IT Staff Augmentation Services for US & EU Engineering Teams

Staff augmentation places individual senior engineers inside your existing team — one role at a time, working under your engineering manager, your Jira, and your sprint cadence. A dedicated team is a full squad with its own delivery lead and EM, running rituals on our side. Augmentation is faster to ramp (two weeks vs four to six), better for filling a specific seniority gap, and natural when you already have product, design, and management capacity in-house. We move clients from augmentation to dedicated team as the engagement grows.

Standard ramp-up is two weeks from signed role brief to first commit. Day 1–2 we run the brief call and confirm must-haves. Day 3–7 we deliver a shortlist of three to five pre-vetted senior CVs. Day 8–10 you interview, optionally with a trial task at our cost. Day 11–14 we onboard the engineer into your Jira, repos, SSO, and standups. For urgent backfills against an existing role brief, we have placed engineers in seven business days from a bench match.

We staff senior-only engineers (seven years of experience minimum, ten on average) across backend (TypeScript/Node, Python/Django, .NET, Java, Go), frontend (React, Next.js, Vue), mobile (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), full-stack TypeScript, DevOps/SRE, data engineering, ML engineering, QA automation, and security engineering. We also place tech leads, solution architects, engineering managers, and embedded product managers. We do not bench juniors and we do not relabel mid-level engineers as senior — CVs are audited against real GitHub and reference checks.

We bill transparent hourly staff rates in USD, with no recruitment markup and no tool surcharges. Frontend, backend, mobile, QA, DevOps, design, analytics and project-management seats all start from $100 / hour and scale with seniority and stack scarcity. That single hourly rate covers the engineer, employer taxes, equipment, paid time off and benefits — there is no separate recruitment fee, no placement fee and no markup on tools. Invoicing is monthly per named seat; cloud runs on your own accounts, so you keep the cost lever. You see the rate before the first meeting and sign off before anyone starts.

You can request a replacement at any time with no penalty. We deliver a replacement shortlist within five business days from a pre-vetted bench in matching stacks, and we cover a two-week knowledge-transfer overlap so the outgoing engineer documents repos and runbooks before the new seat starts billing. Scale-down notice is thirty days per seat, no minimum team size, no exit fees. The first thirty days on every engagement carry a satisfaction guarantee — if the fit is wrong, the seat is not invoiced.

All IP transfers to you on creation under our master services agreement; every engineer signs individual IP assignment and NDA clauses before access. Contracts run through our EU entity, with EU data residency by default and US options on request. We are GDPR-aligned, ISO 27001 ready, HIPAA-capable for healthcare workloads, and SOC 2 Type II is in progress. CCPA notice obligations are acknowledged for US consumer data. Engineers work on managed endpoints with encrypted disks, SSO, MFA, and isolated repositories scoped to your projects only.

Our engineers work a CET business day (9 AM–6 PM Yerevan, which is CET+1). For US teams that translates to a 9 AM–1 PM ET daily overlap, five days a week — enough for daily standups, sprint ceremonies, and real-time collaboration on blockers. Engineers send end-of-day summaries and pick up async work outside the overlap window. For UK and Central European teams, the overlap is near-full-day. If your team works fully in Asia-Pacific hours, we discuss fit honestly before placing anyone.

We do not impose a contractual minimum beyond the 30-day notice period per seat. In practice, engagements shorter than three months rarely recoup the two-week onboarding cost for either side; if your need is genuinely short-term (a specific feature, a security audit, a go-live crunch), a fixed-scope project or dedicated team engagement with a defined end date may be a better fit. We will tell you honestly which model serves you better on the discovery call.

Yes, and we support that path. Our MSA includes a buyout clause: after six months of continuous augmentation in a seat, you may hire that engineer directly for a flat conversion fee agreed at contract start. Before six months, conversion is possible with a higher fee reflecting the shorter tenure. We prefer this over competing for the same engineer — a smooth handover keeps the product knowledge inside your organisation, which is better for everyone. Note that the engineer must independently agree; we do not place anyone under a no-poach clause without their knowledge.

Every engineer on our bench passes a three-stage vetting process before placement: a structured technical screen, reference checks against prior employers, and a criminal background check. For engagements requiring government-level security clearance (NV, SC, DV, or US TS/SCI), we do not currently staff cleared engineers — clearances are jurisdiction-specific and not transferable from Armenia to EU or US agencies. If your project requires clearance, we will tell you on the first call so you do not lose time.

Augmentation is intentionally flexible. If the stack changes (for example, from Node to Go), we work with you to assess whether the incumbent engineer can reskill within the project's runway or whether a seat swap makes more sense. If the scope expands, we add seats on the same 30-day notice cycle. If the brief narrows significantly, you scale down on 30 days' notice per seat with no exit fee. The only firm commitment is the notice period — everything else adapts to your product's reality.