Staff Augmentation
Your team reinforced in 7 days
not the 30 to 90 hiring takes
on every time zone
by people who know the stack
The problem
Where hiring stalls the roadmap
It isn't a budget problem. The seniority the project demands isn't available at the pace the business needs, and every month a role stays open costs delivery.
The senior role won't close
Demand for senior engineers keeps outrunning supply. The req stays open, the roadmap waits, and the quarter goes by.
Hiring takes 30 to 90 days
Between posting, interviewing, negotiating and notice periods, the quarter ends before the new hire ships anything.
The true cost of an FTE surprises
Benefits, payroll burden, equipment and overhead stack on top of salary. The real number is well above what's on the offer letter.
A demand spike with no slack
The project needs extra capacity for a few months, not a permanent headcount. Hiring only to lay off later is expensive on both sides.
How we think
This isn't about cutting cost, it's about being able to hire at all
Talent scarcity has overtaken cost as the number one reason to bring in an outside team. The engineers you need for a mission-critical system are the hardest ones to hire, and the ones your competitors are chasing too. Access at speed is the point. Cost predictability is the consequence.
Roles
Roles and specialists you can hire
Senior engineers across the major technologies and specializations, every one of them technically assessed before they reach you.
Engagement models
You choose how to scale
One senior expert placed exactly where the gap is, or an entire cross-functional squad that arrives already aligned. Both adapt to your delivery needs.
Allocate a specialist
Individual expert
Strengthen your team with a single senior expert, exactly where you need it.
- Senior frontend engineer
- Senior backend engineer
- Mobile engineer
- QA & test engineer
And more — product, DevOps, data, AI and other senior roles as needed.
Deploy a delivery squad
Full team
Launch a ready-to-run, cross-functional squad, already aligned and productive.
- 1 frontend engineer (React / Angular / Vue.js)
- 1 backend engineer (Node.js, Java or .NET)
- 1 QA engineer
- 1 product owner
Squads are customizable by scope, stack and complexity, and scale up or down as your needs evolve.
How Staff Augmentation works
From scoping the role to an engineer producing inside your team, in days rather than months.
01
We scope the role
Our Head of Talent Acquisition validates stack, seniority, timeline and team context, so the profile arrives a fit and not merely available.
02
We present pre-vetted engineers
You meet senior candidates who have already cleared technical vetting, communication readiness and operational validation.
03
Onboarding in days
Live in 7 days, with the engineer integrated into your team, your process, your toolchain and your working hours.
04
Ongoing support
KPIs held to the same bar as your internal team, with reporting and a Delivery Manager alongside. Monthly renewal, capacity you can adjust.
Why Luby
The right profile, on the timeline the project demands
220+ engineers across 40+ technologies. What changes the outcome isn't the size of the talent bench — it's who screens the profile before it reaches you.
Technical vetting that means something
The people screening the profile know the stack. You interview candidates who have passed a real technical assessment, not résumés filtered by keyword.
Speed hiring can't match
Seven days against the 30 to 90 an internal process takes. That's the difference between the roadmap moving this quarter or the next one.
Predictable cost, no hidden burden
One rate that covers recruiting, HR, equipment and management. No payroll burden or overhead showing up on the invoice later.
Aligned to U.S. business hours
Engineers working your hours, in English, on your standups and your review cycles. Overlap is the working assumption, not the exception.
The code is yours from day one
IP assignment in the contract, with an NDA and the security bar of a company certified in ISO/IEC 27001 and 27701.
One specialist or a full squad
Allocate a single senior expert exactly where you need it, or deploy a ready-to-run cross-functional squad. Scale up or down as needs change.
The metrics we chase
The number staffing answers to
Placing an engineer isn't filling a seat. The bar is the same one you hold your internal team to, tracked from the first month.
Time to placement
Profile fit to the role
Cost per engineer
Productivity in the first month
Engineer retention
Cost of vacancy avoided
Case in focus
Scaling a global payments platform
A payments platform for freelancers and gig workers faced instability and missed deadlines after multiple failed development cycles. Luby joined as an engineering partner to restore stability and accelerate delivery, deploying senior engineers specialized in payments and APIs.
Results
- Stabilized production environment
- Strengthened backend for higher transaction volumes
- Global payment offramps live in Mexico, South Korea and India
- Secure international expansion enabled
Common questions about Staff Augmentation
Industries
Where this already runs
The sectors this work shows up in most. See how it plays out in each.
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Ready to extend your team?
Tell us the profile you need and we'll present pre-vetted candidates within days. No commitment, no search fee.