Top 1% Engineers

Based in Office

AI-Native

Hire AI-native Engineers and save $143,000 per senior

Top 1% developers from Vietnam. 6 hours of daily overlap with the US & European time zone. Our engineers show up to an office, ship clean code, and use AI tools the way your best hire does.

Access a network of 10,000+ pre-vetted engineers in Vietnam.

Trusted by global enterprises and 100+ startups from pre-seed to Series B.

Why Engineering Leaders Choose AppGenie

Your Team, Your Time

The offshore model breaks when engineers are isolated contractors working from coffee shops with no accountability, no peers, and no reason to stay.

AppGenie engineers are based in our co-working hubs across Vietnam — Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, and beyond. They work together in person. They hold each other to a standard. They're part of a team before they're part of yours.

That's why our retention rate is 98%. Engineers don't leave when they feel like they belong somewhere.

offices across Vietnam

100%

employment compliance

10,000+

hours saved

24/7

global support

The Talent You Can't Hire Locally

Hire the Top 1% of AI-Native Engineers from Vietnam

We don't just vet for technical skills. Every AppGenie engineer is assessed on three dimensions: coding ability, English fluency, and AI-tool proficiency. If they can't use AI to code faster, they don't pass.

AI & Machine Learning

Software Development

Data Engineering & Analytics

DevOps & Infrastructure

Product Development

AI & Machine Learning

Software Development

Data Engineering & Analytics

DevOps & Infrastructure

Product Development

AI Engineer

AI Prompt Engineer

Platform Architect (AI/ML Platforms)

AI Research Scientist

Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning/AI Engineer

Computer Vision Engineer

Data Scientist (AI Focus)

AI Engineer

AI Prompt Engineer

Platform Architect (AI/ML Platforms)

AI Research Scientist

Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning/AI Engineer

Computer Vision Engineer

Data Scientist (AI Focus)

Hai Nguyen

Machine Learning Engineer

Minh Le

AI Engineer

Khanh Tran

NLP Engineer

Tai Le

Generative AI Engineer

Minh Pham

AI Prompt Engineer

Khanh Ly

Mobile App Developer

Anh Phan

QA Engineer

Huong Nguyen

Full Stack Developer

Lam Tran

DevOps Engineer

Mai Nguyen

Frontend Developer

Quan Phan

Business Intelligence Developer

Linh Hoang

Data Engineer

Viet Tran

Big Data Engineer

Hung Tran

Data Analyst

Tung Tran

Data Visualization Specialist

Vy Le

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hien Pham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Huy Phan

Platform Engineer

Huy Pham

DevOps Engineer

Kien Nguyen

Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Dung Pham

Technical Product Manager

Khanh Nguyen

UX/UI Designer

Hai Nguyen

Product Analyst

Tung Nguyen

Product Manager

Hoang Le

Associate Product Manager

Hai Nguyen

Machine Learning Engineer

Minh Le

AI Engineer

Khanh Tran

NLP Engineer

Tai Le

Generative AI Engineer

Minh Pham

AI Prompt Engineer

Khanh Ly

Mobile App Developer

Anh Phan

QA Engineer

Huong Nguyen

Full Stack Developer

Lam Tran

DevOps Engineer

Mai Nguyen

Frontend Developer

Quan Phan

Business Intelligence Developer

Linh Hoang

Data Engineer

Viet Tran

Big Data Engineer

Hung Tran

Data Analyst

Tung Tran

Data Visualization Specialist

Vy Le

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hien Pham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Huy Phan

Platform Engineer

Huy Pham

DevOps Engineer

Kien Nguyen

Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Dung Pham

Technical Product Manager

Khanh Nguyen

UX/UI Designer

Hai Nguyen

Product Analyst

Tung Nguyen

Product Manager

Hoang Le

Associate Product Manager

A machine learning specialist focusing on building predictive models and data-driven solutions. Skilled in supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation, and real-time deployment. Strong background in data preprocessing and feature engineering.

Python

Scikit-Learn

Keras

AWS SageMaker

+1,245 AI & Machine Learning Candidates

Senior Engineering Talent for a Fraction of the Cost

Stop choosing between quality and budget. That's not a race to the bottom. That's the Vietnam advantage.

✅ Available in all time zones — CET, PST, EST, AEDT

Basic Salary

Benefits, Tax & Fee

$US Dollar

Uncompromising Quality

Vetted from a pool of 10,000+ engineers. Less than 1% make the final cut. Every engineer passes a live coding screen, English assessment, and AI-skills test before you see their name.

Up to 77% Lower Cost

Reduce total engineering spend by up to 77% versus US hiring — without cutting corners on seniority, reliability, or output.

Hired in 2 Weeks. No Agency Markup.

From your first brief to your engineer's first commit in 14 days. No placement fees. No annual retainers. No surprises.

Why AppGenie?

Effortless Hiring Through Our Talent Pool

Access top-tier, cost-optimized developers and remote software engineers — fully supported from initial vetting to onboarding, HR, and long-term team management.

No CTO? No Problem.

CTO-as-a-Service for Founders Who Need Technical Leadership Without Equity Dilution

Most early-stage founders can't afford a $250K CTO. And giving away 2–5% equity to a technical co-founder isn't always the right call.

AppGenie's CTO-as-a-Service gives you a senior technical leader — someone who's scaled engineering orgs from 3 to 50 — embedded in your team on a flexible engagement. They define your architecture, hire your team, set your engineering culture, and report to you. No equity. No full-time salary. Just the expertise you need, when you need it.

Why Traditional Hiring Fails — and How AppGenie Solves It

Traditional Hiring Challenges

Endless candidate sourcing and screening

Time-consuming, overloaded recruitment processes

High turnover and repeated rehiring cycles

Rising costs for local, in-house tech talent

Start interviewing top candidates within 48 hours

Access the top 5% of rigorously vetted, interview-ready, and AI-powered developers

Achieve a 98% retention rate with highly skilled, U.S.-ready remote team members

Cut hiring costs while gaining talented, reliable professionals

From Brief to First Commit in 14 Days

A process built for speed — not for agencies to milk the clock.

Step 1

Tell Us What You're Building

Share your stack, your roadmap, your team size, and your budget. A real engineer on our team reads it — not a recruiter. We'll tell you what's realistic and what we'd recommend.

Step 2

Meet Your Shortlist in 48 Hours

Within 48 hours, you'll have 3–5 pre-screened candidates who've already passed our technical, language, and AI-proficiency assessments. Interview them yourself. Pick who you want.

Step 3

Trial Period. Zero Risk.

Start with a risk-free trial period. If the fit isn't right, we replace them — at no cost to you. Most clients don't use this. But knowing it exists changes how you hire.

Step 4

We Handle Everything Else

Payroll, compliance, benefits, equipment, HR, performance tracking — all handled. You manage the work. We manage the team.

Every Role. Every Seniority. One Partner.

From your first engineer to your 50th, we cover the full stack — and the full org chart.

Role

Full-stack Developers

Back-end Developers

Front-end Developers

DevOps Engineers

Data Scientists

Data Engineers

Mobile Developers

Developers

Seniority

Software Developers

Senior Engineers

Software Architects

Senior Software Architects

Software Tech Leads

Senior Software Tech Leads

Software Tech Lead Managers

Senior Software Tech Lead Managers

Director of Engineering

VP of Engineering

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Frequently Asked Questions

Still on the fence? These are the questions we hear every week.

What makes AppGenie different from a staffing agency or a freelancer marketplace?

Three things. First, our engineers are employees — office-based in Vietnam, not contractors working from their spare rooms. Second, every candidate is vetted on technical skill, English fluency, AND AI-tool proficiency before you see them. Third, we don't disappear after placement — we handle payroll, HR, retention, and performance support for the life of the engagement.

How long does it really take to hire someone?

Typically 2–3 weeks from first call to first commit. You'll see your shortlist within 48 hours of briefing us.

What does the 6-hour US Eastern overlap actually look like?

Vietnam is GMT+7. Your AppGenie engineers start their day at 8 AM local time. That maps to 8 PM–2 AM ET — which is why most clients run standups at 8–9 AM ET and have their Vietnam team online for the full US morning. No async lag on anything that matters.

Do you work with early-stage startups, or just large companies?

Both. Our smallest clients are two-person pre-seed teams who needed their first engineer. Our largest are enterprise teams at PwC, Coca-Cola, and Shinhan Bank. The vetting process is the same either way.

What's your retention rate, and why is it so high?

98%. The reason: our engineers work in physical offices with colleagues, receive full employment benefits, and have a clear career path. They're not isolated gig workers. When people feel like they belong somewhere, they stay.

What happens if an engineer isn't working out?

We replace them, free of charge, within our replacement guarantee window. It rarely happens — but when it does, we move fast.

Build the Right Team for Your Stage

Whether you're spinning up a new product or scaling an existing one, we cover the full engineering stack.

AI & Machine Learning

Ship AI features that actually work in production — not demos. Our ML engineers have real experience building LLM pipelines, RAG systems, and real-time inference. Not just Python notebooks.

DevOps & Infrastructure

Ship faster, break less. Our DevOps engineers design CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), and observability stacks that let your product team move at full speed.

Full-Stack Development

React, Next.js, Node, Python, Go. Our engineers pick up your existing codebase and contribute from week one — no ramp-up tax.

Data Engineering & Analytics

Clean data in. Reliable insights out. We build the pipelines, warehouses, and dashboards that turn raw events into decisions.

UX/UI Design

Engineers who can design, and designers who understand implementation constraints. Fast, opinionated, and user-tested.

Product Management

Senior PMs who've shipped products — not just managed tickets. From PRDs to roadmap prioritisation to stakeholder alignment.

CTO-as-a-Service

Technical leadership for founders who need architecture decisions, team-building, and investor credibility — without the equity cost of a full-time CTO.

What Clients Say

From pre-seed founders to enterprise CTOs.

The quality bar is genuinely different. AppGenie sent us a senior backend engineer who, by his second week, had refactored a core service our US team had been avoiding for a year. I'd hire ten more if I could.

Jim Schaefer

CEO @ RealReachMarketing LLC

I was skeptical about offshore engineering. Then our AppGenie ML engineer built an API security model that cut incidents by 37% in the first quarter. I'm not skeptical anymore.

Prof. Omaru

CEO @ Aiculus

The overlap hours work better than I expected. By the time I'm at my desk in New York, there's a full PR waiting for review. That's what 6 hours of ET overlap looks like in practice.

Keith Huang

CTO @ ABILITI CORP

Other hiring platforms send you a resume and wish you luck. AppGenie handled payroll, onboarding, HR, and compliance from day one. We literally had zero overhead.

Jason TS Cheong

Co-Founder @ Silico Data Services (Techstars)

70% of our engineering team will be AppGenie hires by next year. That's not a plan — that's what happened naturally because the quality is consistently that good.

Viet Nguyen

Founder & CEO @ Viotgroup

We modeled the cost difference. It's $143K per senior hire, per year. When I showed that number to our board, they asked why we hadn't done this sooner.

Ba Khai Tran

VP of Growth @ Y42 (Germany)

AppGenie isn't a vendor. They behave like an internal team that happens to be on the other side of the world. That's genuinely rare.

Nhat Doan

Tech Lead @ Amazon