Parvessh Agarwal
Founder & CEO
An entrepreneur at heart. He links business analysis, strategy, clear goals and ROI to practical technology.
LinkedIn →Hire Framer developers
who know when to reach for code.
A dedicated Framer developer, or a team, who builds inside Framer's visual canvas. When a part of the page needs logic the builder cannot handle, they switch to React and TypeScript code. They do not fight the tool or over-build a marketing page. Each developer is vetted on real Framer builds before they touch yours. They work inside your workspace and publishing routine, and you can scale up or down monthly without a hiring cycle. You interview the actual developer before anything is signed. On request, you can see their real Framer work under NDA.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
Tell us about the role
Start Your Enquiry
Send a short brief. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your itemised proposal.
What you get
Hiring a Framer developer through PixelCrayons gets you a vetted specialist who builds visually and codes when needed. They work inside your Framer workspace on CMS collections, custom code and animations tied to real actions, such as scrolling. A named coordinator backs them. You interview the actual developer first and scale the engagement monthly.
- Vetted on live Framer sitesEvery developer has shipped live Framer sites to our delivery standards, reviewed weekly.
- Cover for your workspace when someone is awayA named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second Framer developer named in advance.
- Working inside your teamYour Framer workspace, Figma files, Slack and stand-ups, working the way you already ship pages.
Our work
See what we've built
and the results it brought.
Real projects for real clients, with results we can show.
2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
via agency partner
Technologies we work with
- Commerce and web
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- WordPress
- Webflow
- Next.js
- Marketing
- Google Ads
- Meta Ads
- GA4
- Klaviyo
- Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- AI models
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- Build and deploy
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- CRM and automation
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Zapier
- n8n
Product names and marks are trademarks of their owners. Naming a technology means our teams build with it. It does not mean a partnership, certification or endorsement.
Monthly rate for this hire
From $2,400per month, 160 hoursSenior specialists from $4,000, quoted per person.
Direct prices for brands and companies buying for themselves.
What they cover
Framer skills
for a site your team can update.
A Framer expert who moves between the visual canvas and code on purpose. They can tell you which one your brief needs. They neither avoid the code editor nor ignore the canvas.
Core Framer building
- Framer's visual canvas, plus code overrides in React and TypeScript when a component needs real logic
- CMS collections for blog, case study and other templates fed by your content
- Layouts that work at every screen size in the builder, not a desktop mock-up with a mobile guess
- Interactions and animations tied to real actions: scrolling, hovering and page load
- Component variants and states built once and reused across pages, not redrawn each time
Code, tools and SEO
- Custom code components published to a shared library the rest of the team can reuse
- Forms, analytics and CRM connections added without breaking the builder's own updates
- SEO basics within Framer's limits: metadata, structured data and redirects
- Turning a Figma design into a live, published Framer site
- A safe publishing setup, so a marketer can change copy without a developer
Judgement and upkeep
- Spotting when a brief has outgrown Framer and needs custom React work, and saying so
- Working inside your marketing or founder team's existing workspace rather than rebuilding it
- Quick rounds of changes, matched to how early-stage marketing sites really get briefed
- Documentation that lets a non-developer look after the site day to day
- Clear reports tied to what went live
In practice
What a Framer developer
ships in a working week.
The practical side of the role: the routine, the interview, the setup, and how it fits with your designer.
Pages, components and small fixes
A typical week mixes new pages with upkeep. They build a landing page from a Figma file. They turn repeated sections into components with variants, so the next page comes together faster. They add fields to a CMS collection when marketing needs a new content type. They fix a layout that breaks at one tablet width and tune an animation that feels slow. They connect a form to your CRM. Before publishing, they check metadata, redirects and page speed. Good Framer developers spend more time in the canvas than in code. They can explain every override they wrote.
Questions that separate strong candidates
Ask them to share a live Framer site and walk you through its component library. A strong developer shows you variants, shared styles and how a marketer edits a page without breaking it. Ask when they last chose a code override over the canvas, and what it did. Good answers are specific. Think of a pricing toggle, a filter on a CMS list, or a third-party embed that needed wrapping. Ask how they handle redirects when a page moves. Be cautious if every example leans on heavy custom code. Be cautious too if they cannot explain how a site's CMS is set up.
Set up before the first session
Invite them to the Framer workspace with the right role, not a shared login. Share the Figma files that hold the design system and the pages in progress. Agree who can publish to the live domain, and whether changes go through a staging page first. List the tools the site depends on: analytics, forms, CRM, cookie consent and chat. Tell them which pages bring in leads, so they treat those with extra care. If you use brand fonts, check the licence covers web use. And name the person who approves design, so small questions do not stall.
Working alongside your designer
The move from Figma is where most Framer builds gain or lose time. Ask your designer to use auto layout and named styles. Those carry over almost directly into Framer stacks and colour styles. The developer should raise questions about screen sizes and hover states early, not after the build. Agree who owns what once the site is live. Usually the designer owns the look and the developer owns components and connections. Marketing edits copy and CMS entries. When the designer changes a shared component, the developer updates it once in Framer, not page by page.
How it works
How hiring works,
from brief to first day.
Start
Brief and a call
We sign an NDA and talk through your site, your workspace and the gap you need filled.
Once the brief is complete
Proposal and interview
We confirm when your proposal will arrive and put forward the developer whose Framer work fits. You interview them before anything is signed. If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else.
Your decision
You sign off
You confirm the scope, the payment and the access we need. Nothing starts before this.
Typically 2 to 3 business days later
The developer starts
You grant workspace access. They review your CMS collections and component library and join your publishing routine.
Every month
Scale up or down
Add a second developer before a launch or a redesign. Step down once it ships. You can resize monthly, so a launch push never becomes a hiring decision.
You make requests, give approvals and see the weekly review in your Prism workspace. Each decision is written down with the result it was meant to bring. See how Prism runs the work →
Get a Proposal
Meet the people who will do the work before you sign
Why through us
Why hire through us:
the developer and the publishing checks behind them.
Hiring a Framer website developer gets you their build speed. Hiring through a company that delivers this work every day keeps your component library documented. That holds even when the person who built it is on leave.
Vetted on live Framer sites
Every developer in our team has shipped live Framer sites before yours. That work met our own delivery standards. It was reviewed weekly and held to the same publishing standard you will see. An interview does not show whether someone over-codes a marketing page. The Framer sites they have shipped do, so we ask to see those.
Cover for your workspace when someone is away
Your developer comes with a named coordinator, an escalation contact and a second Framer developer, named in advance. The second developer is briefed on your workspace from day one. They follow the component notes and override log the first one keeps. If the first developer is on leave or moves on, the second steps in without a slow start. You get a person and the publishing support behind them.
Working inside your team
Your Framer workspace, your Figma files, your Slack, your stand-ups. Dedicated means working the way you already brief and ship pages. You do not get files from an outside tool that need translating back in.
Code decisions you can check
Every choice to use a code override instead of the visual canvas is logged with the reason. A weekly written update ties the work to what is actually published. If a component ever looks over-built, the notes show why it needed to be.
Side by side
Hiring on your own,
compared with hiring through us.
An in-house hire is still right when your marketing site is a permanent, full-time and central job. We will say so when it is. This page is for every other case.
| Hiring it yourself | Through PixelCrayons | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a productive developer | A full recruiting cycle: finding skills on a newer platform takes longer than for a mainstream one | Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. The workspace and component audit starts in week one |
| Vetting | Portfolio review and interviews: their judgement shows up later, mid-project | A track record on real Framer builds, held to our own standards and reviewed weekly |
| Management work | All yours: goals, reviews, growth and cover | A named PM and escalation path are included; you set publishing priorities, not the admin |
| Scaling | A new hiring cycle each way: months to grow, severance to shrink | Resize monthly: add a developer for a launch, step down once it ships |
| Risk when it doesn't work | A wrong hire either over-codes a marketing page or pushes the builder past what it is for | If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else; the workspace and component notes pass on with the handover |
Who is accountable
The people responsible
for your work.
Saundaraya Gupta
Technical Manager
Brings technical work, client updates and project management together, so work moves smoothly from brief to launch.
LinkedIn →Every engagement
A named coordinator and escalation contact
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Time-zone overlap
At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsClear IP & Ownership Terms
Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsClear Delivery & Escalation Ownership
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsWhy not just hire a freelancer?
A freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
How does time-zone overlap work?
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
Can we try you before we commit?
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. Stop within it and eligible trial hours are free; continue and they're billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work stays ours. Project work and other roles get a paid pilot with scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed first.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.
How we vet
How we vet a Framer developer
and what to ask them.
Judgement on a Framer build shows up mid-project. So our vetting looks at a live site's component library and the overrides behind it. It also checks whether a marketer can edit the site safely.
- 01Shortlist on real Framer buildsWe put forward the developer whose Framer work fits your site, workspace and gap. That work met our own standards and was reviewed weekly. No generic CVs.
- 02Interview on a live siteAsk them to share a live Framer site and walk through its component library. A strong developer shows you variants, shared styles and how a marketer edits a page without breaking it. Be cautious if they cannot explain how the site's CMS is set up.
- 03Ask about their last code overrideAsk when they last chose an override over the canvas, and what it did. Good answers are specific: a pricing toggle, a filter on a CMS list, a third-party embed that needed wrapping. Ask how they handle redirects when a page moves.
- 04First month: inside your workspaceOnce started, they review your pages, CMS collections and component library and write a summary. Then they join your publishing routine. If a brief outgrows Framer, they say so rather than stretch an override. If the fit is wrong, we propose someone else.
Questions
Frequently
asked.
Eligible work can typically start two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm when your proposal will arrive. You interview the proposed developer before anything is signed. If your component library or CMS collections are messy, the first sessions include some tidying alongside new pages.
It is short and runs in order. First an NDA, then workspace and Figma access. Next, they review your current pages, CMS collections and component library and write up what they found. You agree the first month's priorities before anything changes. They join your publishing routine from week one, so they learn your site inside your process, not beside it.
A React developer builds a custom-coded app from scratch, with full control over how it is built. A Framer developer works inside Framer's visual builder. They use code only where the canvas cannot do something. So the site stays fast to build and easy for marketers to edit. For a marketing or landing site, this is the right role. For a full app, ask about the React role.
We tell you, rather than stretching a code override past what it should carry. Framer is built for marketing and content sites, not full app logic. If a brief needs user logins, complex state or a real backend, the honest answer is a custom-coded build. We will scope that instead.
Tell us early and we will propose another Framer developer, with no negotiation needed. The new developer gets the first one's component decisions, override notes and open questions. So a switch costs days, not a restart. The proposal names the second Framer developer who would cover your site. It also says whether that cover is in the monthly rate.
The developer designs interactions and animations tied to real actions. They also turn a Figma file into a live Framer site. The visual design itself usually comes from your designer as that Figma file. If there is no design yet, say so in the brief. We will tell you whether you need a designer too.
Interview your Framer developer
before you sign anything.
Tell us about your site and workspace, and meet the actual developer before anything is signed. If you really need full custom code rather than a Framer build, we will say so on the first call.
Interview before signing · Scale monthly
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