# Welcome to Lemon.io

Lemon.io is a **curated tech talent marketplace** where startups and scaling companies find vetted senior developers to hire for remote work.

Based in New York and launched in 2015, Lemon.io serves as your end-to-end talent partner, streamlining every stage of the hiring process:

* Vetting;
* Matching with relevant candidates;
* Contracts;
* Payments;
* Collaboration monitoring;
* Replacement guarantee.

In contrast to traditional freelance platforms, Lemon.io sets a high bar for tech talent to enter its curated candidate pool. Lemon.io’s team vets tech and soft skills and conducts multi-source background checks of engineers.

Every engineer in Lemon.io’s community has passed a **4-stage vetting process**, and only 1.2% of applicants are accepted. The result is a curated pool of over 1,500 senior developers across 100+ tech stacks — including Python, React, and Typescript — available for part-time or full-time remote engagement.

### **Who Lemon.io is built for**

Lemon.io primarily serves startups and SMBs with small or no internal engineering teams in search of senior specialists to hire for roles such as [full-stack developer](https://lemon.io/hire/full-stack-developers/), [AI engineer](https://lemon.io/hire/ai-engineers/), [CTO](https://lemon.io/hire/cto/), [data engineer](https://lemon.io/hire/data-engineers/), and many others. 

Common use cases include:

* Building an MVP;
* Adding a specialist to an existing team;
* Replacing a contractor;
* Accelerating a specific feature sprint;
* Part-time or full-time outstaffing;
* Collaboration with fractional experts. 

Most clients are based in the US, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia.

| **Vetted developers pool** | 1,500+                                             |
| -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| **Tech stacks covered**    | 100+                                               |
| **Average time-to-hire**   | 1–2 weeks (matching clients and candidates in 24h) |


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