NorthStackHub places screened engineers, data, cloud, quality, security and delivery professionals with companies across the US and India — on contract, contract-to-hire, as dedicated project teams, or on our payroll while you direct the work. 8 specialist desks, each screening for the skills it recruits.
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Technology programmes succeed or fail on the people staffed to them. We make sure those people are right.
NorthStackHub is a contract staffing firm based in New Jersey and Hyderabad. We find, screen and employ the contractors companies bring in for their delivery work, and look after those contractors for as long as the engagement runs.
Learn more about usFour engagement models, one standard of screening. Whichever you choose, the contractor is on our payroll and working under your direction.
Skilled contractors for a defined term, on our payroll.
Typically 3–12 months, extendable
Work together on contract first, then convert to a permanent hire.
Usually a 3–6 month trial period
A small, assembled team against a statement of work.
Fixed to the statement of work
You found the contractor. We employ, pay and insure them.
As long as the engagement runs
Each with its own technical screen, run by someone who does the work.
Regulated finance, patient data, peak trading, critical infrastructure — we screen for the working context as well as the technical skill.
Core banking, payments, lending and insurance technology.
Clinical systems, health data and regulated software.
Storefronts, order management and customer platforms.
Product engineering for software and platform companies.
ERP, supply chain and operational systems.
Grid, metering, field operations and customer systems.
Connected vehicle, dealer and mobility platforms.
Network operations, OSS/BSS and digital media platforms.
What we promise
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Nobody reaches you unscreened.
Every profile we send has already passed a technical screen run by someone who does the work, a conversation about the role, and a reference check. You interview three people who can do the job, not thirty who matched a keyword.
Technical screen and references on every submission
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Contractors get paid on schedule, every cycle.
Good contractors stay where they are paid correctly and on time. We run the timesheets, payroll and compliance ourselves, so the people on your project are thinking about your project — not chasing an invoice.
Fixed pay calendar agreed before day one
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Both sides always know where things stand.
One named account manager for the company, one for the contractor. A check-in with both in the first week and every month after. Extensions, rate reviews and roll-offs are raised early, in writing, not discovered on the last Friday.
One named contact and a monthly check-in
Contractors placed by NorthStackHub are screened by people who understand their craft, paid on a fixed calendar, and never submitted to a company without their agreement.
Join a product squad rebuilding the merchant onboarding flow. The team owns a Next.js frontend and a set of Node.js services, and needs a senior engineer who can take a feature from ticket to production without hand-holding.
Migrate a set of legacy SQL Server pipelines onto Databricks and own their reliability afterwards. The client intends to convert this role to a permanent position at the end of the contract.
Build a retrieval-augmented support assistant over product documentation, with an evaluation harness that proves it is getting better rather than just different.
How contract hiring works in practice — screening, rates, onboarding and distributed teams — written for the hiring managers and contractors who deal with it every day.
For contractors: when to raise an extension, how to make the case for a higher rate, and how to handle a no without damaging a good assignment.
July 28, 2026 · NorthStackHub Delivery TeamFor contractors: the questions that tell you whether a role is real, what the terms are, and whether the recruiter will represent you well.
June 23, 2026 · NorthStackHub Talent TeamThe checks and paperwork to finish before day one, the access to have ready, and a first-week plan that gets a contractor shipping by Friday.
April 21, 2026 · NorthStackHub Accounts TeamThe languages, platforms and methods our technical screens cover today. These describe the skills we assess, not vendor partnerships. If something is not listed, ask — we will tell you straight whether we can screen for it.
Travel, education and commerce businesses whose technology work we have been part of.
Tell us the role or the team you need, or talk it through on a 30-minute call. We agree a written brief with you before we search.
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