Staff Augmentation

Scale Your Team

Senior engineers who join your existing team and work to your direction. We handle recruitment, payroll and retention.

Who It's For

This service is most valuable for two scenarios.

A role has been open too long.: The search is taking longer than the roadmap allows, and the work is slipping while it runs.
The team needs a skill it does not have.: A stack or specialisation the current work needs that nobody in-house covers.

In both cases we place senior engineers inside the team you already run, on your tools and in your standups.

How It Works

1 Scope the role. A scoping call captures the stack, the seniority, the ramp and the constraints the role has to work within.
2 Shortlist in 48 hours. We recruit continuously rather than per request, so pre-vetted candidates reach you within 48 business hours.
3 Trial the fit. A two-week trial inside your team. If the fit is wrong we replace the engineer at no cost to you.
4 Embed and scale. Engineers work in your tools and your standups on a Resource-on-Request basis, and you scale up or down as the work moves.

You direct the work, the priorities and the definition of done. We handle recruitment, payroll and retention. If someone is not working out, the 30-day replacement guarantee covers it.

How We Work

Team Structure

The engineer sits inside the team you already run and reports to you. The employment behind them sits with us.

Your side

Your team

You direct the work. The engineer takes direction from you, the same as anyone else on the team.

In your team

Embedded engineers

Senior engineers working in your tools and your standups. Assessed by engineers before they reach you.

Behind them

Adaca

Recruitment, payroll and retention sit with us, along with the 30-day replacement guarantee. None of it reaches your management line.

Adding a second or third engineer changes nothing about the line of management. They report to you the same way.

Fig 03 · Reporting lines Select a role

Reports to you Employed by us

Recruited and employed by Adaca, directed by you.

How It Compares

Every alternative below is a reasonable choice for some programmes. Read across a row to see where the two models actually differ.

Hiring the engineer yourself compared with An Adaca embedded engineer
Hiring the engineer yourself	An Adaca embedded engineer
You write the ad, screen the applications and interview.	We shortlist pre-vetted engineers within 48 business hours.
Payroll, leave and equipment become yours to carry.	The employment obligations sit with us.
A wrong hire takes months to unwind.	A two-week trial, then a 30-day replacement guarantee.

A contractor or freelancer compared with An Adaca embedded engineer
A contractor or freelancer	An Adaca embedded engineer
Sourced one at a time from the open market.	Sourced from engineers we already know and keep.
Vetting the work is your job.	Assessed by engineers before they reach you.
No cover when they leave mid-sprint.	A bench behind them and a replacement guarantee.

A recruitment agency compared with An Adaca embedded engineer
A recruitment agency	An Adaca embedded engineer
They search, they place, and the engagement ends.	We recruit, employ, and stay on the engagement.
Retention becomes your problem on day one.	Retention is ours, on 4.5-year average tenure.
A departure means starting the brief again.	A departure is ours to replace inside 30 days.