Mobile
Hire PWA Developers
Engineers who use progressive web apps where they genuinely beat shipping a native binary.
A progressive web app earns its place when you want one deployable thing, instant updates and no store review, and the app can live within what the browser allows — internal tools, field forms, booking and ordering flows, anything a user reaches from a link rather than an app icon they searched for. It is the wrong answer when you need deep hardware access or reliable push on iOS.
When hiring, listen for honesty about platform limits. A candidate should be able to state exactly what iOS supports today, what background sync does and does not guarantee, and how they handle a user whose storage is evicted. Ask how they ship an update to a device already running an old service worker. Anyone who describes a PWA as equivalent to a native app has not maintained one.
What these engineers do
- Service workers and Workbox with a cache strategy chosen per route, not globally
- IndexedDB storage, background sync and queued writes that survive a closed tab
- Web app manifests, install prompts and installability on Android, Windows and desktop
- Web push, and clear-eyed handling of what iOS Safari still does not support
- Lighthouse plus field Core Web Vitals, measured on mid-range hardware
Delivered AI-first
AI assistance is used to generate service worker registration and caching strategies, IndexedDB wrappers, manifest and icon sets, and the offline fallback routes that are tedious to write by hand. Cache invalidation is reviewed carefully every time, because a service worker that serves stale assets will keep doing so on a user's device long after the fix has shipped. Review discipline is unchanged. The measurable effect is throughput per engineer, not fewer reviews.