOps engineers can own the pipelines and clusters around them.
Databases and data pipelines
They use RDS, Aurora and DynamoDB for application data and build pipelines into S3, Glue and Redshift when reporting or AI needs the data in one place.
See data engineeringInfrastructure as code
They write VPCs, clusters, queues and IAM in Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, reviewed in pull requests and deployed from your CI/CD pipeline.
Hire DevOps engineersIAM, networking and security
They design the VPC and set up least-privilege IAM roles, KMS encryption and Secrets Manager, with SOC 2, HIPAA or GDPR controls written into scope when your product needs them.
Monitoring and cost control
They set up CloudWatch dashboards, alarms and budget alerts, and run cost reviews that target idle databases, oversized compute, unused reservations and cross-zone data transfer.
Hire AWS developers, cloud engineers or solution architects
Most teams need an AWS developer first. Add a cloud engineer when the account itself has become the bottleneck, and a lead-level architect when a design decision is expensive to reverse.
| AWS developer | AWS cloud engineer | Solution architect | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main job | Application code that uses AWS services, such as APIs on Lambda or services on ECS | Accounts, networks, pipelines and infrastructure as code | Architecture decisions, design reviews and the plan other engineers build from |
| Hire when | You have a backlog of product features on AWS | The account grew by hand and nobody trusts a change to it | You are designing a new system or a move to AWS and want the design checked first |
| Rate | From $1,799 a month | From $1,799 a month | From $3,499 a month, lead level |
Every rate is full-time and dedicated, 160 hours a month. See all options on the Engagement models page.
How we vet AWS developers
Every AWS developer is a salaried employee on the ScalaCode payroll in India. We don't use freelancers or subcontractors, and these checks apply before and after a developer joins you.
Our technical interview
Every engineer on the team passed our technical interview and coding test before joining ScalaCode.
Your interview and test
You interview each shortlisted AWS developer and can set your own exercise, such as reviewing a Terraform plan. Nobody joins until you choose them.
Your AWS account, your access rules
Developers work through IAM roles or IAM Identity Center users that you create, and the root user and billing stay with your team.
Tests and staging
Automated tests run on every change, and releases go through staging before they reach your users.
IP from the first commit
Application code and infrastructure code are yours from the first commit, and NDAs are standard on every engagement.
How hiring an AWS developer works
From first call to first commit in about two weeks for most hires.
Get the AWS backlog moving
Send us the services you run and what needs building next, and matched AWS developer profiles follow within 48 hours.
Cost to hire AWS developers
Dedicated AWS developers start from $1,799 a month, senior engineers from $2,499 and leads from $3,499, all full-time. A fixed-scope migration to AWS starts from $4,999.
| Dedicated team | Fixed-scope project | Team extension | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it is priced | From $1,799 a month per engineer, full-time | Fixed quote after a free discovery sprint | Billed monthly per engineer |
| Best for | An ongoing AWS roadmap or a backlog of cloud work | A defined build with agreed milestones | A specific skill gap in a team you already run |
| Who manages day to day | You, inside your process | ScalaCode, against agreed milestones | Your leads, with our engineers reporting in |
Monthly means full-time and dedicated, 160 hours. Compare every option on the Engagement models page.
The AWS services our developers work in
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Clutch review★★★★★“What set ScalaCode apart was their deep understanding of both the technical and practical aspects of our industry.”
GoodFirms review★★★★★“Their team demonstrated deep knowledge in cloud security, automation, and performance optimization, allowing us to handle vast amounts of financial data efficiently.”
“Their approach, dedication and project execution played a critical role in TipStars' success.”
Clutch review★★★★★“What sets ScalaCode apart is their technical AI expertise and an understanding of a client's organizational ethos.”
Clutch review★★★★★“They understood the business side of our requirements and often brought up solutions or ideas we hadn't considered.”
GoodFirms review★★★★★“They built a high-performance, AI-powered platform that transformed video engagement for learning.”
Clutch review★★★★★“What stood out to us as most impressive and unique about ScalaCode was their ability to humanize complex AI.”
Hire AWS developers FAQs
Bring your architecture diagram, your AWS bill and your start date to the call.
How much does it cost to hire an AWS developer?
Dedicated AWS developers start from $1,799 a month for a mid-level engineer, $2,499 for a senior engineer and $3,499 for a lead. Each rate is full-time and dedicated, 160 hours a month, billed monthly. A fixed-scope migration to AWS starts from $4,999.
How fast can an AWS developer start?
Matched profiles reach you within 48 hours of the first call. After you choose, onboarding takes about a week, so most AWS developers make their first commit around two weeks after that call.
Will the developer work in our own AWS account?
Yes. The developer works through IAM roles or IAM Identity Center users that you create, and you decide what each one can touch. Keep the root user and billing with your own staff, and every resource stays in your account.
Should we build on Lambda or on containers?
Use Lambda for APIs and jobs with uneven traffic and short runs, because you pay only while code runs. Use ECS or Fargate for services that run all day, hold connections open or need longer than Lambda's 15-minute limit. Many products end up with both, and the choice is worth making per service.
Can an AWS developer reduce our AWS bill?
A cost review is a common first task for an AWS developer. It starts in Cost Explorer and targets idle databases, oversized compute, unused reservations and cross-zone data transfer, and the developer leaves CloudWatch dashboards and budget alerts in place so spend stays visible afterwards.
Can you move our product to AWS from another cloud or our own servers?
Yes. A migration to AWS runs as a fixed-scope project from $4,999, covering assessment, migration plan and cutover, or dedicated AWS developers can work through a plan your team already has. Our cloud and DevOps service page explains how a migration is run.
Can AWS developers build our data pipelines too?
Yes, for pipelines that feed your product, such as loading events into S3 and querying them with Athena or Redshift. A warehouse or reporting project across many source systems fits our data engineering service, which scopes the work first.
Who owns the code and the AWS resources?
You do. Code lives in your repositories, every resource lives in your AWS account, and the infrastructure code is yours from the first commit. NDAs are standard on every engagement.
What happens if the developer is not the right fit?
Tell us and we share new profiles. You interview the replacement the same way, and a change usually needs one to two weeks' notice.
Can AWS developers work in our time zone?
Yes. Our AWS developers work from India and overlap 4 to 6 hours of the US working day and most of the UK and European day. Stand-ups, code reviews and release windows happen inside that overlap.
Your engineers work in your hours
Timezone overlap is built in. Your matched engineers keep 4 to 6 hours of daily overlap with US hours and a full working day with the UK, Europe and the Middle East, so standups, reviews and fixes land during your working day.
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- AWS profiles matched on services and language within 48 hours
- You interview and choose who joins
- Code and resources stay in your repositories and AWS account
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