Instant Team Expansion
Senior Engineers. Embedded Fast.
Zero Ramp-Up.
Drop in elite engineering talent that blends into your team and ships from week one. Skip the six-month hiring cycle, the recruiter fees, and the offshore handoffs. Plug in and build.
Positioning
Hiring is Slow. Contractors are Risky. The Work isn’t Waiting.
Your roadmap is set. Your headcount plan is approved. The person you actually need won’t accept an offer for another four months. In the meantime, the team is one engineer short of the velocity you promised the board.
Traditional hiring
“We’ll open the req, screen 200 resumes, run six rounds of interviews, negotiate, give two weeks notice, then onboard for a month before they ship anything.”
Six months from “we need this person” to “this person delivers value.” Meanwhile the deadline arrives.
What we drop in
An engineer who has shipped this kind of system before, in your stack, on a similar team. Joining your standup next week. Pair-programming with your leads by week two. Owning a feature by week three.
No ramp-up tax, no offshore hand-off, no awkward “this isn’t quite what we asked for” two months in.
Who we drop in
Senior Engineers, Across the Disciplines you Actually Need.
Every engineer on our bench has shipped production systems at scale. We pick for fit with your stack, your domain, and your team culture, then make sure the chemistry works before they’re on payroll.
Senior Software Engineers
Full-stack, frontend, backend, mobile. Mid to staff level. Five plus years of production work.
Solution Architects
Senior architects for platform decisions, system redesigns, and the calls that come back to bite the org six quarters later.
AI/ML Specialists
Engineers who have built RAG, fine-tuned models, and shipped predictive systems to production. Not “prompt engineers.”
DevOps and SRE
Infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, incident response. The people who get paged, except they fix it before then.
Data Engineers
Pipelines, warehouses, and the data layer that AI and analytics actually need to be useful.
Embedded Teams (Pod Model)
When one engineer isn’t enough, we drop in a full pod with a tech lead, two engineers, and a PM. They show up as a unit.
From call to commit
How Fast is “Fast”? Day-by-Day.
The default timeline from your first conversation with us to an engineer shipping work alongside your team. Faster is possible if you’re in a fire.
DAY 0
Discovery Call
30 minutes. We learn the role, the stack, the team, and the goal. You learn how we work.
DAY 2
Match Presented
One or two engineers, with full background and recent work. We don’t fire-hose resumes.
DAY 4
Technical Interview
Your team interviews them like a hire. We’ve already filtered for the things you’d cut on.
DAY 7
First Standup
Engineer is in your tools, your standup, and your codebase. First commit by end of week one.
The honest comparison
How this is Different from Typical Staff Augmentation
The staff aug industry has earned its reputation for a reason. Resume mills, junior engineers passed off as senior, language barriers, time zone misery. We built our model around the failure modes.
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What you’re checking |
Typical staff aug |
Hoyack |
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Time to first commit |
3 to 6 weeks |
5 to 7 days |
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Engineer seniority |
Mixed, often junior |
Mid to staff level only |
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Time zone alignment |
Offshore handoffs, async only |
US-based, in your standup |
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If they’re not a fit |
Long offboarding, fees |
Swap inside two weeks, no penalty |
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Backed by |
A recruiter who has never written code |
A senior engineer who reviews their work |
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HR and payroll |
Your problem after 6 months |
Ours, for as long as you need them |
How you engage
Three Engagement Shapes. Pick the One that Matches your Reality.
Solo embed
One Engineer
3 to 12 months
A single senior engineer joins your team, attends your standups, and ships features alongside your full-time staff. The simplest pattern.
Best for
Most common
Embedded Pod
3 to 9 months
A tech lead, two senior engineers, and a PM, dropped in as a unit. They’ve worked together before. They ship a workstream end-to-end inside your roadmap.
Best for
Full team
Outsourced Workstream
6+ months
Hoyack owns a complete workstream. We hire, manage, and ship inside your environment. You get an outcome, not a roster to manage.
Best for
Tell Us the Role. We’ll Tell
You Who’s Available.
One discovery call. We map the gap, share two or three engineer profiles, and follow up with availability and pricing in writing. No long sales cycle.
