Senior IoT development talent and rates in SaaS Companies
Senior IoT development engineers serving SaaS companies run roughly $125–$180/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Stripe Billing + Auth0/WorkOS + Segment + Snowflake + Datadog — common integrations: Stripe + Stripe Tax + Stripe Billing, Segment + Rudderstack + Snowflake, Auth0 + WorkOS for SSO/SCIM. Standard mobile data flows tuned to this industry's compliance + integration realities.
What IoT development actually requires in 2026
2026 stack: Embedded — Zephyr RTOS, FreeRTOS, ESP-IDF for ESP32, Arduino for prototypes. Connectivity: LTE-M, NB-IoT, LoRaWAN, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi 6/7. Cloud: AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, Particle, Golioth. Mobile: BLE-bridge apps in React Native or Swift/Kotlin. IoT engineers must be polyglot: C/C++ for firmware, JavaScript/Swift/Kotlin for mobile, Python/Node for cloud, plus electrical engineering literacy. The market for senior firmware-to-cloud engineers is small (<5,000 globally) and rates reflect it.