Engineers to get AI working in your business.
Gigson's forward deployed engineers embed with your team, own the work from discovery to launch, and hand over a system your people can run.
Teams that have hired through Gigson
Three ways to work with us
Hand us an outcome, have us run the hire, or search the talent pool yourself.
Why teams choose Gigson
Your working day, your code, our engineers.
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Same working day
West Africa runs on UTC+1 all year: the whole UK, European and Nigerian working day, plus US East Coast mornings.
02
Senior and customer-facing
Every FDE is vetted on shipped integration work, judgement with messy requirements, and how they talk to your stakeholders.
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Your code, your IP
IP assigned to you, an NDA from day one, and all work in your own repositories.
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A community behind every hire
Our engineers come from a Slack community of 23k+ developers, where about 8,000 jobs have been posted.
What engineering leaders say
"The quality bar is noticeably higher than what we were seeing on LinkedIn or Toptal. These are developers who have been through a real vetting process."
Eniola Bello
Head of Engineering, Helium Health
"We needed to scale our team fast. Gigson's managed service meant we didn't have to dedicate internal resources to the search. We had interviews within 3 days."
Taiwo Lawal
CTO
"The developers hired through Gigson provided satisfactory expertise and professionalism, consistently meeting our project goals."
Douglas Kendyson
Founder and CEO, Selar
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Questions, answered
- What is a forward deployed engineer?
- A senior engineer who works inside your team on one deployment and owns getting it live: discovery, integration, build, launch and handover. Unlike a contractor billing hours, they are accountable for the outcome.
- Do your engineers work on site?
- They are remote-first, working in your Slack, repositories and calls, and they can visit your team in person when the work needs it.
- How much does a deployment cost?
- We scope and price each deployment after a short call, either as a fixed fee for a fixed scope or as a small pod. Managed hires are priced by seniority.
- Can we hire a forward deployed engineer onto our team?
- Yes. FDEs can also be hired through our managed service, the same way as any other engineer.
- What other engineers can we hire?
- Frontend, backend, full stack, mobile, DevOps and cloud engineers, blockchain developers, and specialists in fintech and healthtech.
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