Turnkey.dev Verified Company

Turnkey.dev connects companies with pre-vetted senior developers, usually within a few days of a request. It is operated by Webisoft, a Montreal-based software engineering firm, and was built to sit between two flawed ways of hiring: open freelance marketplaces, which are fast but leave the client to do all the screening, and premium vetted networks, which do the vetting but charge a heavy markup and lock clients into a rigid process. Turnkey.dev aims for the middle: real vetting, a lighter engagement process, and hourly rates that are visible before anyone commits to anything.

The vetting itself has five parts. Every developer in the network goes through a technical screen focused on real language and framework depth rather than trivia questions, a practical exercise designed to mirror actual product work, a review of shipped projects and code where that is available, reference and background checks, and an assessment of communication and collaboration. The team states plainly that most applicants are rejected, with the goal that anyone who does make it onto a shortlist is someone the company would be comfortable staffing on its own client work.

Hiring runs in five steps. A client describes the role, the surrounding stack, seniority, and timeline, which takes only a couple of minutes and requires no account or sales call to get started. Turnkey.dev then matches candidates from its vetted pool against that stack, seniority, and timezone. The client typically receives a shortlist within a few days, complete with background, rate, and availability for each candidate. From there the client can interview and run a short paid trial on real work before deciding. Finally, the client hires full time, part time, or for a fixed-scope project, and can request a free replacement within the first two weeks if the fit turns out to be wrong.

The network spans 26 technologies across six categories: frontend (Angular, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vue), backend (.NET/C#, Go, Java, Laravel, Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails), mobile (Android/Kotlin, Flutter, iOS/Swift, React Native), cloud and DevOps (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), AI and data engineering, and a specialized bucket covering embedded systems, game development, and QA automation. Published hourly rates run from roughly $45 to $160 depending on stack and seniority. Requesting a shortlist costs nothing; turnkey.dev earns a margin on the engagement once a client hires, at a rate agreed to up front.