Guide: How to Find and Hire Expert Remote iOS Developers for Your App?

But stay calm and keep on reading, cause today we’re going to share with you some useful tips that will help you to find and hire the best iOS developers among all!

📝 Preparation Stage: Define Your Requirements Crystal Clear

If you set your aim as “find an iOS developer”, it sounds like “I need to buy a car”.

👱 Option # 1: Hire a Freelancer

When people are looking for iOS developers for hire, freelancers are often a popular option to consider. But let’s take a closer look.

When should you look for a freelancer?

If you’re interested to hire experienced and reliable mobile developers who will work with you for a long time and on many different projects, then freelancers aren’t the best solution for you.

The search for this type of developer may be reasonable when you need someone to work on one specific project for a limited time. For example, he may be asked to implement some features/technologies into your app, fix bugs, update the UI or build it from scratch but without further support. Check this Upwork page with job offers for iOS developers to see real examples:

What will be our brief conclusion? Choosing a freelancer to work on your project is usually a pretty risky decision. You can spend your time and money but eventually get an unsatisfactory result from the unskilled contractor.

So, let’s talk about another option - a remote full-time contract developer.

👨‍💻 Option # 2: Hire a Digital Nomad

You will have better chances to find an app developer if you consider working with a remote full-time contract developer. They are often called digital nomads (you can read a bit more on Wikipedia) so we will use this term too.

Finally, there is one more option to consider - outstaffing services.

👨‍🎓 Option # 3: Hire iOS Developers Through a Digital Agency

If you are looking for a serious development partner, you should pay most attention to this part of our article. Why? Because it’s the most reliable and suitable option in many cases!

When will a mobile agency be the best choice for you?

Outstaffing is a type of remote cooperation when you hire a specific employee from the IT agency to work in your company. Usually, you tell the agency about the project and your needs and they provide you with a professional (or several ones, if you need) who will become a remote member of your team and will adjust to your internal processes.

So far we reviewed many different ways to find iOS developers for hire. But how to understand that this candidate perfectly suits your needs and is the one you should recruit? That’s what our next paragraph is about!

🤔 Factors to Consider When Choosing an iOS Developer

Before you hire a mobile app developer, we recommend you to think how well he meets the following requirements.

# 1: Experience 🗃️

Developer’s experience is one of the main factors to consider when choosing one. We already mentioned main software developer levels earlier, let’s briefly remind them:

• Juniors – less than 2 years.
• Middles – 2-5 years.
• Seniors – 5+ years.

# 5: Communication 💬

Last but not least. The quality of personal communication is essential for the success of your project. Do you get along with your developer? Does he understand your requirements?

Make sure you speak one language (metaphorically and literally) otherwise you may find yourself in a high-risk zone with no way out.

💡 Conclusion

So, these were tips & hints on how to find an iOS developer (and then make the right choice) from the Stormotion team. Three main options you’ve got are: