You can hire one senior developer, add a few engineers to your own team, get a dedicated team with its own lead, or hand us a project with a fixed scope. Below you can pick the model that fits, see the stacks we cover, and read what happens between the first call and the first merged pull request.
Which way of working with us fits your situation?
What separates the four models is who directs the work and who answers for the result. Location and contract length matter less.
Hire one developer. You have a team, a backlog and someone who reviews code. One role is open, say a senior React engineer for a frontend that is behind. The developer joins your standups and takes tickets from your board.
Extend your team. You need several people, often with mixed skills, inside one squad. This is IT staff augmentation: your tech lead directs the work, and we handle sourcing, contracts, payroll, equipment and replacement.
Get a dedicated team. You have a product owner but no spare engineering lead, or you want a separate stream built without managing engineers day to day. A dedicated development team comes with its own lead, plans sprints with your product owner and answers for delivery.
Hand over a project. The scope is defined and sits outside your core product, like a marketing site or a CMS migration. We agree scope, timeline and acceptance criteria and deliver it as a project. Our development services describe what we build this way.
What you need, which model, where to start
| What you need | Model | Where to start |
|---|---|---|
| One missing skill in a team that already has a lead | Hire one developer | The hire page for that stack, listed below |
| Several seats filled before a fixed date | Team extension | IT staff augmentation |
| A product or stream built without daily management on your side | Dedicated team | Dedicated development team |
| A defined project with a deadline and acceptance criteria | Project delivery | Development services |
| Testing capacity for your release process | QA engineer or QA team | Dedicated QA team |
| You are not sure yet | A short call | We help you pick the model before any contract |
Which roles and stacks can you hire?
We place engineers in the stacks we use on our own client projects. Each hire hub covers what we vet for in that stack and what the first weeks look like.
- Headless CMS developers for Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, Payload, Storyblok and other platforms: content models, migrations, editor workflows. See headless CMS developers. Still choosing a platform? Our headless CMS platforms directory compares them by need, and a headless CMS agency engagement covers the whole replatform when you would rather hand it over.
- Frontend developers for Next.js, Vue, Angular, TypeScript and CSS work on product frontends and marketing sites: frontend developers for hire.
- React developers for component libraries, complex state management and dashboards: React engineers.
- Backend developers for APIs, integrations and services on Node.js, NestJS, Python and Go: backend developers.
- Mobile developers for iOS and Android apps built with React Native or Ionic: mobile app developers.
- Designers for UI, UX, product and Figma work, often next to a design system: designers for hire. When the system itself needs building, our design system agency ships it in code.
- AI developers for LLM features and ML pipelines inside existing products: AI developers.
- DevOps engineers for CI/CD, AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure, and observability: DevOps engineers.
- QA engineers for manual and automated testing, or a dedicated QA team when testing needs its own lead.
The full directory of stacks is further down this page. If yours is missing, ask anyway. When we do not have the right people we say so, because a weak match costs you more than a late one.
How we vet engineers
A CV with the right keywords gets a candidate to the first conversation and no further. Then come four checks:
- Stack interview. Candidates explain decisions that belong to that platform. For Next.js, that means when a route should be static or rendered per request. For a headless CMS, it means how a content model handles references and localisation. For Node.js, it means how a service deals with retries and failures.
- Code review. They read real code and say what they would change. It shows judgement faster than a coding puzzle.
- Project walk-through. They walk us through a project they shipped: what they owned, what went wrong, what they would do differently.
- Communication. They explain a technical trade-off in English to someone who is not an engineer. Your product people will be talking to them too.
Then we match against your brief. For each seat we screen for the patterns in your codebase: the state management library, the CMS, the database conventions. You still interview every candidate yourself and you decide who joins.
How a start works
- Brief call. You tell us what the team builds, which stack it uses and where the gap is. A short call with your tech lead is usually enough.
- Role profile. We turn the brief into a profile per seat: stack, seniority, domain and the hours that must overlap with your team.
- Shortlist and interviews. We send matching candidates from our bench. Your team interviews them.
- Contract. NDA, IP assignment, overlap window, notice and replacement terms are agreed before anyone starts.
- Onboarding. The engineers get access to your accounts and go through a short technical onboarding run by your lead, ideally with pairing in the first sprint.
Speed depends on the role and on whether a matching engineer is already on our bench; we confirm a start date after the intro call. In one engagement, a US-based Series-B B2B SaaS scale-up needed five engineers before a contractual launch date. The gap of 5 seats was closed within 10 business days, and the client’s own tracking put the median time from onboarding to first merged PR at about two days. The full story is in the B2B SaaS team extension case study.
Our delivery team works from Ukraine and Europe. Here is how a dedicated team in Ukraine works in practice. For US clients we agree a daily overlap window during the brief and match engineers who can keep it.
What hiring through us costs
For senior engineers in the stacks above, hourly rates usually fall in the $50 to $150 per hour band. Where a seat lands in that band depends on seniority, how rare the stack is, how many hours must overlap with your day, the contract length and the number of seats. The rate covers payroll, taxes, equipment, HR support and replacement.
A dedicated team or a project is priced after we scope it with you, since the mix of roles moves the total more than any single rate. When you compare vendors, check what each rate includes. A cheaper rate without replacement can end up costing more.
