Staff augmentation
Pre-vetted senior engineers who plug into your team. Hourly, part-time, or full-time. Full-stack, mobile, AI / ML, DevOps, cloud, QA. You stay in control. We supply the people.
Most engagements start within a few days of the brief. No 90-day onboarding. No agency middle layer between you and the engineer doing the work.
Staff augmentation extends your existing team with skilled engineers from OST. Use it when full-time hires take too long, when you need a specialist for one stretch of the roadmap, or when capacity has to flex around launch dates.
01 · Scale on demand
Bring on engineers when the roadmap needs to move faster than hiring can support. Release them, or roll them into long-term retainers, when the surge ends. No severance, no benefits overhead, no recruitment cycle.
02 · Bridge skill gaps
Need a senior Drupal architect, a React Native lead, a Salesforce developer, an MLOps engineer? Pull a person who has shipped that stack ten times before. Pay for the niche skill without committing to it on payroll.
03 · Keep control
Augmented engineers report into your tech lead. They use your sprint board, your pull-request workflow, your code review standards. We supply the people. You manage the work.
04 · Cut delivery cost
You bypass agency markups on full-build projects, full-time hire ramp time, and the cost of keeping rare specialists on payroll between needs. Pay only for the hours you book.
Match the engagement to the work. Hourly for short fixes and overflow. Part-time for ongoing, predictable load. Full-time for embedded contributors on multi-quarter roadmaps.
Model A
For short fixes, spike work, code review, audits, urgent feature drops.
Pay only for hours worked. End anytime.
Model B
For steady, ongoing capacity at 20 to 30 hours per week. The most common model for product teams.
Predictable cost, predictable output.
Model C
Dedicated 40-hour engineer embedded in your team. Behaves like a hire without the hiring.
Lowest blended rate. Highest continuity.
You brief us. We match. You interview. You decide. We onboard. Most engagements have an engineer producing work inside a week.
Step 01
30-minute call. Stack, seniority, hours, timeline, NDA stage. We confirm we can fill it before you spend more time.
Step 02
Within 48 hours, you get 2 or 3 pre-vetted profiles with rates, availability, and recent project samples.
Step 03
Talk to candidates yourself. Technical screen, culture fit, whatever you run. Pick the person you want.
Step 04
Sign the SOW. NDA in place. Repo access, ticket access, standup invites. First commit usually inside one week.
Step 05
Add more engineers, swap a profile, end a contract. Flex up and down as the roadmap moves. No drama.
Whatever your stack, we have shipped it. Pull from the same engineers who deliver our full-build engagements. Senior coverage across web, mobile, data, AI / ML, cloud, and QA.
Senior staffing without bait-and-switch. Compliance and security on day one. Continuity beyond the contract. The same team that delivers full builds is on the bench you draw from.
No swaps
The senior on your kickoff call is the senior on your release. We do not bait you with seniors and ship juniors. If a profile is unavailable mid-engagement, you approve the replacement. Always.
Pre-vetted
Every developer has shipped real production work for OST clients. Background-checked, NDA-ready, code review trained. No freelance marketplace surprises.
Compliance ready
For regulated stacks (healthcare, government, financial services), we staff engineers with the right training and the right paper trail. SBOM, audit logs, attestations on request.
USA & India coverage
US-based PMs and senior architects when you need them on your time zone. India delivery team when economics and after-hours coverage matter. We blend both transparently inside one engagement.
FAQ
An engineer who works remotely or on-site on a temporary basis to fulfill your software development needs. They can be hired for specific projects, short-term tasks, or ongoing development support. No long-term commitment of a full-time hire.
A service that lets you extend your existing team by adding external talent. OST supplies skilled developers who work alongside your in-house team to enhance productivity, bridge skill gaps, and meet deadlines. Your team manages the work. We supply the people.
Full-stack, front-end, back-end, mobile, DevOps, AI / ML specialists, cloud architects, database administrators, QA engineers, Salesforce developers. See the role grid above for the bench breakdown.
Tell us the gap on a 30-minute call. Within 48 hours we send 2 or 3 pre-vetted profiles. Most engagements have an engineer producing work within 3 to 7 days of you signing the SOW.
Hourly (no minimum, end anytime), part-time (20 to 30 hours per week on retainer), full-time (40 hours per week, embedded). Pick what fits the work. Switch later if it changes.
Yes. Add engineers, swap a profile, end a contract. Flex up and down as your roadmap shifts. We expect this. No restocking fees, no notice penalties beyond what you signed.
Mostly yes. Our bench is staffed with full-time OST engineers across our USA and India teams. We supplement with vetted long-term contractors when a niche skill is rare. Either way, the engineer is on contract with us, and we are on contract with you.
No. We offer hourly, part-time, and full-time engagements with no long lock-in. End an engagement anytime with the notice period in your SOW (typically 2 weeks for hourly, 30 days for retainer).
Education, nonprofit, healthcare, real estate, e-commerce, manufacturing as core. Plus financial services, hospitality, media, fitness, and others. See our industries page for full coverage.
You do, after the final invoice on each deliverable is paid. Code lives in your repository from day one. End of story.
One brief. Two or three matched profiles in 48 hours. Engineers in your repo within the week.
