Fraction is the only hiring platform designed for senior developers looking for part-time employment, and for growing companies looking to hire developers from top US corporations. Fraction taps into developers' spare capacity, allowing developers to work with teams on an ongoing basis, which creates a cost-effective approach to traditional hiring.  

We help companies source developers, ensuring you’re presented candidates with a deep understanding of your tech stack and business vertical. Our one week risk-free trial gives you access to candidates not in the job market, enabling you to work with senior developers prior to extending an offer, and ensuring a great fit before the hire.

US-based, Senior Developers
Fraction provides access to a network of talented senior US-based developers to growing companies. Our US-based developers work in your time zone ensuring more seamless communication and meeting participation.

Cost-Effective
Companies can add fractional developers to their team with confidence that they will be available long-term, and agree to join 2-3 team standups and 2 longer meetings per week. Tapping employed developers' spare capacity makes this approach cost-effective compared to traditional consulting or direct hiring. Augment Dev Teams with

Long-Term Engagements
Companies looking to expand can leverage fraction.work to augment their existing development teams with proven talent. Fractional developers stay with your team on an open-ended basis, just like your full-time staff but without the full-time fees.

We bring the talent of senior developers at top US corporations to market by tapping into developers’ spare capacity to help growing companies. We help companies add developers to their team to contribute long-term on a part time basis. Since fraction taps the entire US developer workforce, companies can access top developers for virtually any technology. Tapping developers' spare capacity makes this approach cost-effective compared to traditional consulting or direct hiring.

US-Based Senior Talent with 5+ Years’ Experience
Our experienced developers offer full-stack, front-end and back-end services, and are ready to quickly get up to speed and to get code into production.

Hyper-Efficient Workforce
Fraction's developers are full-time senior developers with spare capacity, ability and interest to contribute to other projects. Not to mention ambitious, independent, and driven individuals.

Committed to Ongoing, Long-Term Positions
Fraction saves companies and developers the hassles of the gig economy freelancing by offering open-ended, long-term positions within your team to maximize growth.

We require all candidates to pass a live programming exercise conducted by MIT-educated engineers. Each dev must score 90+ on this test. We also vet for communication skills, independence and initiative. Candidates that pass then undergo a qualitative assessment to ensure they can work well without daily guidance.

We are committed to high-quality standards and have stringent quality control measures in place. Fraction vets all of it's US-based developers, and other skillsets. Most of them work for top tech companies you already know, trust, and respect.

It can be quite cost-effective! Expect to pay less than if you directly hired the same developer. By outsourcing with us, companies can access top-notch talent at a fraction of the cost compared to hiring full-time in-house developers. Fraction sources part-time developers for less than offshore and nearshore solutions. We provide US developers at a rate cost-competitive with offshore development firms based in eastern Europe and Latin America.

Utilizing a Project Manager along with designers and devs allows us to more confidently guarantee client satisfaction. PMs set expectations and track progress so the pace and ROI is visible. By working closely with the devs, PMs are able to help foresee challenges and schedule buffer time accordingly, or ask for a tech architect's help before something becomes a problem. It's our most valued quality control measure for any project.

Traditionally when you think of hiring part-time, you think of measuring work in hours per week. Here at Fraction, we don't use timesheets as we believe that both your and your dev's time is better spent getting stuff done than tracking time. That's what PMs are for. Besides, our fractional talent is usually experienced enough to estimate and manage how long a task will take on their own.

But, for the sake of clarity, you can think of Half Time as approximately 20 - 30 hours worth of work, and attending 2 - 3 stand up meetings per week. Quarter Time is around 10 - 15 hours worth of work, and attending 1 - 2 meetings per week. Half Time is recommended for tight deadlines, as more work is able to get done during the week.

Our fractional hires are available for 2-3 stand-up meetings, and 1-2 longer meetings per week. Fractional developers use your Slack or Microsoft Teams, and are responsive to messages during the day — even as they do larger blocks of work on their own time.

The fractional model is intended to be long-term. This enables part-time developers to be part of your team and develop knowledge of your business. We have seen developers stay in the same fractional role for 8+ years while changing their full-time job.

A clear communication strategy and comprehensive project management tools will ensure you remain at the helm of your project. Fraction builds in the necessary structure and talent to ensure you are in full control.

We filter out all candidates whose current employment engagements might cause issues around non-compete clauses, NDAs, or IP ownership. Any fractional developer you consider will have full freedom to work with you. (Even if your startup is still in stealth mode.)

UPDATE 4/23/2024: The FTC has issued a ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses, so there's even less reason to worry about hiring a fractional worker with a full-time job.