ServicesStaff Augmentation

Senior engineers, added to your team.

When your roadmap is clear and you need more senior hands, our engineers join your team directly. They work in your repositories, attend your standups and report to your leads, backed by Otorithm for vetting, onboarding, replacement and ongoing quality checks.

Extend

Roles we place

Backend engineers

Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, Go and Python engineers for APIs, services and integrations.

Frontend and mobile engineers

React, Next.js, React Native and Flutter engineers who care about performance and accessibility.

AI and ML engineers

Specialists in LLM applications, retrieval, agents, evals and MLOps.

Data engineers

Pipelines, streaming, warehouses and analytics engineering.

Platform and DevOps engineers

Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability.

Engineering and delivery leads

Tech leads and engagement managers who can run a team within yours.

How it runs

From first week to handover.

Durations are typical. We agree the actual plan with you during scoping.

01

Brief

Day 1

A call to agree role, stack, seniority, time-zone overlap and how the engineer will work with your team.

02

Shortlist

Within a week

Profiles of vetted engineers who match the brief, with notes from our technical interviews.

03

Interview

Your process

You interview and choose. We arrange scheduling around your team.

04

Onboard and review

Ongoing

A structured onboarding, then a monthly check-in with you from our engagement lead.

AI in the loop

What you get beyond a CV

AI-fluent by default

Our engineers are trained to work with coding agents and AI tools, within the policies you set.

Vetted on real work

Every engineer passes a hands-on coding exercise, a system design round and a communication assessment.

Backed by a practice

Engineers can draw on our practice leads for architecture questions and code review.

Covered if the fit is wrong

If an engineer is not the right fit, we propose a replacement and cover the handover.

Terms in brief

  • Monthly billing per engineer, without long lock-ins
  • All IP assigned to you in the contract
  • Confidentiality and non-solicitation terms
  • Working-hour overlap agreed per role
  • A named engagement lead for escalation

Ways to engage

Team extension

Monthly, per engineer

Senior engineers who join your team, work to your plan and report to your leads.

Forward-deployed pod

Monthly

A small senior team embedded in your business that owns an outcome end to end.

All engagement models

FAQ

Questions we hear.

How quickly can someone start?

Typically two to four weeks from the brief, depending on seniority and your interview process.

Can we hire an engineer permanently?

Yes, after an agreed minimum period, with a conversion fee set in the contract.

What time zones do your engineers cover?

Our engineers work from India. They overlap most of the working day with Europe and keep agreed overlap hours with North America, typically three to four hours.

Do engineers use AI tools on our code?

Only the tools your policies allow. We agree an AI usage policy for each engagement before work starts.

What are we building?

Tell us about the problem. An engineer, not a sales team, will reply.

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