✦ SvelteKit-specific recruitment
A SvelteKit developer ships pages, not just components. Routing, server functions, hooks, deployment. We match you with engineers who have done it in production, not on a side project.
48hrs
to first profiles
$0
upfront cost
Full-stack
vetted, not just UI
✦ The reality
Plenty of devs have used Svelte for a side project. Far fewer have wired up routing, written server load functions, configured an adapter, and deployed it under real load. That gap is what burns hiring teams.
"We hired someone with 'Svelte' on their resume and learned on day three they had never touched +page.server.ts."
CTO — early-stage startup
"Three weeks of interviews and not one candidate could explain when to use a load function vs. a remote function."
Engineering manager — SaaS
"Adapter knowledge is what we needed. Our app runs on Cloudflare Workers, and generic Svelte experience doesn't cover that."
Founder — infra startup
✦ What a SvelteKit developer actually does
Svelte is the component layer. SvelteKit is everything around it: routing, SSR, data loading, forms, hooks, deployment. Hiring for one and expecting the other is the most common mistake we see.
Svelte
Component layer
SvelteKit
Full-stack framework
✦ How we vet
Route groups, dynamic params, layouts. Load functions vs. remote functions, form actions, invalidation. And knowing when to reach for +server.
handle, handleFetch, handleError. Session patterns, query scoping across workspaces, and why auth checks belong in +page.server.ts (not the layout).
Stripe webhook signature verification and idempotency, retry-safe handlers, scheduled jobs and reminders, dead-letter handling.
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Node, static, VPS + Docker. Edge runtime constraints, platform bindings, environment variables, zero-downtime deploys.
✦ How it works
Adapter, deployment target, backend, seniority, location. Two minutes.
SvelteKit engineers vetted on routing, server functions, hooks, and your specific adapter. Not just Svelte syntax.
No retainers. No upfront fees. Placement fee only on a successful hire.
✦ For companies
Tell us about the role and your stack. We'll get back within 48 hours.
✦ Common questions
If you already have a backend and only need someone to build UI components, a Svelte developer is enough. If you need someone who can ship full pages (routing, server functions, hooks, adapters, deployment), that's a SvelteKit developer. Most production apps need the latter.
We test for routing patterns, load vs. remote functions, form actions, hooks (handle, handleFetch, handleError), session and multi-tenant scoping, webhook signature verification and idempotency, background jobs, and deployment adapters. Not just component syntax.
Cloudflare Workers and Pages, Vercel, Node, the static adapter, and self-hosted on a VPS (Docker, Caddy, zero-downtime deploys). If your stack is Cloudflare Workers + D1 + R2, or VPS + Postgres + Docker, we'll match someone who has shipped exactly that, not just someone who has deployed to Vercel.
Sometimes. But the things that bite are SvelteKit-specific: load function chaining, when to use +page.server.ts vs +server.ts, remote functions, and adapter quirks. If you're hiring for a live SvelteKit codebase, ramp time is real.
Mid-level (1–2 years SvelteKit, comfortable with routing and server functions), senior (production SvelteKit at scale, adapter expertise, performance work), and tech lead (architecture decisions across SvelteKit + backend + deployment).
First profiles within 48 hours. SvelteKit-specific roles take a bit longer to match than generic Svelte UI roles because the requirement set is wider. We won't send you a Svelte-only frontend dev when you need someone who can ship the whole stack.
✦ Hiring more broadly?
If your role is component-focused, like a UI engineer joining an existing backend team, start on the hire Svelte developers page instead.