I would look for an engineering services company. I think there is a lot of new developers on here thinking that CharGPT will earn the. A buck or two. If it’s for work you may want a consultant that can meet schedule and deliver properly architected code with unit and integration tests. Also, a pro will be able to do infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi).

Ask about coding standards

Ask about experience setting up CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar)

Should now how to setup tracing and logging (JSON formatting for ingestion)

Should know how to do Auth and RBAC if needed (Cognito/Auth0 CASBIN or others)

Understand how to work with Jira or other software management tools.

Knows how to do documentation in Markdown and diagrams in Mermaid.