Engineering you can hold accountable.
We are a team of elite software developers, designers, project managers, and quality assurance testers who live and work in the United States and Canada, deployed on some of the nation's most sophisticated software initiatives. TopDevz owns its own suite of products, from recruiting technology to day-to-day operations management, and pairs them with fixed pricing and PULSE so clients see exactly what they're paying for, in real time.
How an engineer earns the TopDevz badge
The TopDevz Academy is where we vet, progress, mature, mentor, train, and improve people. Candidates are ranked against a pool of 15,643 peers. Most don't make it. The ones who do average 10+ years in complex production environments, and 56% of our engineers were referred by another TopDevz engineer.
Personality & soft skills
A series of personality tests plus a soft-skills interview, because consulting means explaining decisions to executives, not just writing code.
Live coding, no scripts
A complex technical interview including live coding with a senior TopDevz engineer watching how they think, not just what they type.
AI-assisted selection
A proprietary AI algorithm we developed removes bias from the hiring process: selection on evidence, not pedigree.
Measured forever
Vetting never stops: PULSE scores 400+ delivery data points on every engagement, every week, for as long as they're a TopDevz.
We let our numbers do the talking
Awards & recognition
Three principles, no exceptions
Transparency is a feature
If a client can't see budget, velocity, and scope status in real time, the vendor is hiding something, usually unintentionally, occasionally not. PULSE exists so neither happens to you.
Seniority is the product
AI made average code free. What's scarce is judgment: knowing what not to build, what will break at scale, and what an auditor will flag. That's what you're buying.
Fixed prices keep us honest
Hourly billing rewards slow work. Fixed pricing puts the risk where it belongs (on us) and makes our incentives identical to yours: ship it right, the first time.
Sacramento
1400 S Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
Toronto
100 King St W
Toronto, ON M5X 1E3
Meet the engineers
before you sign anything.
A 20-minute call with a senior engineer: what your project needs, what it should cost, and whether we're the right fit.