Dedicated Engineering Pods: Embedded Directly in Your Codebase

After a short paid discovery (typically 1–3 weeks) you receive a fixed price with milestones. Predictable monthly rate per developer or pod; zero recruiter fees; 30-day flexible cancellation terms. Discovery is credited toward the build if you proceed.

Our typical onboarding timeline from signed agreement to active code commits is between five and ten business days. Because our engineers are pre-vetted senior professionals with extensive experience in modern technology stacks (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL), they do not require weeks of basic technical training. Once granted repository access and added to your Slack and project management channels, our engineers review your existing documentation, configure local environments, and typically submit their first minor pull request within their first three days to validate your continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

We maintain a mandatory minimum of four hours of daily live working overlap with your domestic engineering team's standard business hours (such as US Eastern, US Pacific, UK GMT, or Australian AEST). Our engineers participate actively in your morning standups, sprint planning ceremonies, and technical architecture reviews via Zoom or Google Meet. Throughout the working day, they communicate asynchronously and synchronously via Slack, Teams, or Jira, providing prompt responses and conducting real-time pair programming sessions whenever pairing is beneficial.

Our vetting process is rigorous and designed by former FAANG and enterprise engineering leaders. We evaluate fewer than three percent of applicant software engineers. Candidates undergo multi-stage technical assessments: live architectural design interviews, deep domain knowledge probing in TypeScript/PostgreSQL/Node.js, automated algorithmic evaluations, and practical repository code reviews where they must refactor real-world buggy applications and write comprehensive unit tests. We also rigorously evaluate English communication clarity, collaborative problem-solving skills, and autonomous proactive thinking.

You maintain complete product and architectural direction. Our dedicated engineers integrate directly into your sprint backlog in Jira, Linear, or GitHub Projects, taking tasks assigned by your Product Manager, Engineering Manager, or Technical Lead. For pods of three or more engineers, we provide an experienced Technical Pod Lead who assists with technical decomposition, ensures adherence to your architectural standards, conducts internal code pre-reviews, and tracks sprint velocity, removing administrative management burden from your domestic leadership.

While our precise skill matching results in a 98% placement success rate, we provide a zero-risk staffing guarantee. If you determine within the first two weeks that an engineer is not the ideal cultural or technical fit, we will replace them immediately without additional onboarding charges, or you may terminate the engagement with zero penalty. Your engineering velocity and team harmony are our highest priorities.

Yes. Unlike traditional staffing agencies that strictly prohibit direct hiring or demand punitive 30-40% buyout penalties, we offer transparent, enterprise-friendly contract-to-hire transition pathways. After a minimum continuous engagement period (typically 6 to 12 months), organizations may transition embedded engineers into direct full-time internal employees under fair, pre-negotiated conversion terms, allowing you to de-risk permanent hiring while maintaining complete team continuity.

Your organization maintains one hundred percent exclusive, unconditional ownership of all source code, design systems, architectural documentation, database schemas, and intellectual property from the very first keystroke. All commits are authored directly in your corporate GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories under your enterprise accounts. Our contracts include comprehensive intellectual property assignment clauses and mutual non-disclosure agreements protecting your trade secrets and proprietary data.

We enforce enterprise-grade security protocols across all dedicated personnel. Engineers work on secure, encrypted corporate machines configured with endpoint detection and response (EDR) software. Access to your systems is governed by your Single Sign-On (SSO) with mandatory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Engineers never copy production data to local development machines; instead, we utilize synthetic mocked databases or containerized staging seed scripts. All activities are auditable through your corporate version control and communication logs.

We operate on a transparent, predictable monthly rate per engineer or pod based on seniority and specialized technical domain expertise. There are zero upfront recruitment fees, zero placement markup, zero infrastructure surcharges, and zero hidden exit penalties. Engagements operate on flexible monthly agreements with standard 30-day notice terms, allowing you to scale engineering capacity up or down dynamically as product roadmap milestones and funding cycles dictate.

Ramping down or adjusting pod size is straightforward and seamless. With standard 30-day written notice, you can reduce pod headcount or pause the engagement entirely. Prior to departure, our engineers execute a structured knowledge transfer checklist: updating Architecture Decision Records, verifying that all pull requests are merged or documented, ensuring test suites are passing, and conducting recorded video walkthroughs for your remaining internal team so no institutional knowledge is lost.

Discovery starts within days of agreement. Builds run in weekly sprints with a demo every week.

You do, under a signed agreement — code, docs and accounts are handed over at the end.