Software Developer
Full-time software developers from India and the Philippines who give you 100% overlap with your US workday, from $3,000/mo all-in.
Exordiom places full-time software developers from India and the Philippines who own backend services and product features in your codebase. They design APIs, write tested code, review pull requests and keep production healthy, and work your full US workday. Pricing starts at $3,000 per month, and you see vetted profiles within 48 hours.
Get software developer profilesQuick facts
| Role | Software developer (backend and product engineering) |
|---|---|
| SOC code | 15-1252 Software Developers |
| US median pay | $135,980 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025) |
| Exordiom starting price | From $3,000 a month for one full-time seat |
| Time to profiles | 48 hours |
| Time to first hire | As little as 10 days (full team in 2 to 3 weeks) |
| Talent markets | India and the Philippines |
| Working hours | Your full US workday, US hours only |
Role highlights
What does a software developer own day to day?
They own services, APIs and features, from design note to release.
Which languages should a software developer know?
Usually one of Go, Java, Python, TypeScript or C#, plus SQL, Git and a major cloud.
How is this different from a full stack developer?
It goes deeper on backend systems, data and reliability than on UI.
Who else hires software developers in India and the Philippines?
MongoDB, GitLab, Databricks and PayPal all have open software engineering roles in India on Oct 30, 2026.
Will my software developer work my full US workday?
Yes. US hours only, a full workday on your US schedule, in your Slack and standups.
How much does it cost to hire a software developer offshore?
Our US benchmark is the BLS category SOC 15-1252, Software Developers.
| Option | Cost |
|---|---|
| US median wage, BLS OEWS SOC 15-1252 (May 2025) | $135,980 a year, about $11,332 a month before benefits |
| US software developer, average base salary (Built In, Oct 2026) | $145,521 a year, $163,611 with additional cash pay |
| Exordiom software developer | From $3,000 a month, about $18.75 an hour across 160 hours |
One flat monthly fee covers salary, benefits, payroll and compliance, billed from the start date with no annual lock-in. A 10-day no-cost replacement backs every seat.
Who is hiring software developers in India and the Philippines?
Companies with open software developer roles in India and the Philippines, October 2026:
Teams like Bespoke Labs and Netlify hire software developers through Exordiom.
How does hiring a software developer with Exordiom work?
- 1
Share the codebase and the gap.
Tell us your stack and the first problem you'd like solved.
- 2
Review vetted developers in 48 hours.
Each one passed an AI coding interview plus live engineering rounds.
- 3
Decide with a short work sample.
Read a short take-home, hold one final interview, then choose.
- 4
Start on your full US workday.
Exordiom sets up the offer, payroll, compliance and equipment.
Software developer guide: day-to-day scope, engineering skills to test, interview questions and India vs Philippines
What a software developer works on
- Design and build backend services and REST or gRPC APIs that product teams call every day
- Model data in Postgres or MySQL, write migrations safely and tune slow queries
- Turn product specs into small, reviewable pull requests with unit and integration tests
- Instrument code with logs, metrics and traces, and take a fair share of the on-call rotation
- Pay down tech debt: split modules, upgrade dependencies and remove dead code paths
- Write short design docs before larger changes and review teammates' code with care
- Work with QA, DevOps and product managers so features ship behind flags and roll back cleanly
Engineering skills to test
| Skill | What good looks like |
|---|---|
| Core language depth | Writes idiomatic code in your main language and explains its concurrency and memory tradeoffs |
| API and service design | Versions endpoints, validates input and returns errors a client team can act on |
| Data modeling | Picks indexes on purpose, avoids N+1 queries and plans zero-downtime migrations |
| Testing discipline | Tests observable behavior and keeps the suite fast enough to run on every push |
| Production ownership | Reads dashboards, follows a runbook during incidents and writes a blameless postmortem |
| Code review | Leaves specific, kind comments and spots security and performance risks early |
Interview questions and how Exordiom vets
- An endpoint got three times slower after a release. How do you find out why?
- Walk us through a schema change you shipped without downtime.
- How would you design idempotent retries for a payment or webhook handler?
- What makes a pull request easy to review, and what makes it hard?
- Tell us about a production incident you owned from page to postmortem.
- When do you split a service, and when do you keep a modular monolith?
Red flags: no tests in recent work, blaming other teams for outages, giant pull requests, copy-pasted code they cannot explain, and no habit of reading logs or metrics.
Exordiom recruits engineers who are employed and doing well today, so there's no bench of idle candidates. Before you meet anyone, each candidate passes an AI interview tuned to your stack, plus human rounds on character, acumen, grit and experience. Once your developer starts, Hypercare check-ins run in weeks 1 and 2, then every four weeks from week 6.
India vs Philippines for software developers
As of Oct 30, 2026, India has the larger engineering pool: MongoDB, Databricks, GitLab, Rubrik and ZoomInfo are hiring software engineers in Bengaluru, PayPal in Chennai, and Coinbase hires remotely across India. In the Philippines, Manulife is hiring software engineers in Quezon City, and the pool is smaller but strong in Java and TypeScript product work. In both markets your software developer works your full US workday.
FAQ
What does a software developer do?
A software developer designs, writes, tests and maintains the code behind your product, most often backend services, APIs and the data models underneath them.
How much does it cost to hire a software developer through Exordiom?
A full-time software developer starts at $3,000 a month, roughly $18.75 an hour. Billing is monthly and begins on your developer's first day.
How quickly can Exordiom place a software developer?
Vetted developer profiles reach you in 48 hours, and your first hire can start in as little as 10 days.
Will my software developer work my hours?
Yes. Exordiom gives you 100% overlap with your US workday: your software developer works US hours only, not the 3 to 5 hours of overlap typical offshore teams share (Full Scale, Trango Tech, checked Oct 30, 2026).
Should I hire a software developer or a full stack developer?
Hire a software developer when the work is services, APIs, data and reliability. If one person must also own the UI, a full stack developer fits better.
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Talk to an Exordiom expertSources: BLS OEWS via the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Software Developers (SOC 15-1252), May 2025 median wage, checked Oct 30, 2026 · Built In, software developer salary in the US, checked Oct 30, 2026 · Full Scale, offshore time zone overlap, checked Oct 30, 2026 · Trango Tech, offshore overlap hours, checked Oct 30, 2026 · Per-month BLS number = annual median / 12. Exordiom price and timing: exordiom.com, October 2026.
