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IT staff augmentation
Senior contract software engineers, embedded in your team on a day rate. React, React Native, JavaScript and TypeScript, PHP, DevOps, and AWS: engineers who are productive in the first week, working your way, under your direction.
No recruitment cycle, no long commitment, no offshore bench. The engineers who join your standups, your repo, and your calls are the senior people we would put on our own systems.
- Day-rate, rolling engagements with a clear notice period
- Company-to-company: you contract with Tech Studio Ltd
- One engineer or a small team, remote-first
- UK and Brazil time zones covered
- 25+ years of production delivery, including regulated financial services.
- Production-grade delivery, not prototypes or slide decks.
- Secure-by-default. ISO 27001 advisory capability.
- Direct access to the senior people who do the work. No account managers.
Skills we place
Senior only. The profile we send is the person who turns up, and you meet them before anything is signed.
React Native
Cross-platform mobile in production: releases in both stores, native modules where needed, CI for the whole pipeline.
JavaScript & TypeScript
Full-stack Node.js and TypeScript: APIs, background jobs, integrations, and the typing discipline that keeps refactors safe.
PHP
Modern PHP and the legacy kind nobody else wants to touch: stabilise, modernise, and keep the lights on while doing both.
DevOps & CI/CD
Pipelines, Docker, GitHub Actions, observability: shipping made boring, which is the point.
AWS
Architecture, cost control, serverless and containers, SQS-backed processing: cloud run like production, not like a demo.
Your team, extended
Augmentation is not outsourcing. The engineer works inside your process: your board, your reviews, your priorities. You keep control of delivery; we keep the quality bar.
Start with one engineer. Scale to a small team when the roadmap demands it, and scale back down without a redundancy conversation.
- Productive in week one, not month three
- Your tools, your workflow, your codebase
- Swap or stop with notice, no drama
Augmentation, hire, or outsourcing?
| Compare | Staff augmentation | Permanent hire | Outsourced project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Days to a couple of weeks | Months of recruitment | Weeks |
| Commitment | Rolling, with notice | Permanent | Fixed scope |
| Who directs the work | You | You | The vendor |
| Overheads | Day rate only | Salary, National Insurance, pension, equipment | Management layers and margins |
| Best when | The roadmap needs senior hands now | It is a long-term core role | The work is a well-defined standalone build |
How placement works
- 01
The call
Thirty minutes on the stack, the gap, and how your team works. You get a day rate and a profile in writing.
- 02
Meet the engineer
You interview the actual person, not a composite CV. If it is not a fit, we say so and stop there.
- 03
Embed
Access sorted, first tickets in week one. The engineer joins your ceremonies and ships inside your workflow.
- 04
Review and scale
A standing check-in on output and fit. Extend, add a second engineer, or wind down with notice. Your call.
Client feedback
What clients say.
“Wagner of Tech Studio is a highly skilled developer and assisted me greatly in Flatchecker.com's early work. He has a great breadth of skills and was comfortable working on many aspects of the site including web backend, HTML/CSS, integration with social networks and Google Maps. A good communicator, works diligently and to a high quality.”
“Tech Studio provided a first class technical build and support service for our clients' online design projects.”
“Have been extremely impressed with the service provided and support when required.”
“Excellent design ideas, suggestions on content, very quick response times and ongoing support.”
Staff augmentation questions
What does staff augmentation cost?
A day rate, set by skill and seniority, stated in the proposal before you commit. No recruitment fees, no employer overheads, no margin hidden in a project price.
How quickly can an engineer start?
Typically days to a couple of weeks, depending on your onboarding and access process. Compare that with a three-month recruitment cycle and the difference is the point.
How is this different from outsourcing a project?
Control. In augmentation you direct the work inside your own process and keep the knowledge in your team. Outsourcing hands a scope to a vendor and gets a deliverable back. Both are valid; they solve different problems.
How long are engagements, and what is the notice period?
Rolling engagements with a notice period agreed up front, typically measured in weeks. Short trials are welcome: the fastest way to judge a senior engineer is two weeks of real tickets.
How does the contract work? What about IR35?
You contract with Tech Studio Ltd, company to company: we supply an engineering service, not a payroll worker. We are happy to walk through the working arrangement with your legal or finance people as part of scoping.
Remote or on-site?
Remote-first, working your hours, with on-site days by arrangement. UK and Brazil time zones are covered as standard.
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Get in touch
Book a call
Tell us the stack and the gap. We will come back with the engineer profile we would put in and the day rate, and you meet them before anything is signed.