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7 engineers free this month

Fill the seat, keep the team.

Senior engineers who join your sprints and take direction from your lead. You keep the process, the priorities and the code: we carry payroll, equipment, leave cover and replacement risk.

You already know how to run a team. You just need one more person on it by the end of the month.

  • 1

    Engineer minimum

  • 48h

    To real profiles

  • 2 wks

    Paid trial

  • 0

    Conversion fee at 12 months

Get your free estimate

Three quick questions: scope, approach and a price range back within 48 hours. No sales call required first.

What do you need built?
When do you want to start?
Where should we send the estimate?

Answer all three questions above, then send.

NDA-friendly · IP yours from day one
Profiles in 48 hours. You direct the work. Paid two-week trial. Convert free at 12 months. One monthly invoice

When it fits

Four situations where augmentation beats hiring.

If none of these describe you, a permanent hire is probably the better answer, and we will say so on the call rather than sell you a seat.

  • A deadline arrived early

    A launch date moved and your team is two engineers short of hitting it. You need hands now, not a hiring pipeline.

    Start in 1–2 weeks

  • One skill you do not have

    The roadmap needs Flutter, or a Laravel refactor, or someone who has actually run a migration. Hiring for one project rarely makes sense.

    Single-skill hire

  • Cover for a gap

    Parental leave, a resignation, a long notice period. Keep the roadmap moving without a panic hire you regret in six months.

    3–9 month cover

  • Proving a role is permanent

    You suspect you need a full-time mobile engineer but are not certain yet. Rent before you buy.

    Convert or stop

Roles & rates

Six roles, one monthly rate each.

Rates cover salary, equipment, payroll, leave cover and management overhead. There is no recruiter fee, no bench charge and no annual commitment.

  • Backend engineers

    $3,200 – $5,600

    Laravel, PHP, Node.js, NestJS

  • Frontend engineers

    $3,200 – $5,200

    React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript

  • Mobile engineers

    $3,400 – $5,400

    Flutter, Dart, React Native

  • Full-stack engineers

    $3,600 – $5,800

    Laravel + React, Node + Next.js

  • QA engineers

    $2,600 – $4,200

    Manual, Playwright, Cypress, API

  • DevOps engineers

    $3,800 – $6,000

    AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform

How it works

You direct the work. We carry the overhead.

The split is deliberately simple: everything about the product is yours, everything about employment is ours.

  • You manage them

    Your sprints, your priorities, your definition of done. Our engineer takes direction from your lead, not from us.

    Your process

  • We handle the employment

    Payroll, equipment, leave cover, HR and the office they sit in. One monthly invoice, nothing else to administer.

    One invoice

  • Replace or scale in two weeks

    Wrong fit or changed need: two weeks notice to swap a role, thirty days to end it. No renegotiation.

    2 weeks to swap

  • Convert to your payroll

    If the role turns out to be permanent, you can hire them directly after twelve months with no conversion fee.

    No buyout fee

Augmentation or a pod

Which of the two you actually need.

Both cost roughly the same per engineer. The question is whether you need capacity or capacity plus a process, and whether you would rather have named engineers inside your own team or a standing team on your board running its own delivery.

  • Who sets the priorities

    Usual: You do, sprint by sprint. With QalbIT: We do, against the agreed scope.

  • Who manages the work

    Usual: Your lead or PM. With QalbIT: Our tech lead.

  • What you get

    Usual: Individual engineers. With QalbIT: A complete delivery team.

  • Best when

    Usual: You have a process and need capacity. With QalbIT: You need the process too.

  • Minimum size

    Usual: One engineer. With QalbIT: Two engineers.

  • QA included

    Usual: Optional, add a QA engineer. With QalbIT: Built into the pod.

How it starts

Four steps, about two weeks.

No onboarding programme you pay for and no ramp-up invoice. The first ticket is real work in your repository.

  1. Send the role

    Stack, seniority, how long, and what they will be working on. Ten minutes to write.

    Day 1

  2. Profiles in 48 hours

    Two or three engineers with real project history and current availability.

    48 hours

  3. You interview

    Technical conversation on your terms. Reject as many as you like: there is no pressure to take the first.

    Week 1

  4. Paid trial sprint

    Two weeks on a real ticket in your repo. Wrong fit, you stop and pay only for that sprint.

    Weeks 2–3

Start here

Send the gap. Get profiles in 48 hours.

Tell us the stack, the seniority and roughly how long. You get real engineers with project history, a specific rate and a start date.

  • Start here

    Send the gap. Get profiles in 48 hours.

    Tell us the stack, the seniority and roughly how long. You get real engineers with project history, a specific rate and a start date.

    • Real profiles, not generic CVs
    • You interview and reject freely
    • A paid two-week trial on a real ticket
    • Convert to your payroll at 12 months, free

FAQs · staff augmentation

Staff augmentation: frequently asked questions

Team size, working hours, conversion to permanent, and what happens if the fit is wrong.

Ask us directly →
Augmentation gives you engineers who take direction from your lead. A dedicated pod comes with its own tech lead who owns delivery. If you already have a process, augmentation is cheaper and simpler.
Yes. Augmentation has no minimum team size: one engineer for three months is a perfectly normal engagement.
They work a shifted day to overlap with yours. Most clients get four to six live hours daily; full overlap is available at a premium for time-critical work.
The first two weeks are a paid trial on a real ticket. If it is not working you stop there, and any replacement is at no extra cost.
Yes. After twelve months you can take them onto your payroll with no conversion fee. Before twelve months there is a pro-rated fee we will state up front.
We do: company-managed, encrypted machines and all standard tooling. You provide access to your own systems and licences.
One to two weeks from the first call for common stacks. Rarer skills can take three to four while we shortlist properly rather than filling the seat.

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Next step

One more engineer, by the end of the month.

Send the role in two lines. Real profiles, a specific rate and a start date come back within 48 hours.

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