Hire Python developersfor your team inSan Francisco

The median advertised salary for a senior Python engineer in San Francisco is about $213,100. With statutory employer costs (social security + medicare (fica), unemployment tax (futa + state), health cover (employer share, single)) the loaded cost is about $235,794 a year, before benefits, equipment and a 22.5% recruiter fee.

An Octogle senior engineer costs about $63,350 a year at our published hourly rate — about 73% less than a loaded San Francisco hire — with no placement fee, a 14-day replacement guarantee and two weeks' notice.

Latin America — Colombia and Mexico overlap almost all of a San Francisco working day, Brazil and Argentina most of it. Octogle matches engineers with at least 4–6 hours of overlap with your team.

US workers are W-2 employees or 1099 independent contractors depending on the IRS common-law test of behavioural control, financial control and the type of relationship, not on what the contract says. Misclassifying an employee leaves the company liable for back employment taxes, and from payments made in 2026 a 1099-NEC is needed only once a contractor is paid $2,000 or more in a year. A non-US engineer working entirely outside the US earns foreign-source income: it is not wages, is not subject to US withholding, and no 1099 is filed.

Hiring a software engineer locally typically takes around 44 days. Octogle shares a scored shortlist of 3–5 vetted Python engineers within 48 hours of your brief.

You'll receive 3–5 vetted candidate profiles within 48 hours of your demo call. Most companies go from first intro to signed contract in under 5 business days — compared to 6–12 weeks with traditional agencies.

Every developer passes a 5-stage process: application screening, stack-specific technical assessment, live system design interview, soft-skills evaluation, and reference checks. From over 25,000 applicants reviewed, only 1,000 have been accepted into our network.

OctogleHire engineers start at £15/hr (about $19), with senior engineers at about £24/hr. That is roughly 50–65% less than the loaded cost of an equivalent in-house hire in the UK, US or Australia — a senior UK hire costs about £48/hr once employer costs are included. There are no upfront fees or placement commissions; you pay one published hourly rate once your engineer starts.