Staff Augmentation Services
Add vetted senior engineers to your team, working in your stack and your sprint cadence. Frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, data and AI, interviewing within days and productive in weeks.
Extend your team with senior engineers
Staff augmentation adds vetted senior specialists to your existing team for exactly as long as you need them. They join your standups, use your tools and follow your process, reporting to your leads. We handle contracts, payroll and EU and GDPR compliance.
It pays off when the maths of permanent hiring does not: a roadmap that outgrew your headcount, a specialist skill you need for two quarters rather than two years, a deadline that cannot wait four to six months for a recruited hire, or a headcount freeze that budget for external capacity can route around.
- Senior specialists across the full stack, data and AI.
- Integrated into your process, reporting to your leads.
- Contracts, payroll and EU and GDPR compliance handled by us.
The process in five steps
- Brief: a 30-minute call on the roles, the stack, the team setup and the timeline. You get a realistic availability picture the same week.
- Shortlist: vetted candidates matched to the brief, usually within days. CVs are real profiles of available engineers, not bench marketing.
- Interviews: your process, your bar. You approve everyone before they start, and there is no fee for interviewing.
- Onboarding: contracts, equipment, access and compliance handled by us; the engineer joins your standup in week one.
- Delivery and scaling: regular check-ins on both sides, with the flexibility to add engineers for a push or scale down when priorities change.
Staff augmentation vs team augmentation vs outsourcing
The names get used interchangeably, but the models put responsibility in different places, and choosing the wrong one is the most common reason external engagements disappoint.
- Staff augmentation: individual engineers embedded in your team, under your management and process. You own delivery; we own the employment side. Best when you have strong leads and need capacity or a specific skill.
- Team augmentation: a cross-functional group, often with a lead, that takes a workstream inside your organisation. Shared delivery responsibility. Best when a whole area needs staffing at once.
- Project outsourcing: we own delivery of a defined scope end to end. Best for a bounded build where you want an outcome, not headcount.
For a deeper comparison with the trade-offs spelled out, see our guide to staff augmentation vs outsourcing on the blog, linked below.
Proof: embedded teams at enterprise scale
For T-Systems, our engineers run a ticket automation platform for the Managed Infrastructure Services division: eight engineers in two teams, built on the ServiceNow stack and deployed inside the client's EU compliance perimeter. The engagement is ongoing and has grown since the first placement, which is the pattern we aim for: start with the engineers you need now, and scale on evidence.
Roles available now
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Engineering
React, Node.js, Python, Java and .NET engineers who own features end to end in your codebase. Browse the hire pages below for role profiles.
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Platform and data
DevOps, cloud, data engineering and QA specialists who strengthen delivery and reliability.
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AI and ML
AI and ML engineers for teams building intelligent features, backed by production experience from our own builds.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can someone start?
You are usually interviewing candidates within days, and most engineers start two to four weeks after the brief.
Do augmented engineers work under our management?
Yes. They report to your leads and follow your process and priorities. We handle everything on the employment side.
How is staff augmentation different from outsourcing?
With staff augmentation you keep delivery ownership and add people to your own process. With outsourcing we own delivery of a defined scope. Many clients use both for different workstreams.
What if a specialist is not the right fit?
You interview and approve everyone before they start. If a fit issue does come up, we replace the engineer quickly at no extra cost.
Where are the engineers based?
In our European hubs, working in your timezone with real-time overlap and EU jurisdiction for contracts, IP and GDPR.
Add the capacity you need, fast
Tell us the roles and the timeline. We will shortlist senior engineers ready to integrate with your team.