Services
Engineers who join your team, not ours.
One to three senior engineers reporting to your engineering manager and taking work from your backlog. Ramped in 10–15 business days, three-month minimum, no trial shorter than four weeks.
How augmentation works
Who reports to whom
The engineers sit in your stand-up, your review process, and your backlog, and your engineering manager sets their priorities. We hold the contract, the payroll, and the 30 days' notice. There is no account manager between you and the engineer, and no separate status report to read. Engineers here have a median of 9 years behind them, so the sensible use of one is the work your own team keeps deferring, not the tickets nobody else wants.
Ramp-up, and the four-week floor
Ramp-up is 10–15 business days from signature. We do not run trials shorter than four weeks: one engineer needs roughly that long to clear your onboarding and produce work worth judging, and anything shorter measures your onboarding rather than the engineer. English is B2+ for engineers and C1 for leads, assessed on the first call. The three-month minimum applies here as well: below that, you are paying mostly for the ramp.
When this stops being the right shape
Past three engineers, augmentation turns into a team without anyone accountable for it. At that point we propose a dedicated team of 2–6 with a named technical lead instead, on the same three-month minimum and the same notice period. The reverse happens too: an engagement that starts as three augmented engineers and shrinks to one is still on 30 days' notice, not on a penalty.
Where this has run
One augmentation engagement is written up in full, including the part where it stopped after two of six planned domains.
All four case studiesTell us what the gap is and who owns it.
One to three engineers on your backlog, under your engineering manager, with no account manager in between. Past three we propose a dedicated team instead.