Engineers in your sprint within weeks of your approval.
Senior only, vetted for judgment and ownership as well as stack.
With one senior engineer for three months. Add more once the fit is proven.
Monthly per engineer, with no recruiting fees.
A CV that matches your stack tells you very little about whether someone can understand your product, make good calls without supervision or take responsibility for a release.
When that's missing, your senior people end up managing contractors instead of building, onboarding drags on for weeks and the capacity you're paying for never quite shows up in what ships. Many teams try staff augmentation once, get burned and go back to waiting for hires.
We built Dribble Works for the teams that still need the capacity and can't afford a second bad experience.
We do our best work with a specific kind of team. If this sounds like yours, we should talk.
Plenty of providers call themselves an extension of your team. This is what it looks like day to day when we do it.
Your Repos, Your Boards, Your Sprints
Your Business, Your Product, Your Enigneering Leads.
Daily, in Your Tools, Your Slack, Your Standups.
You define what the team owns, and the outcomes.
All documentation done in your systems.
Build a long-term team, the same engineers month after month
Our engineers use AI every day for research, coding, testing and documentation, and they know when to double-check what it produces. Everything that reaches your codebase is reviewed and owned by a senior engineer, so you get the extra speed with the same standard of quality.
Most teams that hesitate to bring in outside engineers have done it before and spent weeks explaining the system to someone who then left. This is how we make sure that doesn't happen again.
A short call about your product, your roadmap, your stack and where delivery is getting stuck. We want to understand what kind of seniority you actually need before we suggest anyone.
We propose engineers for their experience, autonomy and communication as much as for their stack. You interview them and decide who joins.
Week one is for reading. The engineer goes through the repo history, recent postmortems, the CI config and the parts of the codebase everyone warns new people about. By the end of that week you get a written read of where delivery is losing time.
In week two, the engineer takes on something from your backlog that a senior engineer can own end to end, including review, tests and deploy. By week three they're reviewing your team's pull requests, which is usually where a stretched team feels relief first. From then on you get a short weekly update on what shipped, what's blocked and what's next.
Once the fit is proven, you decide what comes next: add engineers, change profiles, widen the scope or keep the capacity as it is.
Most teams start with a single senior engineer. It's the easiest way to see how we work inside your product before committing to more. From there, the engagement can grow with your roadmap.
One senior engineer to cover an open role or unblock a specific part of the roadmap
A small team of 2 to 3 engineers when one area of the product has to move faster, for example backend, frontend and QA automation
A pod of 3 to 5 with a tech lead when you need a whole front owned, like a new product line or a platform migration
Billing is monthly, with no recruiting fees. The first engagement runs for three months, which gives enough time for real integration and real output. After that, you renew month to month or by quarter.
Plenty of providers call themselves an extension of your team. This is what it looks like day to day when we do it.
Software development staff augmentation is a way to add external engineers to your in-house team for as long as you need them. They work under your direction, in your tools and processes, while the partner handles sourcing, contracts and payroll. You get the capacity without a permanent hire.
With outsourcing, a vendor takes a defined scope and delivers it with its own team and process. With staff augmentation, the engineers join your team and your process, and you keep control of priorities and architecture. Augmentation fits best when you already have a product team and need more senior capacity inside it.
When the need is urgent, when you're not sure yet whether the role will be permanent, or when you need specific expertise for a period of time. Hiring makes more sense for roles that are core to your long-term team and can wait for a full recruiting process. Many teams use both at once: augmentation covers the gap while the hire happens.
It depends on the profile, the specialization and how many engineers you need. We charge a monthly rate per engineer, with no recruiting fees, and you see the full price in the proposal before anyone starts. When you compare it with hiring, include what an in-house hire really costs: recruiting fees, benefits, management time and the months before the person is fully productive.
The common ones are engineers who aren't as senior as their CV says, slow ramp-up, knowledge that leaves with the contractor and too much management load on your team. We deal with each directly: senior-only engineers you interview yourself, a structured first month, documentation inside your systems and delivery oversight from the start.
Tell us early. We'll look at what isn't working with you and, if the profile is the problem, we replace the engineer and take care of the handover so the work doesn't stall.
The first engagement runs for three months. That's the time an engineer needs to integrate properly and show real output. After that, you can renew month to month or by quarter, and scale the number of engineers up or down.
IT staff augmentation is a broad term that companies use for any technology role, from help desk to software engineering. We focus only on software engineering for teams building digital products. For IT support, help desk or network administration, an IT staffing agency will be a better fit.
Describe what you're trying to ship and what's in the way.
A senior person on our team reads every message and gets back to you with a concrete next step.