Dedicated Development Teams

A senior engineer who works your hours and answers to you directly — not a staffing pool with an account manager in between.

Dedicated Development Teams — product screenshot

Deciding between hiring and augmenting

01

The engineering lead deciding between hiring and augmenting.

Hiring takes too long, or isn't headcount you can justify for a 3–6 month need.

02

The team wary of offshore augmentation.

Past experience: lost quality control, 24-hour review round trips, an account manager between you and the actual work.

03

The CTO who needs EU-hours overlap and GDPR-native infrastructure.

Not as a policy page — by jurisdiction, because the team is in Porto.

What's included, what stays yours to direct

Included

  • A named senior engineer, matched to your stack
  • Direct daily communication with you, no account-manager layer
  • EU business-hours overlap (Mon–Fri, 08:00–18:00 WET/WEST)
  • Integration into your existing tools, standups and process

Excluded

  • Project management or product ownership (you direct the work)
  • Fixed weekly hour caps — engagement terms are agreed and documented per contract

How the engineer integrates

  1. Scoping call

    We understand your stack, your team's process, and the specific gap.

  2. Matching

    We assign the engineer whose background actually fits — not whoever is next available.

  3. Integration (week one)

    The engineer joins your standups, your tools, your codebase — working as your team, not alongside it.

  4. Ongoing delivery

    Direct daily contact with you. No status-report layer.

  5. Review & scale

    At the 3-month mark, extend, adjust scope, or scale to a Squad if the need has grown.

One engineer, or a full squad

Entry

Dedicated Engineer

A single senior engineer, matched to your stack, working your hours.

€6,500/month

Ex. VAT, billed monthly. 3-month minimum.

3-month minimum

  • A named senior engineer
  • EU business-hours overlap

Squad (3 engineers + lead)

Bespoke scope for larger workstreams that need a coordinated team.

On request

Price on request.

Scoped in discovery

  • 3 engineers + a lead

Your stack, not ours

Tech stack

  • Matched to your existing stack
  • TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go
  • Standard cloud infrastructure

Deliverables

  • A dedicated engineer integrated into your sprint cycle
  • Direct Slack/tool access
  • A monthly summary of delivered work for your own reporting, on request

What teams ask before signing

01 How is this different from an offshore staffing agency?
No account-manager layer, no pooled resourcing, and the engineer works your actual hours — Porto is on Western European Time, so an EU team has full-day overlap, not a four-hour window that turns every review into a next-day round trip.
02 Why a 3-month minimum?
It's a feature, not friction: it's long enough for the engineer to actually integrate with your team and codebase instead of context-switching across parallel gigs — the whole value of this service is depth of integration, which a one-month engagement can't deliver.
03 Who do we actually talk to day to day?
The engineer, directly. There's no separate project manager relaying messages between you and the person writing the code.
04 Can we interview or choose the engineer?
Yes — matching starts with a scoping call and we confirm fit with you before the engagement starts.
05 What if it's not working out?
Say so — engagement terms, including any change or exit process, are documented in the contract at kickoff, not left ambiguous.
06 Do you offer this for design, not just engineering?
The core service here is engineering; for embedded design capacity, see the UI/UX Product Design page's retainer tier.

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