Security & confidentiality

Security for a development engagement comes down to a few practical questions: who can see your code and data, what are they allowed to do with it, who owns the result, and what happens when the work ends. We answer each of those deliberately rather than leaving them to chance. The principles below describe how we operate by default; for an engagement with specific requirements, we will agree the exact controls in writing before any work begins.

Before you share a schema, a database, source code, or anything else sensitive, we are happy to sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement. You are welcome to use your own NDA, or we can provide one. Beyond the NDA, every developer we place works under confidentiality obligations as a condition of the engagement, so the protection follows the person doing the work, not just the company.

• Sign first, share second. We can have an NDA in place before our first technical conversation if you prefer.
• The same confidentiality terms apply to the confidential business information and data you share with us, subject to the confidentiality terms in our Terms of Services.
• Confidentiality obligations continue after the engagement ends, not just while a developer is active on your project.

We assign intellectual property in the code, designs, and deliverables to you in writing, with ownership transferring on payment and excluding any pre-existing tools, libraries, or platform components. Work we build specifically for you is not reused for another client, and nothing critical is left trapped behind us. Because infrastructure is set up under your own ownership wherever possible, you are not left in a position where walking away means losing access to your own product.

• Your accounts, your cloud. We set up infrastructure under your own ownership wherever possible (your AWS, your repositories, your domains) so you hold the master keys and can revoke any access at any time.
• Least privilege. Developers are given only the access a task genuinely needs, scoped per project, and that access can be revoked the moment an engagement changes or ends.
• Strong authentication. We design for modern auth from the start, recommend and enable multi-factor authentication where access allows, and advise the right level for your risk.
• Secrets stay secret. Credentials and keys are kept in environment variables or secret managers wherever the project allows, and we avoid hard-coding or sharing them in plain text.
• Separate environments. Where the project supports it, we keep development, staging, and production separated so experimental work is kept away from live data and live users.

Security is something we build in as we go, not a step bolted on at the end. In practice that means:

• Code review. Changes go through review rather than landing unchecked, which catches both bugs and risky patterns early.
• Input validation and safe queries. User input is validated at the boundaries and database access uses parameterised queries, to reduce the risk of injection and similar classes of bug.
• Dependency hygiene. We prefer well-maintained libraries, keep an eye on known vulnerabilities, and avoid pulling in unnecessary third-party code.
• Version control and history. Everything lives in your version control with a clear history, so you can see exactly what changed, when, and by whom.
• Sensible defaults. HTTPS, hashed credentials, and authorization checks on protected routes are treated as table stakes, not optional extras.

For projects that touch personal, financial, or legal data, we work to a simple principle: collect and expose the minimum necessary. We avoid copying production data unless you explicitly approve it, use test and demo data during the build wherever possible, and keep communication about sensitive material on channels you control. If you have specific compliance requirements, tell us early and we will scope the work around them.

When real data does need to be handled, we treat it with care: access is limited to who needs it, it is not moved onto personal machines or third-party tools without your say-so, and it stays within the infrastructure you own. We are also glad to work within data-handling rules your own clients or regulators impose on you.

Security does not end when the work does. Because access is granted through your own accounts, you can revoke a developer's access at any time, immediately, without going through us. When an engagement wraps up, we help you do a clean handover: confirm everything is in your repositories and your infrastructure, walk through what was built, and make sure no credentials or access remain that should not. Confidentiality obligations continue to apply after the engagement has ended.

The first line of security is who you let near your systems. Every developer in the Codersera network passes a multi-stage screen covering communication, technical depth, a live exercise, and real project work, so by the time someone is on your build they have already been tested for both skill and professionalism. We draw from a network of more than 5,000 vetted engineers across 60+ countries, screened from over 60,000 applications, and you still interview and approve your specific developer before anything starts.

You can read more about the screening and the trial on our risk-free trial page, and about the overall engagement on how an engagement works.

We build with common data-protection expectations in mind, including the principles behind regulations such as GDPR and CCPA: collect only what is needed, keep it secure, and be able to delete it. We do not currently advertise formal certifications such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and we will not claim one we do not hold. If your project requires a specific certification, audit, or contractual control, tell us and we will be straight with you about what we can and cannot commit to, and scope the engagement accordingly.