Staff augmentation with senior engineers who own the work

The cost of staff augmentation depends on the roles you need, their seniority, and how long the engagement runs. A single senior developer costs less per month than a full dedicated development team with a designer, engineers, and a project manager. We discuss your needs in a free 30-minute call, then share transparent, fixed monthly rates for each placement. There are no hidden fees for management overhead or bench time. Because rates are fixed per month, you can plan your budget with confidence, and you can grow or shrink the team as your roadmap changes.

In most cases, it takes five business days from your brief to matched profiles. From approved profiles to the first day on your team usually takes under two weeks. That is much faster than a typical hiring process for senior engineers. To move quickly, tell us the skills, seniority, time zone overlap, and start date you need in the brief. You review every profile before anyone joins, so you always have the final say. If you need someone faster, tell us in the brief and we will prioritize it. We will also be honest if a very specific skill needs more time to find.

Our team works 10:00 to 18:00 Cairo time, Sunday to Thursday. That gives a full working-day overlap with the Gulf, a strong overlap with the UK and Europe, and a morning overlap with the US East Coast. For clients in North America or Asia-Pacific, we use async-first tools, clear written handoffs, and agreed overlap windows for standups and reviews. Time zone fit is part of every match we make, so we plan the overlap before a developer joins your team, not after problems appear. Most of our IT staff augmentation clients work in other time zones, so this way of working is routine for us.

Day to day, they report directly to you. They join your standups, work inside your tools and repositories, and take direction from your product and engineering leads, just like your own staff. This is the core of staff augmentation: you keep full control of priorities and the codebase. Creiden handles the administrative side, including contracts and HR, so you do not have to. We also stay in touch with you and the developer throughout the engagement, so small issues are raised early and fixed quickly. If you prefer us to manage the work end to end, a dedicated development team with a Creiden project manager is also available.

We work hard to get the match right from the start. You review profiles before anyone joins, and we share a written reason for every match we suggest. If a placement is still not working, tell us and we will replace the developer quickly and handle the handover, so your work keeps moving. We also check in regularly with both you and the developer, so fit problems are raised early instead of building up over months. This care is why our average engagement lasts 18 months. A good match saves you far more time than it takes to find, and we treat it that way.

Freelance platforms give you access to individuals who verify themselves. Staff augmentation through Creiden gives you vetted engineers, with a written reason for every match, backed by 15+ years of building products and 400+ delivered projects. We are accountable for every placement in a way a platform is not. If someone leaves or is not the right fit, we handle the replacement and the handover, so your project keeps moving. Our engineers also have the support of a wider team, so they can get a second opinion on architecture, security, or design when needed. You get the flexibility of freelancers with the reliability of a company.

With staff augmentation, our engineers join your team and work under your direction. You set the priorities, run the sprints and own the codebase day to day. With outsourcing, you hand us a defined project and we manage delivery end to end, from planning to launch. Staff augmentation suits companies that have an in-house team and need more hands or a missing skill. Outsourcing suits companies without a technical team, or with a project they want fully handled. Many clients start with one model and move to the other as their needs change, and we support both.

Because we treat staff augmentation as a matching problem, not a numbers game. We place people we would hire ourselves, stay involved throughout the engagement, and bring 15+ years of product-building experience to every recommendation. So far we have placed 20+ engineers, with an average engagement of 18 months and under two weeks from approval to first day. We have helped product teams, from early-stage startups to listed companies, grow their capacity without growing their hiring overhead. Our engineers work across Laravel, React, Next.js, Node.js, Flutter, React Native, and AI, so one partner can cover most of your stack.