Staff Augmentation
Scale your engineering team without scaling your headcount
Augment your existing engineering organisation with senior developers, QA, and DevOps engineers from India — domain-aware, NDA-signed, and active in your sprint within five business days. From $16 per hour, minimum 80 hours per month.
- Multi-role team blocks available
- Senior engineers — 4+ years minimum
- IP assigned to you from day one
- 40+
- Engineers on staff
- 8+
- Years in business
- $16/hr
- Starting rate
- 5 days
- To first PR in your repo
What makes this different
Augmentation that actually integrates
Most staff augmentation delivers bodies. We deliver engineers who understand your domain, work inside your process, and ship production code.
Multi-role team blocks
Fill multiple roles simultaneously — frontend, backend, mobile, QA, and DevOps in a single engagement. Nexios manages the coordination between roles so your engineering manager does not have to juggle three separate vendors.
Domain-aware engineers, not generic contractors
Our engineers have shipped production software in healthcare, e-commerce, and luxury retail. They understand the compliance requirements, data models, and workflow logic specific to your industry before the first sprint begins.
Scale capacity up or down monthly
Ramp up four engineers for a product push. Scale back to one for a maintenance phase. No penalty for ramping down. Our monthly model lets you match engineering capacity to your actual roadmap — not a fixed headcount you are paying for whether or not the work exists.
Zero management overhead on our side
We handle HR, benefits, hardware, and infrastructure for every engineer we place. You manage the work. We manage the people. There is no admin cost passed to you on top of the hourly or monthly rate.
Rapid deployment — active within one week
Once you confirm the roles and we complete technical screening, augmented engineers are active in your sprint within five business days. No three-month notice periods, no visa processing, no office setup.
Full IP ownership and NDA on day one
Every engineer signs your NDA before any codebase access. All IP produced during the engagement is assigned to you under contract. We do not retain rights to client code, and we do not reuse work from one client in another engagement.
Roles and rates
Every role your engineering team needs
Transparent hourly rates. Minimum 80 hours per engineer per month. Three-month initial commitment, monthly extensions after.
Frontend Engineers
$20 / hrReact · Next.js · Vue · TypeScript · Tailwind
Backend Engineers
$20 / hrLaravel · Node.js · Python · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis
Mobile Developers
$20 / hrReact Native · Swift (iOS) · Kotlin (Android) · Flutter
AI / ML Engineers
$22 / hrOpenAI · LangChain · RAG · Vector DBs · Claude · Python
QA Engineers
$16 / hrPlaywright · Cypress · Appium · Manual · Performance
DevOps / Cloud Engineers
$20 / hrAWS · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Terraform · Nginx
All rates are for senior engineers (4+ years). We do not place junior engineers in staff augmentation roles. Every candidate is screened by our senior engineering team before being presented to you.
Process
Active in your sprint within one week
A lean four-step process from scope call to augmented engineers shipping code in your repository.
Define the roles and timeline
Tell us which roles you need, the stack, the domain, and how long you need them for. A 30-minute call is enough to scope the engagement accurately.
Screening and profiling
We screen candidates from our bench against your requirements and provide detailed profiles. You review and approve every engineer before they join.
Technical interview on your terms
Run your standard technical evaluation. Live coding, architecture review, take-home — your call. We join if needed but the decision is yours.
Active in your sprint within 5 days
Contracts signed, tools provisioned, codebase access granted. Your augmented team is submitting pull requests in the same week they onboard.
Choosing the right model
Staff augmentation vs. dedicated developer
Both models give you Nexios engineers embedded in your team. The difference is who you are and what you need.
Consideration
Dedicated Developer
from $2,500/mo
Staff Augmentation
from $16/hr
Best for
Startups, small teams
Companies with 10+ eng
Roles
Single developer
Multi-role team blocks
Pricing
Flat monthly per dev
Hourly, min 80 hrs/mo
Minimum term
3 months
3 months
Scaling
Add developers monthly
Adjust hours monthly
IP ownership
Full — assigned to you
Full — assigned to you
Security & compliance
Your code, your IP, your data
NDA before codebase access
Every engineer signs your NDA as part of the individual placement agreement — before they receive repository access, API keys, or any client data.
Full IP assignment in the MSA
The master services agreement explicitly assigns all IP produced during the engagement to you. We do not retain rights, claim licenses, or reuse client code in other engagements.
Secure dev environment standards
All engineers use encrypted storage, VPN access, and 2FA on every system. No source code is stored on personal devices. We enforce the same security standards we recommend to clients.
FAQ
Questions about staff augmentation
How is staff augmentation different from hiring a dedicated developer?
Staff augmentation is designed for companies with an existing engineering organisation that needs to scale capacity — typically across multiple roles simultaneously. A dedicated developer is a single engineer embedded in your team long-term, usually for a startup or a company extending a small team. The underlying model is similar; the difference is in scale, the buyer, and the relationship to your existing organisation. If you have a CTO or VP Eng managing a team of 10+, augmentation is the right frame. If you're a founder building your first team, dedicated developers is the better starting point.
What is the minimum engagement?
Minimum 80 hours per month per engineer, on a three-month initial commitment. This is the minimum that allows meaningful ramp-up and contribution. After the initial three months, engagements continue month-to-month with 30 days notice to scale up, scale down, or end.
Can you augment an existing team mid-sprint?
Yes. We have done this many times. Our engineers are used to joining active sprints, reading existing codebases, and becoming productive within the first week. We do a two-hour codebase walkthrough on day one to compress ramp-up time. Most clients see their first meaningful PR within three to five days of onboarding.
How do you handle intellectual property and code ownership?
All IP produced during the engagement is assigned to you under the MSA we sign before any work begins. We do not retain rights to client code, do not reuse work across clients, and do not maintain copies of client codebases after engagement end. Every engineer signs your NDA as part of their individual placement agreement.
What timezone do your engineers work in?
India Standard Time (IST, GMT+5:30), with flexibility to shift hours for US or EU overlap. IST naturally overlaps with US East mornings (8am–12pm EST) and European afternoons. For West Coast US clients, our engineers start earlier to extend the overlap window. We discuss timezone requirements during scoping and match engineers accordingly.
Do you offer a trial period or replacement guarantee?
We offer a two-week trial period at the start of each engagement. If an engineer placed with your team is not working out — for any reason — we replace them within five business days at no additional cost. After the trial period, replacements take longer (typically two to three weeks to screen and place a new candidate) but are still offered at no cost if the issue is performance-related.
Augment your team
Ready to scale your engineering capacity?
Tell us which roles you need, your stack, and your timeline. We respond within 4 business hours with matched candidate profiles.