Are you wondering how much staff augmentation costs? Do you want to save money?
You can use a staff augmentation partner to grow your in-house team and complete projects faster while prioritizing costs.
Are you wondering how much staff augmentation costs? Do you want to save money?
You can use a staff augmentation partner to grow your in-house team and complete projects faster while prioritizing costs.
A staff augmentation company can help you increase the number of in-house developers on your staff. IT staffing allows you to scale your software development business quickly. When you rent a developer from a staff augmentation firm, they hit the ground running on your project and waste no time getting things done.
When you use staff augmentation services you may find that you pay more at the start but in the long term, you are saving money because:
Staff augmentation provides you with a developer or a dedicated team of software engineers to do the job. These individuals are pre-vetted by us and we can vouch that they will do a great job for you.
Moreover, staff augmentation offers you the option to exchange any developer that may not be working out for a new software engineer that may be better suited for your project.
Additionally, you can add developers to your team with little to no hassle at any time. This can be a developer with a different tech stack or just more additional hands to do the work. Check out our guarantee to see what makes Swyply different from other staff augmentation vendors.
Before you have developers join your team you and the vendor will decide on a daily rate or monthly rate, as opposed to an hourly rate. At the end of each month, they will add up the number of days that the developer worked for you and send you an invoice.
The developer is available to you exclusively and works on your project 8 hours a day. They do not work for anyone else. The developer does not log hours with the staff augmentation company but they may log hours using a time management program in your company.
The developer uses the software that has been set up by the customer to work and carry out day-to-day tasks. Moreover, the customer supplies any additional software that the software engineer may need to do his or her job.
The costs of hiring tech talent using team augmentation services will vary depending on seniority and expertise level. Let us explain and break down the costs per hire.
The cost of hiring a Junior developer using staff augmentation is around $30 to $40 per hour. A junior developer typically possesses around 1 to 3 years of experience in a specific tech stack.
The cost of hiring a regular developer or a MID developer is around $40 to $60 per hour. This developer has around 3 to 5 years of experience in a given programming language.
The cost of hiring a senior developer or a tech leader will range from $60 to $90 per hour. A software developer with this level of seniority will typically have more than 5 years of experience in coding. Moreover, they will be able to help you in terms of managing certain tasks, consulting on technical solutions, etc. They can do more than just code your project.
The cost of hiring a development team varies, but typically if you want to hire 2 or more team members you will get a discount than if you were to just hire one software engineer.
Gain developers to extend your team within one week. Check out how the staff augmentation model, looks like on your end as the client:
Let the vendor know the developer skill set you need, your project description, and any other valuable details to help us extend your team. Also please specify whether you need one developer or more.
Based on that skill set, the company will look, within their team of developers, for people who match these needs. They may also look for Developers in partnering Software Houses for you.
Based on the information received from you, the staff aug company will provide you with a short list of candidates. For each candidate, you will receive a blind CV, to review. Based on these blind CVs, pick the top choices that you would like to interview.
Based on your choices, the staff aug company will schedule interviews for you and the software engineer candidates to meet via video chat. After the video chat, you can also ask programmers to carry out code tests. If not, highlight which programmers you would like to work with on your project.
At this stage, you have selected the developers that are right for you. Then you will finalize the contract that has the agreed-upon start date, the duration of the project, and the date of completion. Moreover, this contract will have details about the scope of work, the agreed-upon daily rate, and the number of working hours.
During this phase, Developers work on your project. You determine the methods of communication, organization, and workload. Software developers are available to you exclusively for the duration of the contract.
Typically, the staff augmentation vendor will reach out to you from time to time in order to check in. During this time, they may also enquire whether you have other project requirements needs such as additional developers.
A few weeks before the end of the staff augmentation partnership, they will reach out to you, to see if you want to extend the contract or has the project come to a close.
Our IT staff augmentation services are different because it gives you the opportunity to pick a software engineer or a remote team of programmers with a two-week trial period.
During this trial period, if, for whatever reason, one of our IT specialists, is not the right fit, you have two options.
We try to ensure that the new talent will be the right fit for your existing in-house team. We provide ongoing support by doing monthly updates to confirm that our cooperation is heading in the right direction. Moreover, we enquire whether you need additional developers or a change in developers, this includes hiring a developer with a different tech stack.
Here are some frequently asked questions about the staff augmentation model and hiring the right candidates to join your development team.
Learn MoreThere are numerous scenarios where taking advantage of a staff augmentation company will be beneficial to your business goals. Some of them include:
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Yes, you can absolutely use staff augmentation services for both short-term and longer projects. There are benefits to each form. Software developers can work with your team for a minimum of 3 months. However, many companies love long-term projects, because software coders get to know you and your project in-depth and therefore can be more productive.
This varies, however, we can have a developer ready to go and join your team within one week. In some scenarios, it may take up to 30 days, but these are extreme circumstances where our developers need to finish up previous projects.
Staff augmentation refers to the process of adding temporary, short-term employees to a workforce. Managed services is a term used to describe a type of outsourcing that involves an organization contracting with a third-party company to perform certain services on its behalf. Staff augmentation and managed services are often used interchangeably in the staffing industry, but they are actually two very different types of staffing.
I cannot speak more highly of the Swyply developers. They have been incredible in how fast they delivered extremely high-quality code, with little to no need for QA. Not only did they deliver on everything that we had spec’ed out, but they also implemented significant improvements on their own. Cannot recommend them enough!
Dan PilatCo-Founder at The Decision Lab
Swyply developers are great to work with, reliable, effective, and high quality. Their communication and responsiveness are excellent and we’ve really valued working with them. Highly recommended!
Gordon McLachlanManaging Director of Primate
Swyply developers have always been a pleasure to work with. They listen carefully to the project requirements, but also offer invaluable feedback and suggestions. I found Swyply efficient, reliable and professional.
Jowita EmbertonCEO & Founder at Brandpa
Staff augmentation is the perfect solution to grow your team while focusing on core business goals.