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IT staff augmentation services add vetted engineers to your team for as long as you need them, working under your direction in your tools and sprints. SoluLab provides developers, QA analysts, and DevOps and AI engineers for funded startups, founders and SMBs, starting at $25 an hour.
SoluLab's IT staff augmentation services supply vetted software engineers, QA analysts, and DevOps and AI specialists who join your team full-time, part-time, or hourly. They work under your direction, in your repositories and sprints, so you close skill gaps and add capacity without the cost and delay of permanent hiring.
That need to ship faster than they can recruit
With a technical lead but too few hands
Running a digital transformation project without a large in-house team
That need one specialist skill, such as AI or blockchain, for a few months
IT staff augmentation is a hiring model where you add external engineers to your own team for a fixed period. You keep control of priorities, tools, and code. The provider handles recruiting, vetting, payroll, and replacement of people, so you add someone with the right skills without a permanent hire.
A deadline your team can't meet alone, such as a launch, a funding milestone, or a client delivery
A skill gap in AI, blockchain, DevOps, or a specific framework that you need for months, not years
A hiring freeze or slow recruiting while the roadmap keeps moving
A short project where a permanent hire would cost more than the work is worth
SoluLab provides six types of augmented talent: software developers for web and mobile, AI and machine learning engineers, blockchain developers, QA analysts and test engineers, DevOps and cloud engineers, and complete dedicated teams. Each engineer is vetted, interviewed by you, and works in your tools on your schedule.
Our dedicated developers cover front-end, back-end, full stack, and mobile work, and join your sprints within 1 day to 2 weeks. They follow your code reviews, branching rules, and release process from the first commit.
Augment your team with AI developers who build LLM applications, AI agents, retrieval systems, and predictive models. Everyone has hands-on AI project experience and works on your data, inside your own environment.
Our blockchain developers build smart contracts, wallets, and tokenization platforms for Web3 products. They work across Solidity, Ethereum, and Hyperledger Fabric, with every contract tested before mainnet release.
Quality analysts run manual, automated, and load tests to improve release quality without expanding your permanent team. They plug into your CI pipeline, so every build is checked before it reaches customers.
DevOps and cloud engineers set up CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and monitoring on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. They also keep cloud costs in check as your traffic and team grow.
A dedicated remote team of developers, QA, and a team lead can own a full module or product under your direction. Teams work through SoluLab's offshore development model, with daily, weekly, or monthly reporting to you.
Tell us the roles, stack, and length of the engagement. Within 48 hours you'll have vetted profiles to interview, with rates from $25 an hour.
A SoluLab staff augmentation engagement runs in five steps: you share the roles you need, receive vetted profiles within 48 hours, interview and choose your engineers, onboard them under a signed NDA, and start work. Engineers typically join your team within 1 day to 2 weeks of your first request.
No engineer starts until you have interviewed and approved them.
Roles, tech stack, seniority, time zone overlap, and the length in months.
Each profile shows skills, past projects, and availability.
You interview the shortlist and approve every engineer. Full-time hires include a free trial period.
We sign an NDA and a services agreement that assigns all work to you, then set up access to your repositories and tools.
Engineers join your sprints and report daily, weekly, or monthly. Scale the team up or down as the roadmap changes.
SoluLab's engineers come from its in-house team of 250+ developers, not from a new job posting, so there is no recruiting cycle to wait through. Contracts, access, and tooling are set up in parallel with interviews. In the eWallet case study below, two mobile engineers were working in the client's sprints within one week.
Every engineer goes through a structured vetting process before joining your team.
SoluLab's augmented engineers work across modern web, mobile, cloud, AI, and blockchain stacks, and they adapt to your tools. Engineers commit to your repositories, track work in your project tool such as Jira or Basecamp, and follow your branching, review, and release rules from the first day.
| Role | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Front end |
 React Next.js Angular Vue.js |
| Back end |
 Node.js Python Django FastAPI .NET Java Spring Boot |
| Mobile |
 Swift Kotlin React Native |
| Data |
 PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis |
| Cloud and DevOps |
 AWS Azure Google Cloud Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions |
| AI |
Python TensorFlow OpenAI APIs LangGraph |
| Blockchain |
 Solidity Ethereum Hyperledger Fabric
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| QA |
 Manual testing Automated test suites
 JMeter load testing |
SoluLab places augmented engineers in fintech, healthcare, consumer goods and retail, logistics, education, and insurance teams. Engineers with prior work in your industry get up to speed faster because they already know its regulations, data rules, and the systems your product must connect to.
Mobile, payments, and lending engineers who know KYC, banking APIs, and audit requirements, as in the eWallet and lending projects below.
Developers used to patient data rules, access logging, and health system integrations.
E-commerce, inventory, and customer app engineers who can scale a storefront for seasonal peaks.
Engineers for tracking, warehouse, and ERP integrations across supply chains.
Teams for learning platforms, school portals, and assessment tools.
Developers for policy, claims, and broker portals with multi-step approvals.
SoluLab has augmented fintech teams in three ways: two mobile engineers added to a startup's existing team for five months, an eight-person team that built a lending platform within budget and on schedule, and a seven-person team that launched a trading platform MVP in three months.
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A Northern European fintech startup needed mobile engineers with fintech experience to finish a family eWallet faster. We placed a senior iOS developer and a mid-level Android developer, who joined the client's backend, design, QA, and leadership team within one week and followed its weekly grooming and two-week sprints.
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A fintech startup with decades of financial services experience wanted to replace slow, manual small-business lending with a fully digital process. SoluLab supplied a complete eight-person team that built the iOS app, admin module, and back office, with automated KYC through Experian, DocuSign agreements, and an AI credit scoring model.
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A wealth management firm with a 20-year-old trading strategy needed to turn it into a product its clients could use themselves. A seven-person SoluLab team built a SaaS web app where clients connect a brokerage account, set risk and leverage, and let the system trade for them automatically.
Tell us the roles and get vetted profiles within 48 hours.
Get Vetted Engineer ProfilesSoluLab's IT staff augmentation services cost $25 to $49 an hour, as listed on Clutch and GoodFirms, depending on seniority, skill, and engagement model. You can hire engineers full-time, part-time, or hourly, with a 2-month minimum and monthly billing. Fixed monthly quotes are available for longer engagements.
Pricing varies by seniority, skill, and engagement model.
Dedicated engineering support for continuous product development.
Ongoing product work
Add targeted expertise while keeping your existing team in place.
A specialist skill alongside your team
Adapt engineering capacity to changing project requirements.
Variable workloads
A senior engineer costs more per hour but usually needs less direction.
AI and blockchain specialists sit at the top of the band.
Longer engagements qualify for fixed monthly quotes.
Augmenting your team through SoluLab is faster than in-house hiring and more reliable than freelancers. SoluLab engineers start in 1 day to 2 weeks, against 4 to 6 weeks for an in-house hire and 1 to 12 weeks for a freelancer. You also avoid recruiting costs and keep one accountable provider.
A dedicated engineering partner for flexible team growth.
Build your team through direct recruitment and employment.
Engage individuals for specific tasks or project needs.
US pay figure: US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Chintan leads SoluLab's engineering teams across AI, blockchain, IoT, and enterprise software, after about a decade at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President."
SoluLab walked us through the development process, created a prototype, incorporated our feedback, and turned it into a working product. Their team was proactive and helped us navigate the technical complexities.
Our challenge was creating a DeFi ecosystem where NFT transactions could be backed by greater trust and transparency. SoluLab helped us bring together the NFT protocol, NFTY token, USD-backed stablecoin, and reputation layer into a cohesive platform. Their team understood the intersection of DeFi and digital assets and translated that into a practical product.
The team took the time to understand our goals instead of simply executing tasks. They built the core product, integrated third-party tools and APIs, and helped improve the user experience.
Staff augmentation means adding external professionals to your team for a set period to fill skill gaps or add capacity. They work under your direction, while the provider handles recruiting, vetting, and payroll. It lets you add someone with the right skills without a permanent hire.
IT staff augmentation is staff augmentation for technology roles: developers, QA analysts, DevOps, AI, and data engineers. The engineers join your sprints and use your tools and repositories, so the work stays in your hands while a partner such as SoluLab supplies and manages the people.
With staff augmentation, you add engineers to your own team and direct their work. With outsourcing, you hand a defined project to a vendor, who manages the team and delivers the result. Augmentation keeps control with you. Outsourcing moves delivery responsibility to the vendor.
Staff augmentation adds people you manage, usually for a set number of months. Managed services hand an ongoing function, such as infrastructure or support, to a provider that is accountable for agreed service levels. You buy hours with augmentation and outcomes with managed services.
Consultants advise on what to do, such as a strategy or architecture, and often leave before it is built. Augmented engineers do the hands-on work inside your team. Many companies use both: a consultant to set direction, then augmented engineers to deliver it.
SoluLab sends vetted profiles within 48 hours, and engineers typically join your team within 1 day to 2 weeks. That compares with 4 to 6 weeks for a typical in-house hire, because SoluLab draws on an in-house team rather than starting a new search.
The minimum is 2 months for full-time, part-time, and hourly models. Most teams agree the length in months at the start and extend as the roadmap needs, with billing on the first day of each month.
SoluLab's rates run from $25 to $49 an hour, as listed on Clutch and GoodFirms. The rate depends on seniority, skill, and engagement model. AI and blockchain specialists sit at the higher end, and fixed monthly quotes are available for longer engagements.
You do. Every SoluLab engagement starts with an NDA and a services agreement that assigns all work product to you from the first commit. Engineers work in your repositories and cloud accounts, or in access-controlled SoluLab environments if you prefer.
Full-time engagements start with a free trial period, so fit problems surface early. If an engineer still isn't right, tell your account manager and SoluLab proposes a replacement from its in-house team.