Software Development Staff Augmentation
Add vetted software engineers to your team in 3 days. They drop into your repo in week one.
Software development staff augmentation built for engineering leaders. We send senior LATAM developers who can read your codebase, follow your conventions, and ship in their first sprint.
3000+
Engineers in our network
3 days*
To first shortlist
5%
Of applicants pass vetting
30 day
Replacement guarantee
* For common roles like full-stack. Other roles typically take 7 to 10 days.
What it is
Software development staff augmentation, without the body-shop framing
Software development staff augmentation means embedding vetted external engineers into your existing dev team. They use your tools, follow your tech lead's direction, and ship to your codebase. The augmentation company employs the engineers and handles sourcing, vetting, payroll, and accountability. You handle the work.
The model fits engineering teams that already have a working setup (CI, code review, sprint cadence, on-call, the basics) and just need more shipping capacity. If your team is missing those things, augmentation is a force multiplier in the wrong direction. Look at dedicated squads instead.
Who this is for
Engineering leaders
Delivery pressure is up and the hiring funnel can't keep pace. You need vetted senior engineers in days, not 90-day cycles, without lowering the bar.Post-funding startups
Senior engineers without paying Bay Area salaries on every line of the roadmap. Stretches the runway without slowing the velocity you raised the round to fund.Mid-market product companies
Adding specific skills (a backend specialist, a mobile engineer, a DevOps lead) without disrupting the org or pushing through formal headcount approvals.Agencies with overflow
Client work that needs trusted extra capacity. Senior engineers who can drop into your delivery process without rebuilding handoffs from scratch.
Who this is not for
Founders looking for a CTO
Augmented engineers don't define product strategy or tech vision. Hire a CTO first, then add engineers under their direction.Companies with no in-house engineering process
If there's no tech lead and no review process, more engineers will make things worse, not better. Build the process first, then scale capacity.Anyone shopping on price alone
Staff augmentation is cheaper than US in-house, but it's not the cheapest option on the global market. The cheapest option is also the most expensive one in 6 months.
What you get
The full package, not just a profile
Every engineer comes with vetting, employment, accountability, and the ability to scale without rebuilding your hiring funnel.
Senior engineers, not warm bodies
Every engineer we place has been through five rounds of vetting: technical depth, English, AI tool fluency, ownership, and cultural alignment. We don't bench-warm.
Drop into your repo in week one
Engineers ship something useful in their first sprint. We brief them on your stack, repo conventions, and team norms before they meet you, not after.
30-day replacement guarantee
If the engineer isn't a fit, we replace them at no cost in the first 30 days. After 30 days we still help, just on normal notice.
Account contact who actually engineers
Your account contact has a technical background. They run monthly check-ins, escalate fast, and don't ask you to fill out NPS surveys.
Scale with your roadmap
Add engineers when you need a feature shipped, scale back after. Month-to-month after a 2-week trial. No awkward exit clauses.
Same-timezone collaboration
LATAM developers overlap 4 to 8 hours with US business hours. Real standups, live PR reviews, real-time pairing. No 18-hour async loops.
FAQ
Software development staff augmentation: FAQs
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