Extend your engineering teamwithout hiring locally.

A freelancer is one person and one relationship: when they are unavailable, ill, or move on to a better offer, the work stops and the context leaves with them. A dedicated team is scoped and staffed by us, works under our technical review as well as yours, and writes onboarding notes from day one so the knowledge lives in your repository rather than in one head. The honest trade-off is that a freelancer is simpler and lighter for a small, self-contained piece of work — if that is what you have, hire one.

A staffing agency sells you the CV. They source, place, invoice the hours, and from the day the contract starts the performance question is entirely yours. We scope the roles against your roadmap before proposing anyone, onboard the engineers ourselves, hold them to our engineering standards alongside your own, and treat the output as our responsibility rather than the timesheet. When something is not working, that is our problem to fix, not a re-recruitment exercise you have to run again.

We usually ask for an initial three months, because that is roughly how long it takes for a good engineer to become genuinely productive in an unfamiliar codebase — anything shorter mostly buys you the ramp-up. After that it runs month to month with no retainer lock-in and no annual commitment. Ending it is a notice-period conversation so we can hand over cleanly, not a penalty clause, and the exact terms are written into the engagement before anything starts.

Yes, and it is meant to be a scheduled conversation rather than an awkward one. Adding a role runs through the same scoping and matching steps as the first hire, so plan for lead time — new engineers are not instant, and anyone who tells you otherwise is describing a bench, not a match. Scaling down works on the notice period agreed at the start, which gives us time to write up and hand over whatever is in flight instead of dropping it mid-sprint.

Philippine Standard Time, UTC+8, from Silang in Cavite. Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Perth share our clock outright; eastern Australia is two to three hours ahead, so five or six hours of a standard day overlap. The UK and continental Europe are six to eight hours behind us, which puts our late afternoon against your morning — two hours by default, three or four when the team starts later. North America is the hard case: the east coast is twelve to thirteen hours behind and the west coast fifteen to sixteen, so an early Philippine start catches the tail of the Pacific afternoon and anything beyond that needs a deliberately shifted schedule, which we agree in writing during scoping.

Yes — that is the whole point of the arrangement. An engineer assigned to your team is not shared across other clients, not rotated onto an unrelated launch when it gets busy, and not quietly split between two backlogs. They keep internal commitments to the studio itself, such as code review and technical discussion, because that is what keeps their work sharp. If we ever needed to move someone, you would hear it from us in advance with a plan attached, not afterwards.

Because the work lands in your repository as it is written, there is no final delivery event to wait for — you already hold the code, the commit history, and the environment configuration on the day you give notice. During the notice period we put the remaining knowledge in writing: architecture notes, deployment and environment setup, known issues and the workarounds in place, and anything that only exists as habit. We then run walkthroughs with whoever is picking the work up. Commercial terms for the engagement are agreed in writing per engagement rather than assumed from a web page.

Tell us early and directly. We would far rather replace someone in week three than have your team quietly work around them for a quarter, and we do not charge you for the replacement process or turn it into an argument about who was right. Because onboarding notes are written from the start and everything is already in your repository, a replacement picks up context considerably faster than the original ramp-up took.