1 week
Typical time to first engineer.
You keep the product decisions, the priorities, and the process. We provide vetted engineers who plug directly into your team, on your tools, reporting to your leads.
Typical time to first engineer.
Scale up or down with notice.
Engineers work in your existing tools.
Placing engineers with teams worldwide.
It's not a project we deliver back to you. It's engineering capacity that becomes part of how your team already works, for as long as you need it.
Your team leads still own the roadmap, the priorities, and the technical decisions. We don't run a separate process alongside yours, we work inside it.
You get senior engineers matched to the skills you're missing: a specific framework, a scarce specialty, or just more hands on a backlog that's outgrown your team.
There's no handoff, no separate sprint, no translation layer. Engineers attend your standups, use your board, and ship through your existing pipeline.
Add one engineer or a full pod. Extend, pause, or wind down with notice, not a locked-in annual contract you can't adjust.
The backlog is real and funded, but hiring locally would take months you don't have.
A specific framework, a legacy language, or deep expertise in something you'll only need for a defined stretch of work.
Augmentation lets you work with engineers on real work before deciding whether to scale the relationship, no long-term contract required upfront.
A launch, a migration, a compliance deadline, extra capacity for a defined period without changing your permanent headcount.
Every engineer we place has already been building production software for us, on other engagements, before they ever join your team. Nobody is hired specifically to be placed with a client, untested.
Real code review and system design exercises, not multiple-choice tests. Most applicants don't pass this stage.
Engineers work on our own client projects first. Placement on augmentation engagements is earned, not a first assignment.
Every engineer we place is fluent enough to join your standups, write clear async updates, and push back on a requirement that doesn't make sense.
We match on the specific languages, frameworks, and domain your project needs, not just general availability.
Most engineers we place have 5+ years of experience.
Every engineer has delivered on a prior NUS engagement.
Performance is reviewed with you throughout the engagement.
"I hired NUS to work on our existing Airbnb management software. They communicated well with our team and provided high quality work in short time. Their English skills were also great in both verbal and writing. In the end I worked with multiple developers, business analysts and quality control in NUS over 3.5 years. I'm very satisfied with their service. I think they are very good at building cloud based software and mobile apps."
Hire a single engineer and they're still not on their own. A Tech Lead is available to unblock hard problems, and where we feel it protects the quality of the work, we'll bring in QA or PM support at our own discretion, at no extra cost to you.
A Tech Lead on call for hard problems. If your engineer hits something outside their depth, a senior Tech Lead is available to unblock them.
QA support, when we judge it's needed. On engagements where an extra check protects quality, we'll add QA review ourselves, at no charge to you.
PM support, offered the same way. If coordination would benefit the engagement, we may provide it at no extra cost, based on what the project needs.
It's part of how we protect quality across every engagement, offered at our discretion rather than something added to the invoice.
The goal is that within a couple of weeks, it should feel like they were always on the team. That means fitting into how you already work, not asking you to adapt to us.
Engineers work directly in your existing stack: your repo, your task board, your CI/CD, your chat tool. Nothing new for your team to learn.
Slack
Teams
Jira
LinearYour repo & CIStandups, sprint planning, retros, code review, whatever cadence your team already runs, engineers attend and participate exactly like any other team member.
Engineers report to your engineering lead or PM. We stay involved to support them and handle anything administrative, but we don't sit between them and your team.
Every issue gets triaged by severity, not handled first-in-first-out. A checkout outage doesn't wait behind a cosmetic bug report.
The skills, the seniority, the expected time commitment, and any specifics about your stack or domain. Most requests take one conversation to scope.
You review the engineer's background and talk to them directly before anything is confirmed. If they're not the right fit, we propose someone else, at no cost to you.
Access provisioned, codebase walkthrough, and close check-ins to make sure the engineer is actually contributing, not just observing.
Regular check-ins between us and you to confirm things are working. If your needs change, we adjust the engagement, add capacity, shift skills, or wind down with notice.
You commit to a minimum block of hours per engineer each month.
No project markup, no hidden staffing fees layered on top.
Priced per engineer, per month, scoped to the seniority and skillset you need.
A minimum monthly commitment, agreed upfront, no surprise invoices.
Scale the number of engineers up or down as your needs change.
Standard notice period to adjust or end the engagement, no long lock-in contract.
Replacement at no extra cost if an engineer isn't the right fit.
Augmentation sits between hiring locally and handing a project
to a traditional outsourcing vendor.
A few augmentation engagements, from a single specialist filling a skill gap to an ongoing pod embedded in a client's team.
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Tell us what skills you're missing and how much capacity you need. Most conversations start with a 30-minute call.
