Hire serverless developers who design for cold starts and event triggers, not a server that isn't there.
Function-as-a-service backends, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, and event-driven architecture, for teams that want compute that scales to zero and pays per invocation, built by engineers who design around the real constraints (cold starts, execution limits, statelessness) rather than treating serverless as a free performance upgrade.
Small, single-purpose functions triggered by events (HTTP, queue, schedule), not a monolith split arbitrarily.
Runtime and package size choices that keep latency-sensitive paths fast on a cold invocation.
Queues, streams, and webhooks wired so functions react to real state changes, not polling loops.
Per-invocation cost tracked against usage, with distributed tracing across a function graph that has no single running process to inspect.
What strong Serverless Developers know cold.
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Hiring for something adjacent?
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Cloud Computing covers broader infrastructure, provisioned servers, autoscaling groups, vendor architecture decisions. This role is specifically function-based, event-driven backends: no server to provision at all, compute that scales to zero. Some projects need both; we'll scope accordingly.
Right, and we'll be upfront about the tradeoffs: cold-start latency on infrequently called functions, execution time limits, and statelessness that requires external storage for anything that needs to persist. It's excellent for spiky, event-driven workloads and a poor fit for long-running or highly latency-sensitive processes.
Not if it's designed with cost in mind from the start. We model expected invocation volume and set concurrency limits so an unbounded fan-out or a traffic spike doesn't turn into a surprise invoice.
Yes. Though we'll scope it honestly, not every endpoint benefits. Spiky, independent, event-triggered endpoints are strong candidates; a tightly coupled, stateful service usually isn't, and we'd say so rather than force the migration.
Every way out of this hire is already written down.
Not a fit? Replace anyone in the first two weeks. No questions asked, no replacement fee. We re-match from the same vetted pool.
You pay only for engineers who actually start. Seeing candidates costs nothing.
Dedicated and managed engagements run on a monthly rolling contract. Cancel with notice.
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Bring us the workload. Three matched engineers in 48 hours.
Tell us the traffic pattern, steady or spiky, latency-sensitive or not. We'll scope whether serverless genuinely fits or whether a always-on service is the honest answer.
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