Cortance is a marketplace — not a freelance platform — providing verified software engineers to startups and product companies that want to flexibly manage technical capacity as needed, without the direct hiring responsibilities or financial burden.
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How It Works
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Our Directions
We provide developers across any tech stack or domain
If you’re new to hourly rates and aren’t sure where to start, we suggest dividing your current or most recent monthly salary by 160 (the average number of work hours in a month) to get an approximate figure.
We’ll confirm your rate with you before offering any projects. This will be your default rate for projects on our platform, but you’ll have the option to adjust it up or down when considering a specific project.
How can I become a Cortance freelancer, and how long will it take?
After applying, the hiring process involves several assessment stages - CV screening, expectation alignment, and personal profile on the Cortance platform creation.
After all general check-ins on our side, there are a Communication & Character Assessment and a tech interview, which includes two parts: passing tricky technical assessments to evaluate both the breadth and depth of your expertise and Expert-Led Live Evaluation to showcase your ability to solve complex problems under pressure, communicate technical concepts clearly, and apply creative solutions to real-world scenarios. This comprehensive approach helps ensure a good fit.
When all the stages are passed, we start looking for a project for you. The project-seeking timeline can vary, but is typically around 1-2 weeks, depending on the candidate's skills and availability of relevant projects.
There may be some response delays if there is a high demand from other applicants or a lack of current project needs in the candidate's specific tech stack. But Cortance commits to providing feedback at each stage. The live evaluation is an important part of the assessment to gauge the candidate's real-world problem-solving and communication skills under pressure, but if we see that there are no projects related to your tech stack, Expert-Led Live Evaluation could be postponed and led when we see market demand.
Is there a minimum number of project involvement?
We're flexible with time commitments but recommend a minimum of 20 hours per week to maintain project momentum. Most clients choose either:
- Full-time (40 hours/week): Ideal for fast-moving projects and complete team integration;
- Part-time (20 hours/week): Perfect for ongoing development needs with balanced budgets.
Our goal is to match your project's pace and budget, not force you into a fixed box.
How do I apply to work on the project?
Once you pass our recruitment process and get access to the Cortance community, there are two options to apply to the project:
- to find experience-aligned opportunities in a platform and apply to it;
- to receive a personal experience-aligned opportunity invitation and confirm it.
If a match happens and either you and the client are happy with the proposal, you start working directly with the client using their communication channels.
What technologies do you work with?
We commonly have PHP and JavaScript-related languages, React Native, Flutter, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Python, RoR, Data Science, Java, C# related languages, C++, RUST, Web3, Golang, and DevOps on tap. But let us know what particular stack you are looking for and we will try to cover it.
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