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Hire vetted talent for contract or full time roles. Find a perfect skill fit for your team. Start your free trial now.
Getting started
Hiring made simple
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Search and invite vetted talent
Find talent with the skill sets you need. Register to invite them for roles.
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Get introduced immediately
When the talent accepts your invite, you’ll be introduced to them in the LD Slack. You can chat with them and coordinate an interview.
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Interview and hire for contract/full-time
Interview the talent to gauge interest, fit, and time estimates. Hire your selections for contract or full-time work.
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Only pay for work you are satisfied with
Contract talent track half-hour Slack-based work sessions. These are transparent and efficient. You can review the sessions to ensure you only pay for work you are fully satisfied with.
Unique features
See the future of work
Diverse vetted talent
Talent on LD are the skilled few who pass our tough vetting and training, and consistently perform.
5-hour free trial
Start with a ~5h free trial ($100 credit). Test whether talent fits your needs and meets expectations. See how much you can get done with $100 of LD free credit.
Transparent and efficient work sessions
No need to ask “how’s it going?” Talent on LD will show detailed work progress through half hour slack work sessions. Only pay for work your satisfied with.
Timeline scoping/budgeting
Get granular estimates during the interview, confirm speed and estimate fidelity in the free trial, agree on a scoped timeline, and exercise budget control by reviewing work sessions.
Timezone diversity as a strength
The sun never sets on your distributed team. Your team never stops working, you’re always passing the baton, and you can offer your customers support 24 hours a day.
Vetting process
Comprehensive multidimensional vetting
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Application ScreeningWe recruit talent who are often from established alma maters and who always have strong code samples and technical abilities. We ensure they have multiple experiences leveraging their skillset, and have delivered on real world projects. We cross reference their open source work, professional profiles, and transcripts to confirm their background and abilities.
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Soft Skills InterviewDuring the interview, our team assesses the talent’s communication, availability, team spirit, creativity, responsibility, empathy, and other soft skills. The people we admit are entrepreneurial and whole-brained, the kind who think outside the box and whom we would personally enjoy working with.
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Live Technical InterviewThe interview involves asking detailed questions to evaluate their skills, logical reasoning, knowledge of agile processes, design ability, workflow, output quality, and breadth across diverse technologies. In addition, there are system design walkthroughs, and additional coding or design challenges.
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Ongoing Performance EvaluationWe continuously evaluate their productivity, responsiveness, and growth. In particular, we track their client satisfaction through ratings and commitment to lifelong learning through passion projects completed.
Agile Development Process
Productivity
Responsiveness
Teamwork
Software Engineering
Logical Thinking
Technical Strength
Intellectual Merit
English Communication
System Design
Enterprising
Divergent Thinking
Creativity
Design Ability
Empathy
Project Management Ability
Algorithmic Thinking
Testing
Complex Logic
Models
Controllers
Templates
APIs
Training Data Models
Testing Data Models
Code Readability
Passion Projects
Coding Competency
Talent pool
Diverse vetted talent
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400+
Talent
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300+
Skills
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100+
Clients
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$24/h
Average rate
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2 months
Average MVP time
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2K
Average MVP cost
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85%
Free trial conversion
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24 hours
Time to hire
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90+
Lifelong learning projects
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25+
Listings by funds/incubators
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1/3
Reduction in hiring cost
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1/2
Reduction in project completion time
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400+
Talent
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300+
Skills
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100+
Clients
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$24/h
Average rate
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2 months
Average MVP time
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2K
Average MVP cost
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85%
Free trial conversion
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24 hours
Time to hire
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90+
Lifelong learning projects
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25+
Listings by funds/incubators
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1/3
Reduction in hiring cost
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1/2
Reduction in project completion time
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What sets us apart
Our culture
Vision
We aim to democratize expert engineering and design. Given the rise of remote distributed teams in the new normal, we envision a future of work where diverse world-class talent and global collaborations are core to every industry.
Good value
LD is a high quality, vetted talent network with the pricing model of a marketplace. Our free trial allows you to build trust with talent. We have developed future-of-work affordances like slack work sessions that allow you move quickly and cost effectively. If you eventually want to hire talent directly, our platform buyout is reasonable.
Mission
Diversity meets Capitalism: Our mission is to help teams become stronger by encouraging them to drop location constraints that unknowingly exclude qualified, motivated, and efficient underrepresented people from impactful roles they are perfect for. They are undervalued and overlooked by industry.
Lifelong learning
To fill the high demand for STEM talent, LD financially incentivizes lifelong learning and professional development. LD members learn new skills by doing passion projects, and are compensated when they post them on LD Blog for peers to review. Such vibrant activity allows LD to know who knows what and offer you immediate access to the world’s brightest up and coming talent.
Testimonials
What our clients say
We worked with the talent of LD on SEO for our e-commerce store. We got their help to identify the gaps and optimize our content and images for SEO. They were responsive during our work periods and helped explain the steps and services that we need.
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Daniel Osvath
Mentum (Y Combinator)
Our LD engineer did excellent work helping us write software to identify AI-enabled companies to invest in at Baidu Ventures.
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Raunak Kasera
Baidu Ventures
On LD we found a full stack software engineer who did really great work for the equipment tracking software we're building at SiteTrace.
Catherine Jiang
SiteTrace (500 Startups)
It was a wonderful experience. We found a good engineer through LD who is making an innovative UX. It is really going to help Infosys customers visualize financial visions and outcomes. I’d like to share the LD Talent service with other teams within and outside Infosys.
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Swami Sundaresan
Infosys
I like that I can see all the skills I can filter by. Super useful. Love what you built with the Slack bot. We even found full time talent on LD.
Phoebe Yao
Pareto (StartX)
I can say that the engineer I worked with at LD Talent did an excellent job, highly efficiently and with a very positive attitude. They were delight to work with. I will not hesitate to use LD Talent again when another project comes up.
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Wayne Willis
Yale69
I have been happy with my LD experience. I like seeing time logged and seeing my balance update via Slack. Project management thru Asana works just fine for us. One thing we keep in mind as we become pro users of LD’s system is that we should be clear on exactly what we want from each work session.
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Samay Devraj
Anamiva
The most unique aspect of LD was the ease in which we were able to get the work we needed completed. The LD process, including messaging, contracts and billing, made it easy for our team to use the service. And something that I expected would be painful like hiring a software engineer actually ended up being a very fun and affordable experience. I would highly recommend anyone looking for software services in the future to use LD!
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Sylesh Volla and Jaebum Lee
ESL Hunter
I had used other talent sourcing platforms before with some success but what I found different and refreshing is the quality of talent pool that has been established by LD. Their passion for identifying the resources with the qualification and skills necessary for each of the disciplines they support shines through as a result of their rigorous vetting process.
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Bala Ganesh
Staks
Excellent experience working with engineers from LD to build this mobile app using React Native for iOS and Android.
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Prof. Sridhara Dasu
UW Madison
LD Talent has been a godsend for us as a very small startup. We have connected with some amazing programmers who are all very knowledgeable and hard working. We expect to continue with LD Talent for all of our foreseeable programming needs as a business.
Ashley Van Cott
Writewise (Startup Chile)
We were so satisfied with the LD engineer that we decided to pay the buyout fee and hire them directly as our employee. Great that there was a reasonable buyout fee to hire them directly easily.
Ashkon Farhangi
Blossom
The quality that I think makes LD engineers most valuable is their embrace of new technical challenges. While working on the beta version of Doornox, the engineer and I encountered several small bugs and larger technical challenges that the engineer had never programmed before. The engineer quickly researched similar issues using online resources, consulted comparable challenges in his past projects, and used the analysis of careful trial and error in our code to implement quite complex technical features into the website. Our LD engineer has the drive, the technical ability, and the analytical techniques to solve the problem. This quality is by far the highest asset for any programmer.
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Niki Agrawal
Doornox
LD Talent provides the best way I’ve seen to involve top-notch engineers at a moment’s notice. We needed someone who could take a glance at our code and quickly integrate several aspects of our platform. There wasn’t time for a long recruitment process, or for sifting through online proposals. Without LD Talent, we would have struggled to find such a high quality engineer on such a short timeline.
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Liam McCarty
UnumID
Our engineer had good knowledge on cutting edge technologies as well as passion on business. They fully analyzed product requirements and UI mocks provided to them, architected the full stack of software (Django, DB, Cloud instance), and contributed to the core implementation. They also had good project management skills to lead our team members for execution. We would like to recommend LD Talent to the companies that need to build modern web appearance, or bring their business to digital world.
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Pochang Hsu and Catherine Fang
ECAdvisor
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